Why do people say "The EVO was never meant to be..."? I don't understand such sayings, how do you know what the EVO was or was not meant to be? If anything, the EVO is meant to attract buyers and to be sold to a customer. Don't give me this crap about Rally Racing heritage, nobody in the United States or even in Japan gives a hoot about Rally Racing. Honestly yes the EVO X is heavier, and yes it is slower, but in the end it is an all around better car and that is what attracts buyers.

 

See you got your numbers wrong. Mitsubishi only sold 120,000+ cars this year (first 11 months), but for them that is great compared to last year where they sold less than 120,000 cars (entire 12 months). So as you can see Mitsubishi has never really had a huge percentage of the auto market even during their best years. But sales are up this year for Mitsubishi for the first time in a long time and while you say their sales are sad, I don't think Mitsubishi is very sad about selling more cars this year over the previous year. Also I've said this before, the EVO is only what 4% to 5% (or less) of Mitsubishi sales, in all honesty the EVO as far as sales isn't that important, but it is the Halo car for Mitsubishi and that is just as an important and Mitsubishi is using the EVO to exhibit their new direction. The direction I believe they are trying to show the rest of the world is that they can combine performance, quality, and luxury into one package. Now don't get me wrong, I certainly hope once again they focus more attention on the performance, but they had to get the quality and luxury bits taken care of first. My point is, that Mitsubishi could have focused most of their attention on performance and been happy with the 4% or 5% of the sales the EVO makes up of their sales, I know a lot of us would have been happy with that. But if they are looking for the EVO to make 8% to 10% of their sales, which could one day be in the neighborhood of 150,000 cars or more, the EVO has to get better all around.

 

+ Gazillion

 

I meant to say almost 120K cars. The fact remains that even a car company that only sales 150k a year if mitsu gets there is very sorry. I love the evo, but my thoughts are that the evo is not going to boost #'s to give mitsu an edge oevr the other car companies out there. Not to make this a mitsu verse honda or toyota or who ever, but those car companies sell that amont in one month. Mitsu made their mistakes in the past and need to recover from that and the evo is not a good start since the average person out there wants a normal civil duty car not a high performance car. If I were head of mitsu, i would focus sales in everyday cars and make them better. Let the performance car be a performance car and not refine the point to where it's almost a lux car. Thats my take

 

I don't know if I totally hate it yet, but I do like your avatar

 

So...did mustbe****i release the prices on the X yet?

 

E haskel is showing an example of a straw man arguement, What does this thread have anything to do with subaru

Thats his line lol