Wonder what the paint looks like on that X

 

not good...lol

 

well its a rally car so paint damage would be expected......funny enough though i did not observe one paint chip on the car, the big mud flaps did there job

 

Regardless of whether or not that was the first one, it's still a sweet video. I wish I coulda done that when I was in Jamaica a few years ago.

 

ok i see where you are coming from............
first of all, its not my car dude......secondly, everybody knows of that car in the pic its the 0 car used in japan for their rally( 0 car is not a competing car it just runs ahead of the rally cars to check the stages) the japs dont seem to count this car as its their R&D car, so the search is still on....an evo x won its first rally worldwide in japan, but that was a tarmac event, not much gravel bits are available for this car as yet, just mainly safety stuff

 

Aaaaahhh! The Evo dominates gravel roads.

I took my daily driver out on some Washington fire access roads a couple of weekends ago, completely stock. Paint didn't suffer too much. I worried about the tires, but they worked like champs, no damage.

The best part was power sliding past some dirt bikers (AYC really turns the most ham fisted drivers into rally pros) on some of the twisties. Second best part was pulling into the gas station in town afterwards with a filthy car and getting the nod from a bronco owner.

Def. not the best thing for the car, but man I recommend you all try it once.

 

I thought a car was ment to be driven?? thats like someone buying an Hummer h2 and putting 30's on it.... its soo sad..

 

Whats up with that lightbar on top of that red evo on gravel? is it a pace car or something?

 

yup.....

 

more shots from a different event

 

 

one more

 

Looks like lots of fun

 

almost as good as sex

 

this car has brought to light so problems with the evo x active drivetrain...it malfuntions when its on heavy gravel...(car handles eratic)....the problem has been traced to dirt getting on the wheel speed sensors..Curently there is not a solution as in japan they still have not run a x on a gravel rally event.... doug has tried to remove stuff like the parking brake mechanism ,and the backing plate, which seemed to help a little , but by 800m onto a stage the diff lights would come on, and the car would not handle so well