Mitsubishi Freeca


The Mitsubishi Freeca is a compact MPV and pickup truck designed by Mitsubishi Motors and China Motor Corporation for the Asian market, and built in China, Indonesia, Taiwan, Vietnam and the Philippines, where it is known as the Mitsubishi Adventure.

Overview

The Mitsubishi Freeca was first released on 11 September 1997, and the 50,000th Adventure was manufactured in the Philippines plant in March 2005. In the Philippines, the Adventure was given major redesigns in 2001 and then 2004, then a minor facelift in late 2009, then a final minor-redesign of the tailights in 2017. Trims include the GLS, GLX, and Super Sport. Sometime after the major-redesign model was released in 2004. The original pre-facelift model was released in 2006 as the Adventure GX. They were both sold alongside with the facelifted model. It was essentially a stripped down Adventure meant for commercial or fleet use. the "GX" serves as the most basic base-model of the Adventure lineup. Another version of the Adventure GX, called the Adventure TX, was made specifically to be used for taxicabs/UV Express use. Although the TX is seen more of a trim on the Adventure GX rather than another version of the car. Sales ended in 2017, but few remaining units were sold until 2018 in some dealerships.
The vehicle is also known as the Mitsubishi Kuda in Indonesia where it was locally manufactured by PT Krama Yudha Tiga Berlian and marketed by PT Srikandi Diamond Motors until 2005. "Kuda" means horse in Indonesian. It is marketed as the Mitsubishi Jolie in Vietnam. The model name "Freeca" is coined from "free" and "ca", the Taiwanese for vehicle. Badge engineered Taiwanese-made Freecas were also briefly available in the South African market, locally assembled in Cape Town and sold as the Africar Landio and Africar Jockey.

Soueast

From 2001 to 2017, the Freeca was rebadged by the Soueast brand for China.

Conclusion

The last Adventure rolled off the production line on 10 December 2017 at the Greenfield Automotive Park, home to Mitsubishi Motors Philippines manufacturing plant and headquarters in Santa Rosa, Laguna, with Mitsubishi Motors ending production in the Philippine market due to the engine being Euro-2 compliant and some safety issues, effectively ending the 20-year production run. The Xpander, which is built at the Mitsubishi Motors Krama Yudha Indonesia manufacturing plant in Bekasi, West Java, was launched in the Philippines on 1 March 2018 as the replacement of the Adventure.

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Production

* Freeca and Zinger combined production figures