Found news about Ralliart release in Japan
http://carscoop.blogspot.com/2008/07...art-240hp.html
And also confirmed it at mistubishi's Japan website
http://www.mitsubishi-motors.co.jp/g...tis/index.html

 

Interested to see how it sells there over the next month or two.

They really need to get rid of that button on the trunk and just make it clean. The trunk button on the key fob should be adequate.

 

i like how the tail lamps are clear instead of the full red...then again that white one on the jap site under styling looks like a mazda3 from the back

 

OMG.....the white Ralliart Lancer looks so hot...

 

Interesting they dont have the recaro's or steering wheel or spoiler or..

 

That's because its all optional add ons

 

one more link

http://www.zerotohundred.com/2008/au...rtis-ralliart/

My only problem with these is don`t like the gears, i prefer the old school shifting.

 

Looks like the starting price for a base model of around $27.5 is spot on. The non-recaro seats don't look that bad either. The bolstering seems pretty good. But the Recaros are too good to pass up. Sat in them a few times in my friends X and I know I want them for my RA.

 

This is really a great idea for Mitsu IMO, but the base price is still kind of high. What would a fully loaded Ralliart cost? Add the wing, the Recaro's, the steering wheel, and I bet you're pretty close to base GSR territory. Above $30K, then you'd have to be crazy to get this over the X.

 

Exaclty they need to drop the lowest lancer model and sell the GTS model as base lancer.. then start the ralliart at $25K full loaded at $29K.. mitsu will be back ontop if they do that but i know they wont...

 

I got a feeling that the evo steering wheel will not be an option for some reason and that the Recaro + Rear wing will be in 1 single upgrade package.

Also, the seat's pretty disappointing. If you guys have a look at the mitsubishi japan site, the seats on the ralliart is exactly the same as the garden variety lancer. I will seriously doubt a normal lancer's seat to be anywhere near supportive. But then again, it might be a good news for all as one can always save the recaro package money and buy a real bucket seat (or anything better than the factory recaro) at a lower price.

 

First thing i'd do is remove that flare kit and put it in the trunk.. Knowing the idiots that sit in my car they'd get bored and start playing with it.

Interior looks like, hate the Mazda looking rear though. Otherwise I'd rock one. What's the price of one of these compared to a fully loaded wrx?

 

Please reread the articles and you will find they are only talking about the Japanse version. In Japan look like the evo steering wheel and the GTS wing are options.

On the USDM version the evo steering wheel and the GTS wing are standard. The Recaro seats, Rockford sound system, and the HID headlights will be a package bundled as one.

 

Looks like an Edsel.

 

Will a sunroof be bundled with the recaro's and rockford??