Went to a meeting yesterday at our sister company (General Atomics) and as I was introducing myself, one of the other Engineers ask if I drive an "EVO", not a Lancer Evolution, but the nick name "EVO". I was a little surprised, he caught me off guard. I guess the previous week I had to drop off a disk with some files and my contact just happen to be out side getting something from the Rouch Couch, and walked over to me as I was pulling up. First thing he said was "nice car". He must have spread the news, so now I'm the guy with a "EVO".

 

i live in an old consevitive area and all the old midwest women just look at me like i am some punk kid with a loud car.

 

i am 27 by the way. not much of a kid anymore

 

I have had free upgrades to large fries and drink at fast food restaurants a couple of times. That's about it though.

 

Mitsubishi doesn't do any advertisement on the Evo (none that I've seen), unlike Subaru where the WRX at least got some exposure on TV, lots people do give me compliments on how nice my car looks, but most of them think it's just a tricked out Lancer.

 

I get pulled over for doing absolutely nothing wrong, anybody else with me?

Scorke

 

my special treatment= ppl trying to run me off the road

 

yea mee too but i am used to because i also drive a 3rd gen prelude jdm right hand drive. and when i moved to the midwast about 1 yr ago and still have california plates the are always pull me over for nuttin. they actually leave me alone more in the mr.

 

Umm. It's just a car. It's not like they can only be sold to Green Berets with law degrees or something. Anybody who thinks they're something special because of the car they drive is kind of a joke.

 

Naa dude, your the only one man that I know of.

 

i don't know about special treatment, but for some reason i have had more people trying to race me i never give in though

 

Second that, I posted a thread a month ago, a cop pulled me over when I was coming back home after taking parents out to dinner when I was visiting them over President's day weekend, the cop told me that my driving was good, but my license tag is not registered to my car. I guess he'd been following me for a while and ran my tag through a computer, he told me both my car and the tag are under my name but not associated to each other, and told me he won't give me a ticket but I need to straight it out ASAP. I went to the DMV couple days later and guess what, that was a load of BS the cop told me, the lady at the DMV spent about 15 mins looking up the computer and couldn't find what the cop was talking about, she actaully got her supervisor to look at it and still nothing. I guess the cop just pulled me over 'cause it's an Evo, and I'm guessing if it weren't for my parents being in the car with me at the time, I'd be telling a completely different story.

 

People try to race me alot also.

Funny Story:
Two guys in a diesel pickup pull up next to me revving the engine like crazy. I look over and he gives me a visual sign like he wants to race. So I look back and quickly put my car in 1st. Light turns green and he peels out and takes off. I just gradually accelerate. I can see the two guys giving each other high fives and celebrating. WOW, that made my day...

Sorry for the incomplete sentences, wanted to make that story less painful to read.

 

i think my car gets more special treatment from me....more so than my car get me special treatment

 

lady cop didn't give me a ticket. it happened twice

getting inside the base and don't need to show the id coz the guard knows me already