all i gotta say is be patient for appox 6 month and see if we getting the real thing
or samply go to ei and stop arguing over rumors

 

I will agree 100% with limey on the auto off HID lights. I got the first car at my dealership. My dealer read the standard equipment to me and that was one of them...along with Brembos, custom Recarros, Enki rims and the Yoko tires. And NO he didn't read from the "tech maunal".

 

THANK YOU>>>> I am going to post the full feature list shortly.......by the way the product designation code is...LE-41B

 

Official information will be available from Jan. 1st. Leaked, but official information will be available at least a few days prior to that.

There will be no major surprises.

Cheers,

Paul Hansen

 

Thanks Paul you must be in the know if you are in Tokyo....say that rhymes

 

Ok, maybe I haven't gotten enough sleep, but are we speculating that the evo is going to have an open front differential or the 7's helical LSD. Mr. AWD brought it up about not knowing, but no one seems to have addressed what kind it will be. I don't want to think about the backlash if they actually bring one with an open front differential. So, can someone please give an affirmative either way?

e in la

 

There is no detailed info on the center or front diffs in that tech " training " manual. All this book represented were the features of the new EVO, it in no way was a rundown on vehicle repair. A true classroom instruction on the new vehicle will come in january and will be a 3 or 4 day class. Remember that this tech book was a prelimanary for the techs not the consumer.

 

sorry limey but your an idiot if you think their going to sell a non-AWD EVO

 

either that or your right and i'll eat my shoe

 

Please see "Standard Features" post on main board...

 

A very nice salesman quoted exact section of the true training manual to me about the front differential. It said absolutely nothing about it except that it was unservicable and gets replaced as a unit. And it calls the center diff a viscous coupling.. I didn't ask for a fax, because we had that dude on here who had the entire training manual... I hoped he would scan it for the forum for confirmation.

 

If the center diff was viscous coupling then no ACD for us... unless they redesigned it for the VIII.

Mark

 

That is the whole point. Mitsu didn't have a new VC center diff since TME and that is about three years ago. EVO 7 never had a VC center diff. Since the new one is so built off the EVO 7, it is hard to believe that they went and built a completely new unit just for the US market.

Also, if they are even thinking of bringing AYC later on as a feature then their ACD should be capable of handling US driving needs. ACD is about as half as simple as the AYC. It has only one set of the clutches in there (as opposed to the two sets that AYC has and the control circuit that goes with them). If they don't have an ACD capable of being driven the way we do here, than all this talk about the AYC is a BS.

Stay tuned for a couple of more weeks, I guess....


Mr. AWD

 

Here guys, have another....

 

Ok. Superz, and Limey, we know that the brochure that is floating around on this forum is not a tech training manual. But it IS a brochure, printed BY Mitsubishi, to give the technicians and salespeople a heads-up on what exactly they'll be selling. So to date, in my opinion, that is the most legitimate source of information. Mitsubishi gave this info to the general public when they gave it to their salesmen. They know that their salesmen are telling their customers about the cars, and it would be corporate suicide to change such an aspect of the car as say, oh, radically changing the drivetrain from AWD to something else!!!

Because let's face it, whatever Mitusbishi wants to give us, it's already cast in stone. It takes time to set up a car factory to produce cars, while pamphlets can be changed in 5 minutes. So I highly doubt that Mitsubishi printed up these pamphlets, advertising FULL TIME AWD, then decided one day, "Hey, let's go to a different drivetrain!" They know that their salesmen are telling their customers about the cars. They wouldn't give them any info until that wasn't finalized. I mean, c'mon, go try to get some info from a Subaru person on the STi, or until recently, have you talked with a Mazda person about the RX-8 (which does have some pretty finalized specs as of the past couple of weeks.) It is all speculation. Factory's tell salesmen NOTHING, until it's pretty much a done deal.

Now with that stated, I don't remember seeing a thing about the differentials in that brochure, of the limited slip, ACD, viscous, etc.... anykind. So it is quite possible that Mitsubishi IS keeping them a secret. They may want all the time they can before tipping their hand to Subaru, since they've already said that whatever the Evo does, the STi will do better. And since the STi is supposed to show up at auto shows in January, every little day counts. Or Mitsubishi could be still trying to make up their minds on the whole differential issues. Last I heard, some dealers had pushed back when they were expecting to receive their cars. Maybe the factory guys and head honcho's are running around going, "Viscous....no, wait, change it to ACD! Yeah, definetly ACD! No, wait, too costly, change it to......" And the factory's all set up, except for this one big empty spot right in the middle of the assembly line. Who knows? (rhetorical question, please don't answer. I've had abouit enough of people with inside info...except for you Fireball. Your's kicks ***!)

Rant, rant, rantity rant. Ok, I'm done....