EVO X FQ-400: USA vs UK
Jun 23, 2010, 01:13 PM
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Unless that car has a 
badge on the trunk, in which case your warranty is essentially useless from the second you sign on the line. I had 2 weeks of hoops to jump through to get a warranty fix of my SEATS approved on a 100% stock car. They took pictures of everything from the bottom of car/engine bay down to the tread of my tires.
Note: They eventually decided to cover it, but insisted they needed to keep my car for 2 weeks to have it shipped (and by this I'm sure they meant "driven") to an upholstery repair company. This for a 45 minute job. I ended up doing it myself.
badge on the trunk, in which case your warranty is essentially useless from the second you sign on the line. I had 2 weeks of hoops to jump through to get a warranty fix of my SEATS approved on a 100% stock car. They took pictures of everything from the bottom of car/engine bay down to the tread of my tires.Note: They eventually decided to cover it, but insisted they needed to keep my car for 2 weeks to have it shipped (and by this I'm sure they meant "driven") to an upholstery repair company. This for a 45 minute job. I ended up doing it myself.
Sep 6, 2010, 02:48 PM
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The Brit's, through Mitsu, now have, for 09, bumped up the FQ 360 to the FQ 400. The latter has 403 bhp (crank) with suspension upgrades and sells for 49,999 british pounds or $82,203.66. Now I think the cost of a vehicle in Britian vs here is ~25-30% more (due to volume sales and other factors); so we are talking somewhere around $57.5-$61.6K equivalency. Now if one takes the base GSR in the US with suspension, basic bolt ons (CAI, TBE) and tune we are talking about ~$41K. This means you can obtain the same performance EVO X in the US for between $16.5-$20.6K less. My point, you ask? Our aftermarket vendors are ten's of thousands dollar less than the aquisition of same through a dealership in Great Britain although they have a warranty for the FQ's. That said, the USA is still a steal when it comes to enhansing the performance window of ur car.
Later, Ken
http://www.autoexpress.co.uk/carrevi...LC-Newsletters
Later, Ken
http://www.autoexpress.co.uk/carrevi...LC-Newsletters
GSR is 5 speed standard FQ-400 is 6 Speed Standard ( $$$$ ) ( the the SST transmission) better suspenssion ( at least 1200 USD) big break kit ( 1200 USD ) Bigger turbo ( 2000 USD ) Pistons ( ??? USD ) TBE ( 1500 USD ) CAI ( 600 USD ) Rims Tyres, Carbon all over ( weight reduce ) and bla bla bla !!!
Plus the re mapping ( Ecutek is around 600 USD )
and also a Warranty on the Car !!
don't think it a GSR at this point !!!
Sep 6, 2010, 11:49 PM
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too bad it's such a pain to import that shift knob and ebrake cuz it looks sick. i'd be interested in getting the fq360 pieces seeing as how they're cf wrapped but don't have the fq400 logo. way better than the options we have here in the US. also digging the white stitched interior plus leather!
Sep 7, 2010, 03:19 PM
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Well, my experience with my Evo (and my Eclipse have been different.) I recently had my wing replaced under warranty, no problems no issues no hassles - so that's four times my Evo has had some thing done under warranty and nobody gave me **** about my mods, albeit minor, light ones.
Sep 8, 2010, 03:15 PM
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http://www.thesupercars.org/mitsubis...tion-x-fq-400/
this part is the one ! " The Evolution X FQ-400 features 6-Speed manual transmission and the gear shifts can be performed easily and quickly even at higher speeds" and as i see you like to look at picture ! see it's a FQ-400!!!
Sep 8, 2010, 06:01 PM
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if you like bling then the FQ is worth a money. If you go for performance then the FQ is a waste of money. Safely to reach the 400 bhp, and the other performance enhancing , is not a big deal so as money. Just a stock evo X with only a safe tune you reach or do over 330 bhp... So just think about the FQ 320 rip of... LOL
You pay a lot for the FQ name and the reputation.
You pay a lot for the FQ name and the reputation.
Sep 8, 2010, 06:10 PM
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PLEASE before telling people to reserch do yours first :
http://www.thesupercars.org/mitsubis...tion-x-fq-400/
this part is the one ! " The Evolution X FQ-400 features 6-Speed manual transmission and the gear shifts can be performed easily and quickly even at higher speeds" and as i see you like to look at picture ! see it's a FQ-400!!!
http://www.thesupercars.org/mitsubis...tion-x-fq-400/
this part is the one ! " The Evolution X FQ-400 features 6-Speed manual transmission and the gear shifts can be performed easily and quickly even at higher speeds" and as i see you like to look at picture ! see it's a FQ-400!!!
so anyway here is one for you:
http://www.mitsubishipress.co.uk/pre...Q_400_pack.pdf
The EVO X FQ400 is 5 speed . The regular GSR 5 speed tranny.
Rob
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