Photo: kelsonik / Instagram
This year, the mid-size pickup truck sector is heating up all over the planet. In America, there's an all-new 2024 Toyota Tacoma looking forward to keeping its sales crown, and in far-away places like Thailand or Australia, a new Mitsu is duking it out with rivals.
Although it's a forbidden fruit in the United States, the sixth-generation Mitsubishi Triton (L200) sounds quite enticing for North America, too. It's larger than the outgoing model and also features an entirely different style that emphasizes robustness more than anything else. Hey, and we should all remember that Mitsubishi even tested its all-new truck in America late last year. Some prototypes were spotted stateside.
Unfortunately, so far, the global rollout only includes places like Thailand (where it's also produced), as well as many other ASEAN and Oceania markets. For example, we already know that after 12 years of absence on the market, Japan will get a taste of the new Triton (also known as L200 in other regions) sometime in early 2024. Also, around that same time – in February 2024, to be more precise – Australia dealerships will get their stocks filled with the new iteration of the mid-size pickup truck.
All in all, the new generation is highly desirable – it has a completely new design, a modern interior with better appointments and more on-board technology, it's safer and more comfortable, and also has a newly developed 2.4-liter turbodiesel mill under the hood with three options – 148, 181, and 201 horsepower plus up to 470 Nm (347 lb-ft) of torque. As such, no wonder its capabilities have increased, including its braked tow rating that's now 400 kg (882 lbs.) higher than before, at 3,500 kg (7,716 pounds).
Naturally, that attracted much attention – including from across the imaginative realm of digital car content creators. For example, Nikita Chuicko, the virtual artist better known as kelsonik on social media, probably thought now was the right CGI time to fiddle with the newly introduced truck and bestow his signature 'Shadow Line' transformation upon it.
Essentially, this is a de-chroming procedure, and it's widely used by custom and personalization houses to achieve a desirable 'murdered-out' look in combination with an all-black paint or wrap job. Here the digital project doesn't reach as far because this Mitsubishi Triton is dark gray, not black – but you get the point, especially after the pixel master also matched the menacing appearance with much more prominent, black aftermarket wheels.
All in all, this really isn't a bad attitude on behalf of the virtual Mitsubishi Triton with 'Shadow Line' and matching aftermarket wheels. Too bad it's merely wishful thinking, though, as we think that at least some of its potential rivals on the US market would tremble a little at the sight of something like this.
Unfortunately, so far, the global rollout only includes places like Thailand (where it's also produced), as well as many other ASEAN and Oceania markets. For example, we already know that after 12 years of absence on the market, Japan will get a taste of the new Triton (also known as L200 in other regions) sometime in early 2024. Also, around that same time – in February 2024, to be more precise – Australia dealerships will get their stocks filled with the new iteration of the mid-size pickup truck.
All in all, the new generation is highly desirable – it has a completely new design, a modern interior with better appointments and more on-board technology, it's safer and more comfortable, and also has a newly developed 2.4-liter turbodiesel mill under the hood with three options – 148, 181, and 201 horsepower plus up to 470 Nm (347 lb-ft) of torque. As such, no wonder its capabilities have increased, including its braked tow rating that's now 400 kg (882 lbs.) higher than before, at 3,500 kg (7,716 pounds).
Naturally, that attracted much attention – including from across the imaginative realm of digital car content creators. For example, Nikita Chuicko, the virtual artist better known as kelsonik on social media, probably thought now was the right CGI time to fiddle with the newly introduced truck and bestow his signature 'Shadow Line' transformation upon it.
Essentially, this is a de-chroming procedure, and it's widely used by custom and personalization houses to achieve a desirable 'murdered-out' look in combination with an all-black paint or wrap job. Here the digital project doesn't reach as far because this Mitsubishi Triton is dark gray, not black – but you get the point, especially after the pixel master also matched the menacing appearance with much more prominent, black aftermarket wheels.
All in all, this really isn't a bad attitude on behalf of the virtual Mitsubishi Triton with 'Shadow Line' and matching aftermarket wheels. Too bad it's merely wishful thinking, though, as we think that at least some of its potential rivals on the US market would tremble a little at the sight of something like this.
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