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Originally Posted by flylwsi
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the evo 8 is really an evo 7.5, b/c there weren't many changes to the car.
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No, the EVO 8, is an EVO 8.
For every EVO generation the odd numbered model is the new car, built on a new platform of either the Lancer, or Cedia. The Even numbered model is then the face lift, done with small minnor improvments at the same time the Lancer/Cedia its based off is also face lifted.
A .5 is only added to the name if the even numbered model is aslo given a face lift, or in someway changed, in this case this only happened to the EVO 5, which was face lifted to the EVO 6, which was then given small performance enhancing mods and sold in some markets as the EVO 6.5 and in others as the Tommi Makinen edition, and in some as both.
However, since this thread seems to purly about cars avliable in the US, at US prices (only the EVO is avliable here for that sort of money, the other two would cost a hell of a lot more) then you are talking about the US spec EVO 8. Which is quite differnce to the one sold to the rest of the world, it appears to more of an EVO 5 or 6, in a modfieded EVO 8 body. A true EVO 8 would run rings around in terms of performance, just like it will run rings around an older EVO 5 or 6.