When does the Mitsubishi Triton Raider go on sale in Australia?
The Mitsubishi Triton Raider is expected to reach showrooms from late May 2026. The flagship ute doesn’t come direct from Mitsubishi’s factory in Thailand. Instead, Thai-built GSR variants will be converted to Raider spec at Premcar’s ‘second stage’ manufacturing facilities in Melbourne once the customer places an order though a Mitsubishi dealer.
“We will only convert vehicles based on firm customer orders,” Mitsubishi Australia’s product strategy general manager, Bruce Hampel, told RACV. “It depends on where (customers) are around the country in terms of shipping channels, but it’s only about a week’s lead time from when we get orders to when we can convert. It depends on the number of orders, of course, but all things being equal it’s a one-to-two-day turnaround at Premcar.”
Premcar chief executive Bernie Quinn added that although there’s a theoretical cap on production, “we generally find a way – we’re very good at managing the ebbs and flows as demand peaks and troughs”.
“Let’s say, ideal scenario, that we (need to) double the volume after the first three months, we can easily manage that,” he said.
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How much does the 2026 Mitsubishi Triton Raider cost?
Official pricing for the 2026 Mitsubishi Triton Raider is still to be confirmed, but the flagship ute is expected to be priced from between $72,000 and $75,000, before on-road costs.
This is around the same mark as the previous-generation 2023 Mitsubishi Triton Xtreme, a limited-edition Aussie tough truck developed by Walkinshaw Automotive (priced from $71,990 plus ORCs), and will place the Raider close to the Toyota HiLux Rugged X (from $71,990 plus ORCs) and Ford Ranger Tremor (from $75,090 plus ORCs). The incoming new Nissan Navara Warrior – developed by Premcar – is also a key rival.
The Triton Raider is based on the MY26 Mitsubishi Triton GSR pick-up, which starts from $65,590 plus ORCs.
Mitsubishi Australia product strategy chief, Bruce Hampel, told RACV that the company was keen to compete at a higher level with a more versatile flagship vehicle in the market, where its competitors are doing brisk business of around 100-300 sales a month.
“To do that, (Raider) needed to be a full factory backed offering,” he said. “The product we needed to come up with had to be engineered to a level that we were comfortable with, and MMC were comfortable with, in terms of the quality of the engineering and the quality of the manufacturing control processes.”
With this achieved, the Triton Raider is a permanent model that’s available across the brand’s full 200-strong retail network and covered by Mitsubishi’s 10-year/200,000km new vehicle warranty, which is conditional on servicing at a Mitsubishi dealership for the duration. Otherwise, a five-year/100,000km factory warranty applies.
Mitsubishi says the Raider will not cost more to service than a regular 4×2 or 4×4 diesel Triton, both of which have 12-month/15,000km service intervals and average $695.30 per annum across 10 years/150,000km under the brand’s capped price servicing scheme (based on Triton MY25).
However, replacement costs for some parts, such as the Raider’s new tyres, will be more expensive.