Mitsubishi Australia has put a price on the Triton Raider and it lands at $74,990 plus on-road costs, $100 below the Ford Ranger Tremor MRLP. First deliveries from late May 2026, full national availability through June.

What Premcar actually changed

The Raider is built by Premcar in Epping, Melbourne, as a Secondary Stage Manufacturer to Mitsubishi's GSR base. The changes are specific, documented and demonstrably the result of 40,000 km of development plus 7,000 km of Australian outback testing including a run through the Flinders Ranges.

The chassis gets new Monroe dampers front and rear with larger pistons, more oil capacity, Raider-specific valving and an internal rebound spring up front. New softer, longer-travel front coil springs sit underneath. Longer progressive jounce bumpers handle the harder hits. Eighteen by 9.0-inch ROH Assault alloy wheels in Brushed Bronze wear Bridgestone Dueler A/T 002 tyres in 285/60R18. The visual identity is locked in with a heavy-duty red front underbody bash plate, a sports bar with red inserts, side protection bars with red inserts, Raider badging, bronze hub caps and Sandstorm side decals. Inside there are Raider-embroidered headrests and a numbered console plaque.

The net effect on the geometry is a 25 mm front lift (10 mm from the new springs and 15 mm from the wheel and tyre package), 15 mm of rear lift, and 20 mm of track width added at both ends. What is unchanged is the engine, the transmission, the 4x4 hardware and the factory safety suite. This is a chassis upgrade and a presence upgrade, not a powertrain reinvention.

The numbers that matter

The 2.4-litre bi-turbo diesel inline-four produces 150 kW and 470 Nm through a 6-speed automatic. Super Select II four-wheel drive runs with 2H, 4H, 4HLc and 4LLc modes, seven drive modes and a rear differential lock. Braked towing capacity is 3,500 kg. Payload is approximately 950 kg. Kerb weight is around 2,160 kg, roughly 60 kg over the GSR. The warranty is the 10-year conditional Diamond Advantage program. Mitsubishi has not yet published final approach and departure angles or ground clearance for the Raider, only the delta over the GSR. We expect ground clearance to land around 245 mm and approach to improve by a few degrees over the GSR's 31.

How it stacks up against the segment

The Triton Raider sits at $74,990 plus on-road costs. The Ford Ranger Tremor is $75,090 plus on-road costs with a 184 kW V6 and 600 Nm. The Toyota HiLux Rugged X is $71,990 plus on-road costs with 150 kW and 500 Nm. The Isuzu D-Max Blade is $76,990 drive-away with 140 kW and 450 Nm. All four tow 3,500 kg braked.

The Triton Raider does not win the power-and-torque league against the Ranger Tremor's V6 or the HiLux Rugged X's 500 Nm hybrid setup. What it brings is a chassis specifically engineered for Australian conditions, a price that undercuts the Ranger Tremor, and a wheel-and-tyre package that is already what most buyers would have changed first.

Triton 4x4 sales were up 18.7 per cent year-to-date through April 2026. The Raider is the spec the brand needed to keep that line going.

The verdict in one paragraph

Mitsubishi has not built a Ranger Raptor competitor. It has built a slightly lifted, properly-tyred, Aussie-tuned flagship that arrives at exactly the price the Tremor sits at. Whether that is enough to peel buyers off Ford depends on what the Tremor does at EOFY. Either way, the Triton has finally got a flagship variant that does not look out of place at the lookout next to a Wildtrak. That is a meaningful step up from where this nameplate sat twelve months ago.