It's a sad reality that the common joe wants the only performance in a car to be its fuel maximization. There just aren't enough of us that want Evo's / STI nowadays. In the city that I'm from, there's a on going trend for younger kids to take busses right after high school with an unlimited bus riding pass as part of the college tuition. Our city mayor has torn down full car lanes and put in its place bike lanes right into the heart of downtown as well as getting your car Ticketed and towed for 7 days and up to $2k in fines and fees if you go over 40km/h the speed limit.

I'm thankful that we go the Evo X as the last salute to the whole model line up, as I'm not anticipating a XI. If the next model comes out with the name "Evo" you can be sure that it's going to be a hybrid.

 

You should be anticipating an XI, and they said it would be a hybrid...this isn't speculation anymore....I'm not sure why that matters. At the end of the day, if it performs better than it's predecessors, I'll be happy...and if it does that while getting better fuel economy, that's icing on the cake.

 

^ this.

 

Pic of the nose reminds me of an older Saturn. I hope the full car looks much better than that.

 

Mitsubishi is one of the largest corporations in the world it includes:

• Asahi Glass Co.
• Astro Holdings Sdn Bhd
• The Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ
• Kirin Brewery Co., Ltd.
• Meiji Yasuda Life Insurance Company
• Mitsubishi Corporation
• Mitsubishi Aircraft Corporation
• Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
• Mitsubishi Estate Co.
• Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd.
• Mitsubishi Materials Corporation (MMC)
• Mitsubishi Logistics Corporation
• Mitsubishi Motors (Automobile manufacturing and sales)
• Mitsubishi Paper Mills, Ltd.
• Mitsubishi Plastics, Inc.
• Mitsubishi Rayon Co., Ltd.
• Mitsubishi Research Institute, Inc.
• Mitsubishi Shindoh Co., Ltd.
• Mitsubishi Steel Mfg. Co., Ltd.

• MSSC Inc.

• Mitsubishi UFJ Trust and Banking Corporation (part of Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group)
• Mitsubishi UFJ Securities
• Nikon Corporation
• Nippon Oil Corporation
• NYK Line (Nippon Yusen Kabushiki Kaisha)
• P.S. Mitsubishi Construction Co., Ltd.
• Tokio Marine & Nichido Fire Insurance Co., Ltd.

 

And yes, Kirin and Nikon are Mitsu brands.

 

Yeah I know, I've been there most every year since 2000. I just was hoping they'd show up even if only with a few cars like last time. It's not like Kia had anything new to show off but they were there in full force. Mazda was pretty much all old stuff too other than the recently released CX5

 

They also make those huge fans that generate energy which I notice one day in my science textbook had the Logo on the side. Their HUGE! just the cars are lacking...

 

the only mitsu's i have ever liked are the AWD Turbo's everything else has kinda suxed, my buddy's family had a galant and a monterro both fell apart in a few years. My evo and former lancer though never have fallen apart( i assume the lancer didn't it was sold years ago).
Mitsu needs better quality to be taken seriously, i remember when i sold used cars every automatic 90's mitsu had trans issues.

 

mitsu shd do to the evo what ford did to the mustangs now, bring a classic desgin into the modern era.. starting with the evo 3

 

+1

 

Unfortunately, to most people (you know, the 99%ers of the buyers market), the older mustangs are known as "classic". Older mitsubishi lancers are known as... crap..

 

At least they had that Black Evo X, last year they didn't even have an Evo there.

They should make a new eclipse based on the next lancer chassis. The outlander and lancer are the best cars Mitsubishi makes right now.

 

That looks like a newer Delica. Its their version of a 4WD minivan. We had one in Japan and it was pretty friggin sweet

 

I too would hate to see them fall out of the US. Plus they do make so many other things that I wouldnt understand why they would pull just that part out but I could see it happening. Just hope it doesnt