I'm about to make an EVO X purchase from Sout Coast. I live in AZ, but the dealers here can't touch their prices. When I asked for a quote from a local dealer he gave me some line about "California cars are different from Arizona cars". The only thing I can think of is emmisions in relation to catalytic converters or factory tuning of the ecu. I'm sure he's just using scare tactics. Anyone want to chime in on this subject. Thanks

-Travis-

 

Usually California cars are slightly detuned so they should have less power.

 

i thought about that too.. i prob going to get a ca X but am worried about how the CA cars r different than other ppl cars

 

As far as I know, CA evo's are the same as all other US evo's.

 

I don't think Mitsubishi builds EVO's for every different state. Or are you saying the local dealers detune them? I would find this hard to believe. All EVO VIII and IX where delivered to the states intended to run on 93oct, not 91oct like we have here in Cal.

 

All Evo's sold in the US are the same.

 

not saying every state is different but i know CA has strict emissions.. thats what worries me!

 

I remember the 3rd Gen Eclipses had a Fed Spec and a CA Spec car where the Fed Spec had less restrictive emissions equipment on and thus had a little more power. No such thing though for the EVOs though here in the US.

 

It's the PCV system and CAT. that make it Cal. legal, which is on every EVO sold in the U.S.

 

CA has diff emissions on the cars they sell, so there could very well be a change in the cars tuning. There are a couple othere states in the boat as well (nothing a flash from Dynoflash couldnt fix tho). Based on what I've seen, save the $, buy from CA, you'll mod it anyway

 

Usually, all US cars are designed to meet CA emissions regardless of any other state's rules and regulations.

 

i guess if u flash it all of that special CA emission crap would b gone..

 

For the masses...Yes, but a car that has only been sold in the states for the past five years and in limited quantities, I don't think so. Also, if there was a California EVO, don't you think there would be a different Octane requirement?

 

I thought that all cars coming to the us has to follow CA emission? NO?

I thought that the manufacture got tired of building different specs, so they just decided to build it to CA and sell to the rest of the US.

 

Mitsu doesn't tailor cars to specific states within the US --- they produce them to be 50 state legal, which includes California, and they distribute the order based on dealer allotments.

I've never heard of any new car being deemed "illegal" to sell in a market because of it's tune.

That's just nonsense.

I recommend killing this thread, or the salesman that created this hullabaloo.