Amazing. Look in any brochure and mostly what you will find is pictures and only the base specs, and that includes sports cars. All you that are complaining about specs should invest in a shop manual for the cars you want to buy so you'll know everything you could possibly want to know. Just visit the parts department of the car's dealer you're interested in and prepare come off at least $40 or so. Oh, what's that? Don't want to pay? You expect a FREE brochure to have hundreds of pages of technical diagrams and specifications?

Get real. Most brochures end up getting flipped through and thrown away soon after there taken out of the dealerhip. After you buy the car (or choose something else) nobody cares anymore. And just like mothership said, most people are going to make up their minds about the Evolution from reading c&D, SCC, 2NR, or SS anyway.

 

I think the brochure is cool. At least is hyping it up as a racecar for the street and touting each of the features. They're trying to excite people about this car, not bore them with technical details... remember this is the one that's supposed to change their image and if you ask me, it has.

Mark

 

I have a question that has been bugging me since I saw this brochure. It states that only the low beams are HID. Is this common with HID headlights or is this how they claim HID on such an inexpensive car? I guess I don't know much about this technology. I would think HID highbeams would be much more useful. Who cares about lowbeams? I drive where there are no street lights but there are lots of deer. I put four 100 watt Hellas on my quattro Can someone help me with this?

 

Just visited Thousand Oaks Mitsubishi. I wanted to get a brocure for the time being. Talked a little bit to the guy to see what he comes up with. This is what I got, I asked how much he is selling for he said most of them are going to go for 40k He said some random stuff about selling it than what caught my ear was that he was like "We are going to be selling for around 40k but if other DEALERSHIPS sell for msrp and stuff it will force us to sell for the same price"....Key meaning don't pay more than you have to or you make it easier for every dealership to do this. . I asked him about warrentie issues he was sure. Then small talk about him wailing how cool the car is. Unfortuantly he said the car was 6 speed about 4 times and I started laughing. I also asked him about the STI, he was like omg this car smokes it. I was like off the lot STI has more power, 300 horsies. He is like it doesn't matter all about torque. He said Evo has 276 lbs of torque. I didn't finish the matter with umm... 300 lbs of torque in sti. Ya I think I am going to stay with "intelligent" dealerships.

 

Most cars that have HID only have them on low beams. Only the newer high end models are starting to have HID on the high beams.

 

When I was stationed in Pensacola, FL (Navy), I wanted the new '89 Mustang GT, so I went to the Ford dealer. I don't think they were having trouble selling GTs, but they sure were pushing the Probe on me.

Me: I would like to drive a GT.
Dealer: Let's try a Probe, first!
Me: Nah.
Dealer: Oh, come on, I promise you can drive the GT after.

So I drive the **** Probe, and upon my first acceleration from stopped, I pull a U-turn while saying, "This car has no *****."

Dealer: Ok, I understand. Let's try the Turbo!
Me: Nah. I'm sure it has only one ball.

Dealer keeps pushing, and I figure heck, I have time, and it is free entertainment after all. I drive the Probe Turbo.

Me: Yup, only one ball in this car. What do you say we try the GT now?
Dealer: Ok. I just have a lot of pressure to sell the Probe, you know? It's cheaper, and better mileage, and yadda yadda yadda...
Me: That may work on your next customer, so don't lose hope.

Back at the lot, he goes in and returns. He tosses the keys to me, and points to a Blue/Grey GT nearby.

Dealer: It's that one right there. Please, just don't peel out near the dealership, OK? That and be back within a half hour. That is all I ask.

Me: (Trying to hold my sphincter closed) Of course, don't worry.

I go pick up my buddies, and we verify that it will lay two strips of rubber, stopwatch 0 to 60 times, all that. I came back and bought it. I was only halfway sure I wanted the car before I went to that lot, but left with the car. I was worried about the payments, but after having my way with that ****, I took her home, because she put out like no other in my life.

Not really much of a point to the story, but I have to say a test drive is a good way to sell a car if the buyer seems half interested. Every time I bought a car, I was half shopping, half serious. Always got to test drive a car. I can only think of one time that I didn't buy the car, out of six. If the dealer is "cool" in my eyes, I will buy. If they seem like dicks, I won't.

I never bought a car I didn't drive first.

 

To be fair, though, I have to say that I never tried to buy a car when I was 17, either. My first car from a dealer was a Honda when I was 19. The GT was just after my 21st birthday.

 

Why does the mitsubishi brochoure make the evo sound like this car needs more maintenence than a Ferrari and just as unreliable as a chevy truck with 500,000 miles on it thats about to **** the bed.

 

Mitsubishi is just trying to let the general public know what most long term Mistubishi owners already know. This car aint no Honda!

 

i thought the marketing technique was rather gd. it realli gave me a little laugh when i read some of the comments ,esp. the one explaining the purpose of the hollow exhaust valve..."your neighbour doesnt have that"...haha

 

Look if you let 17yr old boys drive 30$+ cars then you my friend have issues. I agree that there are alot of young peeps that want to tool around in a car that they can't buy. Ahhh anyway. Sticking to the subject at hand. Since you sell Nissan's and Mitsubishi's. If a 30yr old walks into your dealership are you gonna tell him he can't test drive a 350z or Evo??? Knowing full well that he can probably afford your vehicles, compared to the 17yr old? All I am saying is its alittle unfair for dealers to say you have to put a 500$ downpayment down to test drive a car. What if I don't like the thing after I test drive it? I hope that after all this hype blows over and everyone who wants the car gets the car, that there will be some dealers with a demo to test drive later on in the year. I can't justify buying a car I can't test drive. I don't know who would? Lets put it this way. When the Wrx came out it was a hot item. I didn't have to put any money down to test drive that. They had none to sell on the dealer lot, and there was a waiting list. But they still had a demo to testdrive

 

Your are definitly missing my point! There is no need to say something like it's compicated and no need to get into it any futhure. That sound extremely Ignorant and unprofessional . I'm not asking for techical details just professionalism in an offical brochure. I also want to comment on the qoute "the lancer evolution viii isn't for everybody". That comment was just plain rude and arrogant. I feel they forgot there is an equally impressive car around the corner. Am I the only one who finds this brochure very offensive and vulgar

 

Yeah. I think your going WAY overboard.

 

I have to agree. It' s just a brochure to hype up the Evo written by a firm hired by Mitsubishi with a specific goal in mind. It's one thing to not like it, but to take offense to it seems a little over the top don't you think? I think the Evo needs to get here before some members explode!

Mark

 

JHC

One doesn't need to be 17 to be immature. A few months ago I had a group of four middle-aged men in business suits come in for the soul purpose of killing their lunch-hour by thrashing a new Altima 3.5SE as hard as they could for fun.

I let all four of them walk back to the store.

Anyone who wants to drive a Z or Evo, or any car with a high "joyride factor" at my store, and 99% of the other stores out there simply needs to qualify as a serious buyer before we are going to take that kind of liability. Each store will handle it differently - at my store it means a full right up and a credit ap. Another store may want to see some cash first as a sign of intent, maybe along with the other paperwork, making the deal contingent upon a satisfactory test drive. Whatever works.

As an employee of the store I can't even drive the things because of the insurance liability.

YOU, on the other hand CAN TEST DRIVE THE FRIGGING CAR for chrissakes! Your dealer obviously offered you the opportunity. If you drive it and don't like it, take your f---ing deposit back. It's not like a simple test drive is going to cost you the nickel.


What's the problem?

Jeez, I can't believe you don't get this. The deposit is a show of good faith. Money talks. It shows you are actually there to be serious, not jerk someone off for your own pleasure.

BTW

Some of my best customers are those 17 year-olds, kids who get blown-off by other salespeople but I give them the time of day. Most of them are strokes, but some of them have cash - or parents willing to buy them cars. That's not really the point though, like I outlined above.