EVOFans

(Feature excerpt from becauserc.com which is found by me and my friend)



Those of you who read Because RC would know that the Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution means a lot to me (Brian). After almost a year of running becauserc.com, finally we are going to dedicate a month to the Lancer Evolution! To say that I am excited would be an understatement. However, for this special month, all of the cars we feature would be from the third generation body style carrying the model code “CT9A” that covers the Lancer Evolution VII to IX MR due to car availability.








Despite all of them being from the same generation, we managed to source 4 good examples with various level of modifications ranging from mild to wild to showcase how flexible of a platform the Lancer Evolution can be. To start with, we have Faiz and his lightly modded Lancer Evolution IX GSR. Despite being a lightly modded example, it is still a force to be reckon with on the street and on the touge. Being a JDM example, the Lancer Evolution IX was only produced for one model year in 2005 with the next revision, the Lancer Evolution IX MR, being the last of the CT9A generation along with the 4G63 engine.








What make a Lancer Evolution so special? For one, they are actually produced to satisfy FIA homologation requirements of 2500 production car per calendar year with the same drivetrain and engine configuration as the Group A WRC(World Rally Championship) car so Mitsubishi can campaign the Lancer Evolution in WRC. With Tommi Makinen behind the wheel, they managed to bag 4 consecutive WRC driver championships from 1996 to 1999 and also grabbing the WRC manufacturer championship in 1998 with the Lancer Evolution V. To celebrate these achievements, Mitsubishi released the Lancer Evolution VI Tommi Makinen Edition back in 2000 which is the ultimate EVO for a lot of EVO purist and it is insanely cool.








The Lancer Evolution IX we are featuring today is a GSR variant which is the highest trim level and it is the most common variant all over the world. It is the variant of choice for daily drivers and Faiz uses his as one. Being as GSR, it came with the standard 6 speed manual transmission which is more pleasant for highway cruising and S-AYC(Super Active Yaw Differential) rear differential which is essentially a electronically controlled torque vectoring differential. The AYC has been featured in every Lancer Evolution GSR trim level since the Lancer Evolution IV. If you think the latest generation Ford Focus RS torque vectoring rear differential is impressive for a production car, Mitsubishi actually produced their production car with such devices 20 years ago! With no doubt, the Lancer Evolution is the halo car for Mitsubishis performance car line up back in the 90s due to its success in WRC. This is a rather odd scenario as the top dog of the Mitsubishi performance car line up was suppose to be the GTO/3000GT rather than the Lancer Evolution.


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