Originally Posted by blitzkrieg79

Notice that all the people who prefer the aesthetics of Evo IX than X all own previous generation Evos. It's expected though, they are biased as they like their cars. However anyone with just a pinch of aesthetic sense will pick Evo X hands down, it's just a so much better and modern looking car than any previous Evos. Sure the IX looks more rugged but I guess thats what 18-21 year olds like, older population prefers much more sophisticated and smoother shapes.

Originally Posted by blitzkrieg79

Notice that all the people who prefer the aesthetics of Evo IX than X all own previous generation Evos. It's expected though, they are biased as they like their cars. However anyone with just a pinch of aesthetic sense will pick Evo X hands down, it's just a so much better and modern looking car than any previous Evos. Sure the IX looks more rugged but I guess thats what 18-21 year olds like, older population prefers much more sophisticated and smoother shapes. I know that the 2008 regular Lancer doesn't look as good on pictures as it does in real life, there is just so much detail in the body work that none of the pictures can capture it, there are nice creases, some surface flaming, and I like the shark look especially from the side profile. Also the headlights have a sophisticated shape but you gotta look at it a bit closer to see how much detail there is in the new Lancer.

As far as performance goes, so far all the reviews I have read say that Evo IX is a bit faster on 0-60 but on actual track Evo X is a better car. Also the SST at the time of reviews wasn't fully optimized by Mitsubishi so I am assuming that even the 0-60 times will be a bit better on Evo X with SST than last gen Evo IX with manual tranny. Since Mitsubishi wants to move Evo X a bit upmarket (increase prices) I think Evo X has to be faster in every imaginable way than last gen Evo, otherwise it will be a bit of a failure considering the price increase.