evo a "real" performance car?
that would be a big 10-4
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please just google Evo + WRC + History + Performance Cars + beat the 'ish out of Supercars + wtf + "are you serious" + what eats M3's + I just beat a porsche + I just beat a vette + I just beat my stick + get fancy skyline and still get beat by evo
Well The Evo and The STI will get you going pretty Fast For a verly low cost. If you want a True Sports Car, the feel and everything the evo isn't quite for you. I would recomend a s2000 as a true sports car at heart. But If you want the Ride of your life and just pure ownage of anything and everything, an Evo is a pretty good buy. An Evo is a Rally car at heart, designed to co around tight gravely corners incredibly fast whilist maintaining control, Going up hill, and flying over Smal mounds at 100 MPH is what the evo was meant for. Like and s2000 was designed to FLy around a paved circuit like you would find in Grand Tourismo. They are both good at what they do, but they aren't the same thing. I have driven both. SO there is your answer, no an evo isn't a sports car.
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as mentioned, i stated very clearly that i have total respect for the evo and after reading through this forum and other sources of information am most likely to be buying one. i was looking for some objective feedback, this was not an attack on the evo, i must have phrased the question wrong as there seems to be alot of defensive remarks.
Is the Evo is a true performance car? Does a bear $#it in the woods?
You must drive it to understand. Beyond the chassis and interior trim it shares practically nothing with the base lancer. It comes with alot of choice technology and its really built around the driveline and suspension, not the lancer chassis (which isn't the greatest IMHO). The X will have a revised design based on the Dodge neon chassis and is expected to be lighter and stiffer.
If you really want to just drive, it will be a waste to get the more expensive cars.
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Well The Evo and The STI will get you going pretty Fast For a verly low cost. If you want a True Sports Car, the feel and everything the evo isn't quite for you. I would recomend a s2000 as a true sports car at heart. But If you want the Ride of your life and just pure ownage of anything and everything, an Evo is a pretty good buy. An Evo is a Rally car at heart, designed to co around tight gravely corners incredibly fast whilist maintaining control, Going up hill, and flying over Smal mounds at 100 MPH is what the evo was meant for. Like and s2000 was designed to FLy around a paved circuit like you would find in Grand Tourismo. They are both good at what they do, but they aren't the same thing. I have driven both. SO there is your answer, no an evo isn't a sports car.
To me, the Evo is in the same league as the BMW E30 M3 Evo III, Mercedes 190E 2.5-16v Cosworth, Lancia HF Delta Integrale, and Ford Escort RS Cosworth. All of these started life as basic, "no frills" street cars and were turned into winning racers when all the major components were comprehensively redesigned by race engineers. It would be foolish to denigrate the E30 M3 because it shares its basic chassis with a pedestrian 100hp 318i grocery-getter. It would be equally foolish to denigrate the Evo because it shares its basic chassis with a pedestrian Lancer compact sedan.
In my view, the Evo is more of a sports car than most of the so-called "sports cars" on the market. It's a true homologation special. It needs to be evaluated in that context. Personally, I'd rather drive a Renault R5 Maxi Turbo than a Mazda MX-5 Miata, BMW Z4 Coupe, or Honda S2000 ... even if these are technically "sports cars" whereas the R5 Maxi Turbo started life as a "LeCinq" econo-box.
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