Originally Posted by Animus

The Evo is plenty reliable. The Evo is a very simple cars, that is there are very few parts of the car that could go wrong. The Evo doesn't have a million computers to bypass before you can drive it like a BMW, it doesn't offer the luxury features of most other 30k cars (I consider this a good point because there's less to go wrong). I don't know about the evo X though but we'll see how that car does in the next few months.

If you are fairly knowledgable about fixing cars and you don't recklessly abuse the car, the Evo should have nothing wrong with it. All the unreliability issues I've seen of are of people that have little idea of how to take care of a car and abuse it, then blame Mitsu for building a piece of crap.

If you don't believe me this is a quote from Tommi Makinen, "The Evo was a fast car, a very, very fast car, which suited my driving style very well. At the same time, it was a very reliable car. It was simple enough. We didn't have any electronic gearchange. It was all manual. It was very, very reliable. I would say nearly all our retirements were my own fault. I went off. I had quite a few accidents. But we had very few retirements for technical reasons, and that was very good at the time".

In this modern age, I think most cars are all reliable if you know how to take care of it. It's just that some cars are better at taking mindless abuse from people that could careless about cars. I'm sure though most people that buy the Evo know what they're getting and hopefully you understand this too instead of just listening to word of mouth from other people.