US Lancer Evo Update

[Cyphatic]

Thanks for clearing things up for me on my other thread...

I was just talking about my Lancer interest on IRC and someone who stated he worked at a US Mitsubishi car dealer told me what he knew about the EVO US.

He said Mitsubishi is working on getting the Evo VII Full Sport edition to the US 2003, sporting a 280 HP engine and all in all pretty damn close to the real thing... And he said that with most options and all it will be arround 40k.. Which is music to my ears after hearing people spouting 70k etc... He could have been BS'in me but he sounded straght, I wish I logged it, or atleast could look up his domain/IP, but it was masked...

Anyways, if this is true, I'm definetely waiting til 2003... ;D

[violinandy]

eek, 40k, thats still waaaaay too much. Thats a 15,000 dollar markup from the Japanese price! Well, there is a place on the net now where you can buy imported Evos at http://www.evolutionimports.net/. I'm gonna try them out before I go to a Mitsu dealership if the dealerships are gonna charge that much for an EVO. Jeez thats alot. I can't see how mitsubishi would justify that, even with import tariffs and stuff. Thats outrageous. Maybe there will actually be like 10 or 11k worth of options, but that seems unlikely.

[LanCeRzEvO]

well um the 1999 3000GT VR-4 costed around 44gs and it had 325hp in America

[violinandy]

the 3000gt also had more complicated internals and 2 turbochargers instead of 1 (i think, don't know a whole lot about these cars) and were horrifically over-priced as well. Thats why they barely sold, and mitsubishi pulled the plug on selling the car in the states. I don't think they would be stupid enough to make the same mistake twice. Actually, aren't the Evos sold through actual mitsubishi dealerships throughout the world traditionally more expensive than privately imported ones (i.e. grey imports and ralliart)? I think this is more of a question for the people that live in the UK, but I seem to remember reading or hearing that somewhere.

[VQuick]

They said that the Lan Evo would be coming here detuned, with 210hp. So that means it has to be much less than $40k. I guess the good news is that it should be easy to get that 66hp+ back.

[violinandy]

motor trend has said lots of things about evos. All of them completely unproven.

[yamil]

it hassssss to be a little less than 30k!! darn iiiiiit!!!!!!



denial huh?

[BLUE AND BLACK]

It all has to do with global price policy. Cars prices in Europe are fairly high. This is due to the fact that the car manufacturers are trying to compensate the dump prices for the US market. So the basicprice for the car is already high. Add to that all kind of taxes and there you go.

Japanese cars on there home market are dirt cheap. Same as US cars in the US market. People in Japan also drive on the left. This means RHD models are made for that market. Because of the price policy (and the fct that the yen is pretty weak compared to the UKP) it's cheaper to do a personal import get a SVA (standard vehicle approval) and drive off. I haven't got a clue why the Aussies aren't more into this.

For mainland Europe this isn't an option. We drive on the right side of the road (same as you in the US). So we have to get our cars throught the official channels. Now the EVO wasn't officially imported in most countries. A maze in the import rules however made it possible to import it into the country where I live. But at a very high price. US$ 52,000. Ralliart UK still have some TM editions VI available at UKP 25,000. This is a lot less, but they haven't got the special taxes we in the Netherlands got (I had to pay US$8,000 extra because of luxery taxe on the car, not the mention the high salestax of 19%)


Nico

[focalBlur]

From what I heard:
the EVO will be here next year will the full hp rating or only slightly detuned
the car will be the same as in Japan other then some modifications to the bumper/intercooler
also if detuned it will only talk a little time and cast to get it back up to Japans specs

[shoei]

Okay, this is all i know for now, and all i can share... The Evo is DEFINETLY coming, April 2003 to be exact... It will most likely be de-tuned, i don't know by how much... The good news is easily reversed...
Sticker price will be over $26,000 but under $35,000... Body wise, there will be SLIGHT differences... Apparently Mitsu is having some serious issues fitting the intercooler under the US requirements for the front bumper...

As soon as i found out more, i'll be sure to share it with the rest of you...

[gang$tarr]

in this months Sports Compact Car on pg. 128 they say that Mitsubishi will make the decision if they will bring the Lancer EVO VII to the U.S. by this fall

and on another page they were saying that rumours are it'll be 280hp

[shoei]

No it's definetly coming, unless by some force of nature things go wrong, nasty style... Power band though, it still remains undecided, more than likely it will be de-tuned to go with american laws, but from what i've heard it'll be a breeze to reverse that... =)

Infact in September - October Mitsu execs here in the states are having some kind of preview... Oh and they've got one here in Cyprus, it's a E6 but they're doing some extensive testing... =)

[LanCeRzEvO]

Why should i be detuned for? i dont get how they must detune it because when you look at Mazda Rx-8 its almost 280 hp and Nizzan Z car is around 250hp.. and look at the Acura Nsx it is 280hp..

If mistubishi can make a 3000gt 315 hp.. why not the Lancer evo?

[Twist]

I e-mailed the guys at www.evolutionimports.net they said that a Lancer Evo 5 would have a starting price at 35k. They said the reasont the price was so steep was because they only import left hand drive cars (cars in American style) and those are fairly rare. I've e-mailed them about Evo 6 and haven't gotten a reply yet...

[BLUE AND BLACK]

If they only offer EVO V at the moment it means you're only getting 2nd hand cars. Be aware about the history of the car you get offered. Many will be raced with or will have been used a so called number 0 rally cars.

For US standards $35,000 for a 2nd hand EVO V is pretty steep.

They are right abour it beeing rare. I only know of 4 road going LHD EVO's in the Netherlands. They are all white.

Nico