EVO IX rumor

[viet x lancer]

has anyone seen the 2004 lancer ralliart edition?...well the headlamps are exatcly the same as the 'evo ix'...the us spec lancers will begin to have a 'face lift'-mitsu...all the lancers will have these head lamps, but ralliart will have a black-housing version...if you ask me...it looks like the 2003 accord head lamps...i think mitsu should make head lamps like my beemer (bmw)...bring in the halos/angel eyes!

[phatdex]

Originally posted by Moppie


Mitsi still make a Lancer and a Mirage, both are made in Europe and Japan, and while the Lancer is a bit odd looking, the Mirage is quite cool.

The EVO 8 is based on the Cedia platform because it's Bigger and stiffer than the Lancer, and because the US Lancer is actualy a Cedia.
This saves Mitsi money on getting the EVO 8 into the US market. (the USDM EVO 8 is quite a differnt car to what the rest of the world gets, to begin with its only got EVO 6 running gear)

There will not be an EVO 9. There might be an EVO 8.5, or an EVO 8 restyed and midly tuned and called an EVO 9, but there will not be another Lancer/Cedia based Evolution.
Mitsubishi is gearing up to use the New Mirage as its next WRC car base, it might be called an EVOLUTION Mirage, but there is a History of hotted up Mirages being called CYBORGS that goes back to about the same time as the EVO I when an AWD Turbo Mirage was made to compete with cars like the Civic SiR, GTi-R Pulsar etc etc etc.
Since then AWD, FWD, Turbo and Mivec models have been sold in Japan (and even some base model Mirages with Cyborg body and suspension kits.)

Mirages and Lancers have not been in the Japanese line-up for a few years now. they still sell Lancers and Mirages in Australia tho.

[Jimster]

Originally posted by phatdex


Mirages and Lancers have not been in the Japanese line-up for a few years now. they still sell Lancers and Mirages in Australia tho.

The LAncer in Aus is a Cedia by another name (But I think they might still sell a few of the old Lancer models alongside it like the MR Coupe- I don't know) and I think you guys must be the only ones left with the Mirage- in Europe and NZ it was replaced by the Dutch Space Star and the Japanese have 1 billion little Microcars to replace it with


I personally can't wait for the new Colt- it'll be the first Mitsubishi in years (aside from the Evo) that isn't lagging behind the competition

[DNT5]

ok, i know the lancer evo's looks have been going on the downside since 6, but the performance is going way up. I mean, people are saying, "All they did was improve the torque...". Okay that's like saying, "All they did was make it faster.". I mean, torque's the only reason that Evo III out performed the WRX STI. And since Evo III just came out in america, it'll be more popular than ever. Now I don't know if the Evo IX rumors are true, and I do agree that the photos of the car are even worse looking than the III. but you can't blame mitsu for trying to encorporate some of the looks of the V and IV (because they looked so much better, I think they just overdone it a little). just like how people are begging mitsu to incorporate the looks of the 95-98 eclipse with the V6 of the 03 eclipse. but I'm sure most of you will agree with me, if there is a IX, it'll probably be the best rally racer developed yet.