Car & Driver Evo X Final Edition Review
Man, that article was me in a nutshell.
I remember being in high school sitting around the cafeteria table looking and gawking over cars from Japan and Europe thinking we would never get those cars here in the states. Or racing those cars on Grand Turismo on PlayStation.
The came 2003 when Mitsu decided to bring the Evo to the states. I had to have one. I saved up for an entire year on my college job to be able to afford a large enough down payment so that the monthly payments wouldn't kill me. When I finally picked my Evo 8 up on January 2004 it was like a dream come true.
So many good memories with that car. From Dyno days and tuning sessions, to trips to the tail of the dragon. It was awesome. The Evo put a smile on my face every day that I drove it. It was super reliable and I never had any major issue with it save from pealing brakes and the rear spoiler. Just before I sold it at the end of 2007, it was putting down 350 whp with a fairly small set of mods.
To this day, I still think about that car, and compare it to pretty much any car that I'm buying or looking at. Thankfully, it looks like that spirit of the Evo is being born again in the Focus RS which I hope to take delivery of towards the end of the year.
It's a shame to see the Evo go and that mitsu gave it a proper send off, but thankfully we live in a time where we can have AWD cars with 300+ hp from a variety of manufactures and I thank mitsu for leading the way.
I remember being in high school sitting around the cafeteria table looking and gawking over cars from Japan and Europe thinking we would never get those cars here in the states. Or racing those cars on Grand Turismo on PlayStation.
The came 2003 when Mitsu decided to bring the Evo to the states. I had to have one. I saved up for an entire year on my college job to be able to afford a large enough down payment so that the monthly payments wouldn't kill me. When I finally picked my Evo 8 up on January 2004 it was like a dream come true.
So many good memories with that car. From Dyno days and tuning sessions, to trips to the tail of the dragon. It was awesome. The Evo put a smile on my face every day that I drove it. It was super reliable and I never had any major issue with it save from pealing brakes and the rear spoiler. Just before I sold it at the end of 2007, it was putting down 350 whp with a fairly small set of mods.
To this day, I still think about that car, and compare it to pretty much any car that I'm buying or looking at. Thankfully, it looks like that spirit of the Evo is being born again in the Focus RS which I hope to take delivery of towards the end of the year.
It's a shame to see the Evo go and that mitsu gave it a proper send off, but thankfully we live in a time where we can have AWD cars with 300+ hp from a variety of manufactures and I thank mitsu for leading the way.
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5-60 the RPMs at 5mph are low and bogging the car down. You essentially lose the benefit of having AWD and getting serious turbo lag.
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What passing would be needed?
Ford's been doing this longer than Mitsu. American market, maybe. Plus nobody in the US market can really afford to be snobbish because we never got the best Evo in the first place, and Ford has plenty of rally chops elsewhere. RS200 > Mitsu.
Besides what do Americans do with the fabled rally cars anyway? Drag race, and random pulls. And when it comes to that, the RS is obviously going to have an advantage.
Ford's been doing this longer than Mitsu. American market, maybe. Plus nobody in the US market can really afford to be snobbish because we never got the best Evo in the first place, and Ford has plenty of rally chops elsewhere. RS200 > Mitsu.
Besides what do Americans do with the fabled rally cars anyway? Drag race, and random pulls. And when it comes to that, the RS is obviously going to have an advantage.
No, mitsubishi has been doing this since the andrew cowan's A076 lancer.
Obviously depends which source you go off of, but because this was car and driver, used their latest MR stats which is 4.9
http://www.caranddriver.com/reviews/...mr-test-review
http://www.caranddriver.com/reviews/...mr-test-review
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Accordin to this source.u can look it up.If not u can always test your own 0_60 evo x to be sure of the correct timing.
https://www.0-60specs.com/mitsubishi...on-0-60-times/
https://www.0-60specs.com/mitsubishi...on-0-60-times/