2011 Mitsubishi ASX Video Review

If you'd have asked a car enthusiast ten years ago what a compact crossover was, they would have probably looked back at you with glazed over eyes, slightly confused. But fast forward to the present day and the crossover marketplace is bursting at the seams with nearly all major manufacturers - BMW (X1), Volkswagen (Tiguan), Nissan (Qashqai) - involved in the competition for consumer attention.

So what exactly is a compact crossover? It's what happens when you squash together an SUV, an estate and something sporty too; combine these three things together and you're left with a vehicle that sits higher up off the road, that looks sleek and stylish but that maintains the type of practicality that car buyers need. The auto world's version of the Swiss Army Knife if you will.

Mitsubishi came to Car Throttle with their Active Sports Crossover, the 2011 ASX, to see what we made of the vehicle and to see whether it could keep up with the market players. And so we decided to bring out the big boys (that's the affectionate group name we give to our video recording equipment...I know, we're geeks).

But, in order to do full justice to this black beauty, we decided to throw something a little different at it and to see how it would perform on an activities day outing. A road trip from Central London out to the British countryside. How did the car cope? Hit the link below:

Car Throttle: 2011 Mitsubishi ASX Review

For more images of the 2011 Mitsubishi ASX please have a browse through our gallery below, and as always, we welcome your comments, opinions and thoughts and questions which we will do our best to answer.

2011 Mitsubishi ASX Gallery