Should You Buy a MITSUBISHI SHOGUN? (Test Drive & Review) *AKA PAJERO MONTERO*

Love these videos, you’ve captured a great gap in the market with these videos. Great work man!! 👍🏻

Hello guys. If you have to choose between this and prado 120 diesel with automatic gear box. Which one would you choose

They could redo the 2nd Gen - looked best.

How does this compare to the VW Amarok re comfort, handling and ride quality?

It's not a car It's a monster. I got 2006. VERY SATISFIED.

Great review. A little late on the post but pajeros are rocketing up in second hand value here in NZ as people now realise that they are a better vehicle than the equivalent Toyota offerings.
Grab one while you can as they are no longer available from new. And this is going to be one of those vehicles that “I wish I’d bought one “ you will regret not buying when you had the chance. 🤷🏻‍♂️

In the process of buying a shogan 2011 plate . It seemed like the smarter choice than the discovery 4 due to running costs and things that could go wrong. Do you have any advise about buying shogans that's not mentioned in the video. Thanks.

wanker...hahaha....

The King of desert!!!

I am proud to say that I drive a mint condition 1991 NG 4door V6 petrol here in Darwin in NT. I got very lucky when it came up for sale and pounced on it. It's just a fantastic, bulletproof simple car and I love it to death.

Grown up around the 3rd and 4th gen. And it's gotten so bad that nowadays both my dad and I drive one. My dads, which was used as a towing vehicle a lot, has now done over 500.000km and it's 15 years old. Still feels new, just needs good maintainance once a year and after that it's all good. The one I bought (after saving for ages as these things are still, 2nd hand and 15 years old, not cheap), lacks a rear bench, because I want to convert it into a camper like vehicle, to drive all around Europe. And when I was looking for a good car to build into a camper, I could simply not find anything coming close to what Pajero's offer: Reliability, range, comfort, offroading, towing, fuel efficiency, you name it. I kinda never want to drive anything else anymore, due to all the memories I've got with the car model and the trust I have in it to take me anywhere, anytime.

Matt, would YOU buy a Japanese imported vehicle?

In Iraq circa 03/04 the European close protection and intelligence teams used shoguns and land cruisers, and the yanks used Mercedes ml’s and g500s. Needless to say we were constantly helping them out with transportation issues lol.

Do you guys think 180.000 km is considered high for these cars? Talking about 3.2 diesel ones.

Great cars, I have a SWB 2 door diesel Montero in Spain and love it.

Sounds to scripted

Shogun? Does it worth, sir?

I Miss Pajero/Shogun 😭😭😭

Good review but why not take it off road, or at least on a farm track and get the tyres dirty? I'm in the market here in Australia and while you can get some from $10k AU they are high kays, over 300k km and some over 400k km! A good newer own with less kays will cost $20k and the best ones are 2 or 3 times that money now in 2023!

Got same on in Australia. Diesel auto. I put bullbar, lift kit and roof racks. Plus off-road tyres. I still get 10 litre per 100 around town. Though to remember is the best models are 2010 to 2016. Outside of that has a DPF and less power, less torque and more problems.

I haven’t had any issues. Just a egr code that fixed with manifold clean and catch can. Many people just block the erg off completely and put blanking plug to stop the engine codes.

They preform amazing off road as traction control is like twin diff locks. If you are not in LLrange, then be sure switch off the stability control if you off road doing sand or mud etc.

On the highway these do 200km/hour. I know because I had to overtake a road train and did it quick. My nay grief with the Pajero is not having decent under bonnet space fo second battery. But I use a smalller second.

Also most of us chuck the rear seats out and use the storage for other things. I got a fridge slide on top of a storage. Then other side still folds up to get into storage. Other people use it for second battery or water or fuel tank.

Definitely much better car than the equivalent Toyota Prado. Half the price, far more reliable and far more torque, power and towing capacity. In central Australia the Toyota D4D is renowned for cracking pistons because can’t handle the fuels.

On another note, I fit my 2005 Polaris phoenix quad bike in the rear also!! But with the middle row seats removed. Only takes around 10 minutes to unbolt.

What would you choose between the a
Shogun or a Land Cruiser?