I agree with you. I do think with proper power to weight ratio a turbo diesel or even a direct injection turbo gas engine could accomplish the the same goals but with a better outcome

 

GDI Mivec turbo should have been best step forward while retaining or lowering the current weight of the chassis.
However big heads don't seem to share our vision. We shall see if some news appear about new model this month, regular Lancer is supposedly scheduled for 2014, so we should have some info about it in some time in next following months(also I think that currently diesel in this story is not achievable, especially that they didn't use Mivec system in new outlander diesel, in;for me unfamiliar reasons), I hope that also that new outlander phev is refference to new evo.

 

2003-2005. Evo 8 3 years
2006-2007. Evo 9 2 years
2008-2013? Evo X 6 years+

Guess the XI will last 10 years or so

 

I don't see it that way. I also don't think there was an 07 evo. The measure of time should be by platform ; ct9a 2001 - 2006, cz4a 2008- present. If you look at it this way most evo platforms last about 5 years with a possible face lift here and there.

 

I Guess Ill be sticking with my IX but still gonna go test drive the XI once its out

 

i just hope it will stay with the same design or close but less weight and all that mitsu techno wizzardry

 

I love the freak-outs going on in this thread.

If catered to the marginal Evo customers, they'd be out of the car business faster than you can say AWD. What keeps a car company's R & D budget healthy? Sales. Sales of no, no not the Evo; that's a halo-type car that gets people in the showroom. The sales of plain-jane lancers and outlanders is where makes a profit. The whining that it's not going to be using dated, inefficient engine technology is short-sighted and selfish (and probably most of the guys complaining can't even afford an Evo).

The bottom-line is that dozens of Mitsubishi fans here are writing off a car which hasn't even had its power plant confirmed yet, let alone begun development - Masuko said simply "I have set the goal of developing a sporting car featuring electric power" - not "I'm going to make a diesel-hybrid that performs like a Prius". The assumptions going on are pretty insane.

could produce a beastly hybrid or diesel-hybrid, AWD sport sedan that gets great fuel economy and smokes around a track (BMW M550XD, Acura NSX anyone?). Maybe it'll be a total flop - who knows? I can't predict the future, no one can. If anything, it certainly sounds like Mitsubishi is *evolving* its platforms... Let's see what innovations and evolutions they can produce.

 

i think that much of what you said in here has already been said in other posts in the last 41 pages of this thread, some of it several times over. thats why this thread has become painful to even go back to.

one thing i dont agree with you on is that the development of this car has not begun yet, unless there will be no evo 11.

 

I can't see the EVOs layout without three electric traction motors, one in the front (mated to the diesel/gas) and two in the rear. Otherwise, it will be an unbalanced AWD system. The main question is how powerful the electric traction motors will be. I can't see them being anything less than 60 kW (like the Outlander PHEV motors), which means 180 kW + whatever the diesel output is (probably enough to balance the system and run the front motor as a generator).

You could, but the car would be slow as crap. You might as well just stick to an EVO X rather than spending several grand to make your ~ 4 second 0-60 mph car a < 150 hp diesel that would be lucky to get to 60 mph in under 10 seconds.

 

And for those of you who don't believe that Mitsubishi has already started development and is heavily invested in electric vehicles and hybrids, this article is from October of 2011:

http://www.greencarcongress.com/2011...-20111006.html

In other words, they are expecting enough capacity to make 50,000 electric vehicles a year.

Also, more information on Toshiba's titanium lithium oxide (TLO) cells, which might be the battery of choice for the EVO XI:

http://e2af.com/review/081218.shtml

 

there was an '07 LANCER EVOLUTION IX, it just wasn't sold in the US.

 

I think they will go for GS YUASA batteries, which are proven in MIEV and in Pikes Peak and I think regular GS YUASA batteries are the ones that come stock in Mitsubishi. So I don't think they will drop the YUASA batteries all of a sudden.

 

While newer diesels are awesome, I don't think this will turn out well.

 

Looking forward to seeing what they have up their sleeves.

 

Lithium Energy Japan makes the batteries for GS YUASA. I'm assuming that GS YUASA is just the front/label company, because they have other branches doing R&D, lead acid batteries, etc.

Still, the Toshiba TLO batteries are interesting, and because Mitsubishi is buying so many of them, they must be planning to use them for something. They have faster charge and discharge rates than the lithium ion, so they would be the right choice for higher performing applications.