tl;dr - 13.3 @ 104 mph, .93g

 

0-60 4.4 seconds. Nice.

 

Daym. Well, more reason for me to leave it virgin

 

I appreciate the honest nature of the car. I came to a 2015 gsr from years if a 94 miata r that I hardly miss. Although I do think the evo's ride is way too soft...contrary to the review.

The test notes say the front runs out of grip first. If you give it an aggressive alignment with appropriate settings I wonder what resultant g's they would have gotten. Also, no mention of s-awc's contribution in the handling mix. Perhaps a magazine would be so nice to get the Evo FE and a Focus RS together for a proper passing of the torch.

 

Handing off the torch to a Ford?? Haha Right. I was thinking they would pass off the torch to a Kia while they're at it.

 

Even then, I'd feel Hyundai's Genesis 5.0 would be more deserving.

 

Just think of it as a GKN then.

 

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.

 

^lol

 

Yea not gonna lie im looking forward to seeing what the new RS is all about! A 300 hp hatchback awd! Yes please!

 

its quite interesting the extra 12 hp relates to that much improvement...

The RS is claimed the 4.7sec 0-62mph and 13.2 if I am right 1/4 mile I forgot the trap speed.

And its a bit lighter car, so the FE would be almost pair with that performance with a heavier weight and 40 less HP ...

We will see in te real life.


food for thought mean time. The AMG is irrelevant for the USA we don't have it here.

 

the best replacement for the Evo hands down.
I was always a RS fan. Big time. They sound great , handle great and they are fast.
Poor STI guys never get a break. lol

 

The fact that 12 hp makes that much of a difference seems a little suspicious to me but what do I know. Good to know the car went out with a bang.

 

Other publications had 4.3 and 4.4/4.5 0-60 with the X...and better around their respective skidpads....its all relative at the end of the day, comes down to human error/timing...great article though! hopefully someone at Mitsu sacks up and pushes the XI in to reality since there has been a ton of talk about it.

 

Exactly. I don't understand why people make it sound as if the car has been running 14's or something. X's have run as low as 13 flat in the 1/4 and 0.99g around the skidpad.

Here are some past test results to make my point.

RT had a 2011 GSR do 0-60 in 4.3 and 1/4 in 13.0 @ 105
MT clocked a 2010 SE doing 0-60 in 4.5 and 1/4 in 13.3 @ 103.4
C&D themselves tested a 2008 GSR doing 0-60 in 4.6 and 1/4 in 13.4 @ 103.