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A Fast 4-Door is the Car of the Day

May 16th, 2008 · No Comments

Here is today’s “Car of the Day” — if I was to go out and purchase a car today with a $35,000 budget, it would be a Mitsubishi Evolution X GSR. 

The Evolution or Evo as it is fondly referred to among enthusiasts is a civilized rally car.  It has a super trick AWD system complete with Active Yaw Control, but the heart of this Evo is its 2.0 liter 290hp engine.  This little car has enough grunt to cover the 1/4mile 13.6 seconds.  If the 60 mph benchmark is how you measure speed, then you would be done measuring speed before your stopwatch hit 5 seconds. 

The styling isn’t for everyone; actually the car isn’t for everyone.  If performance is on the top of your priority list and you prefer 4 doors, this offering from Mitsubishi is a very attractive one.  The Evo X has actually received a little negative press for being a little softer than the previous Evos.  However, the previous Evos could stand to be a little softer, they were a little too closely tied to their rally race car brethren.  This made an Evo a challenging car for a daily driver. 

The newer Evo has resolved some of the pains that plagued the Evo IX. 

There are other ways to get near 300hp in the $30,000 price range, the primary option that comes to my mind is the Infiniti G35.  The G35 is a fine car, but is not quite the purpose built performance machine that the Evo is. 

To some the Mitsubishi Evolution is just a tarted up econobox, but those that get the Evo, those have driven one, those that appreciate the Evo know otherwise and understand that an Evo is a like a Japanese Audi RS4 for half the price. 

$35,000 may not sound like a deal for a car that started life as a Mitsubishi Lancer, but it is a deal for a car that has all of the high performance bits of a street legal rally car.

 

 

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