It only took a few days with the Mitsubishi Outlander PHEV to work out that I needed to ask an expert about what all the controls did.

Most customers would get a handover from their supplying dealer. Unfortunately, this wasn’t a possibility for me, so off to Mitsubishi HQ I went to chat to product manager Keir Bartlett.

This proved very enlightening. And I’m now armed with all the information I need, although there was one gem of extra knowledge: if you press and hold the button that turns on the adaptive cruise control, it transforms into regular cruise – the type I much prefer.