Car will only be mainly used for daily driving and maybe some time on the track. I live in b.c and it's very hard to find a Evo 9 with low mileage that's why I'm debating

 

Hi!

Welcome and thank you for posting!

I would buy the FE now based on limited availability and I assume a good resale value in the future. Good luck with your decision.

Bob

 

I think you answered your own question. The VIIIs and IXs with low mileage (and in the condition you would want) are hard enough to find in the U.S. (and if you do find them, you're likely not going to get a deal), let alone in Canada where they were never officially sold. So you're going to be paying a bit of a premium for a 10+ year-old car.

With you being in Canada, your X FE is a little better than ours, since yours still have Recaros while ours don't anymore, which alone is already a little annoying. (Yes, you can swap them out as some people have, but it's an extra hassle -- one that you luckily wouldn't have to deal with, plus the standard seats in your market's version would match with its red stitching.)

If I were you, I would get the X FE, considering the road ahead to finding the VIII/IX that you would want, unless the perfect one just happens to fall on your lap today.

 

agree 100%.. you guys in Canada got the real unmolested JDM FE that like always we get screwed out of it. I would not buy and FE here in the US but in Canada I be all over it.

 

Well, Canada did miss out on the VIII and IX, so I still think we got treated better in the end. And it's really only the 2015 model that we got screwed out of with the seats, and it's not totally Mitsubishi's fault either.

 

you're ****ing damn right the states got treated better in the end. costs around 35k to get a half decent evo ix here, for the cost of a low mileage un molested one you could by two evo X's

 

Looking at the currency conversion, it looks like the MSRP of an X FE in Canada converted to US ($35,955.40) is slightly closer to the price of our X GSR ($34,495) than our X FE ($37,995). Has anyone thought about getting a X FE in Canada and bringing it stateside? I know it's a lot of work in general, but you figure for people who live close to the Canadian border, it might not be too bad of an idea if they want one.

 

Will you princess's behave, in Australia we get screwed for everything, a new x is around 55 g, a good ix would put you back 30g plus. Here we get get screwed and learn to love it :/

 

In Canada it's about 58 grand after the taxes and all that jazz