i hope this is in the right thread but anyways..


ok, there are lancer es, ra, evo, bla bla bla. ralliart is our performance divition or watever, why dont other companies do that. i know that ford has that with the focus though, the svt
i think it would be cool.
like a toyota carolla trd, or somthing like that.
what do u guys think

 

Lots of other companies have performance divisions. I don't really consider the ralliart a performance tuned car as they didn't take a pre-existing model and modify it, they more or less built a new car (hence the 2.4 L engine and such). I think honda is coming out with a Mugen version of the Si, not sure about other manufacturers.

 

toyota has the corolla xRS and the matrix xRS which comes with 6 speed and VVTL-i engines.

 

toyota has the trd trucks. nissan has a nismo skyline, i think there is a nismo Z also. mazda has the mazda speeds. dodge with their srt's, and so on.

 

yeah they said it, and Honda is coming out with a Mugen Si. Ralliart is like the mazdaspeed of mazda and the svt of ford. Nissan also has SE-R

 

Honda = HPD/Mugen
Toyota = TRD
Nissan = Nismo
Mitsubishi = Ralliart
Mazda = Mazdaspeed

 

Arithmetic, You for got MOPAR! lmao

 

i saw that ralliart is doing a bunch of performance mods with the new outlander, im just wondering why they havent done anything with the lancer. i think they should come out with warrenty friendly mods like nissan, etc.

 

Moved to Other Cars.

Pretty much every manufacturer has a performance division. However, not all of them brand their cars with it. Each one of the big 3 has their own racing division with huge parts lists.

Also, Ralliart has plenty of parts out for the Lancers, they're just not available in the US.

 

Not only that, practically everywhere in the world they enjoy the best of what the car industry has to offer, for example, Volkwagen has been making 170hp turbodiesel engines on their VW golf,passat and other models while we are stuck with the 90-110hp version.

As per the Toyota with the VTTL-I, that is nothing , we only can purchase the 109hp version while in Europe and Japan they have the 180hp model.

my .2c

Carlos

 

Ford has a sports turbo'd diesel focus in the UK, it looks pretty sweet too.

 

thats not the auto industry's fault its the government putting so much regulations on everything. and we call ourselves the land of the free. yea free to do what the government tells us to

 

actually we have a 180hp matrix and corolla XRS. they have a pathetic 125ft.lbs but regardless, its still 180hp. and that VVtL-i acts like v-tec.

so like everyone has said
ford=SVT
Toyota=TRD/XRS
Nissan=Nismo/SE-R
Honda=Mugen
Mitsu=Ralliart/VR-4

and for a couple trucks,
chevy=Xtreme
Toyota= S-runner, X-runner
Nissan= Supercharged Frontier

 

i know other companies have the performance divitions but imean like having what they did with the lacer ralliart.
all i know of.. in america at least is the svt focus, lacer ra, and the mazda speeds