Not everybody needs or wans what a real Evo offers. Things like expensive brake jobs. High insurance. Police attention. Larger speeding tickets. A small trunk with no folding seats.

 

I agree with that, but the speeding tickets is something anyone can prevent in any car. Anyone coming down to the Ralliart thinking the Evo experience is going to be dissapointed, my difficulty here is trying not to see the Ralliart as a mini-Evo. That is the reputation stain that the Evo has set into the other Lancers. We are all guilty of prejudice in that sense. I'm trying to set my mind in an "kick-*** tuned GTS" and be very impressed with everything.

I would have to have a DD car that I can have some fun driving on weekends and such. For some of us the Evo is just too far away. I could not possibly afford the monthly bills and the insurance on an Evo beast. Would I take one if I could afford it... maybe, but an Evo is the kind of car you don't suffer for if you take it out everyday.



Thun

 

You could add: poorer gas mileage, higher price, underbody aluminum prone to pitting in climates where they salt for snow/ice, crappy looking red-bordered taillights, windshield washer fluid in the trunk, nowhere to mount a front license plate (where required by law, it has to be put off to the side looking half-assed), no rotor glow orange colour, and probably a few other things too... particularly for the majority of us who will use the car for daily driving, where the Ralliart is a much more sensible car (but not too sensible... that's what the GTS is for).

 

i agree, knowing the sense of all this talk its almost sayin its a model lower than the X RS. thinking of it that way is kinda childish. forsure a better car than the last model. almost seems too good to be true...i have just as much hopes as i have doubts...we'll C, chow

 

thats y i got a mirage cough: evo cough..check my sig. i got everything you want. well...u know what i mean. AFFORDABLE.

 

I´m with u there, I mean, what kind of title is: A Lancer that doesnt suck?!

Super Street sucks.

 

^Yeah, Super Street is the ****iest car magazine I have ever read.

 

Ugh, but its still popular. They're just advertising stuff their own way I guess. The editors are kinda weird, I'll give you that.

 

did any one else notice that in the article it calls out a nav system with 40gig drive and traffic via Mitsu Diamond service? Sounds like they are updating the nav. I have the current 08 nav and it only has 30gig with no traffic option.

 

Yeah I noticed that too. I wouldn't put too much faith in what "Super Street" has to say though. The article was poorly written for starters, they gave us nothing that hasn't already been said about the Ralliart, they published the same tired old pictures, and they twice called the 4B11 the B411.

 

@ HudsonFalcon
True it just the part about the Diamond Lane Service for traffic that got me. That’s a detailed screw-up. I don't believe Mitsu ever had a service like that before and I doubt they planned ahead far enough to add that tech into our 08 nav and just haven’t utilized it yet.

 

The Diamond Lane Navigation is an available option, in fact I saw it on the Galant Ralliart. However, the tone of the article is so juvenile and the writing is so amatuer that their claim about it ending up in the Lancer RA is highly suspect.

 

I am a little older and do not see the point of spending any money on NAVI. Why not just get a portable and use it for years in every vehicle and save thousands in the process. Plus, how often do you really go somewhere and need directions?

 

I use my navi. every single day for my job but I see your point, most people don't get their monies worth from an in-dash system and would be better suited getting a $200 Garmin. The MMCS is so much more than just a digital map though.

 

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