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Mitsubishi i-MiEV Cargo concept - Click above for high-res image gallery

You can make anything bigger and better if you just add a hump, and that's what Mitsubishi has done to its i-MiEV to create the i-MiEV Cargo.

For those who find Ford's Transit Connect (http://www.autoblog.com/model/transit+connect) simply too monstrous and don't want to pay for gas - like, oh, a commercial concern in Tokyo - Mitsu's battery-powered i-MiEV could be the perfect solution. Growing only in height compared to its hatchback sibling, the thing is tiny but still packs 62 cubic feet of cargo space in its Quasimodo back end - that's a little less than half the Transit Connect's space. That said, we have to wonder how much a full cargo load will negatively effect the i-MiEV's range and overall performance.

Read all about the Cargo's big smallness in the press release after the jump (http://www.autoblog.com/2009/10/20/mitsubishi-i-miev-cargo-tokyo-2009/#continued), and have a gander at it in the gallery of high-res photos below.


Gallery: Tokyo 2009: Mitsubishi i-MiEV Cargo (http://www.autoblog.com/photos/tokyo-2009-mitsubishi-i-miev-cargo/low/)
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