Mitsubishi Lancer Evo X - The Newest Member To The Evo Family
If you have any kind of interest in cars and specifically, driving them at rather fast speeds, then you are probably already aware of the Mitsubishi Evo Range. If you are not interested in fast cars that feel as dangerous as a wounded animal, then this probably isn’t the article for you. If, on the other hand, you’re one of those drivers who (rather foolishly) like to have your life flash before your eyes every time you sit behind the wheel, then read on.
The engineers at Mitsubishi have released the latest member of their Evo Series, the Evo X, to something of a critical question mark. So far, opinion has been neatly split down the middle, with some reviewers hailing it as the ultimate in car-driving bragging rights, with other lamenting its rather limited BHP in comparison to the last generation ‘FQ’ series.
I sit neatly on the fence in this argument, as I know that on the surface, the Mitsubishi Evo X probably isn’t quite as impressive as its forebear. On the other hand I also know that anyone who buys this car, all £30,000 of it, is unlikely to leave it in even a comparable condition as to how it comes from the factory. No, thats not how you behave if you own a car of this type.
The Evolution X is the ultimate customisable car. Owners are known to install new bucket seats, larger exhausts, overhaul the engine to get better power and pretty much alter every screw and replace every component. Mitsubishi know this only too well, which probably explains why they haven’t overdone it on the quality of components (which are frankly shoddy at best). Why bother when they’re only going to be swapped for custom specification?
With suitable tweaking and hours spent grunting over hot machinery, you can bet that the Evo X will be witnessed on the roads as a 400BHP animal rather than the slightly tame 291BHP we see here. Don’t get me wrong, 291BHP is still enough to rip the skin from your bones, but it won’t dissolve you or send you forward through a time dilation in the space/time continuum like the previous model could.
My Evo tip: Buy it / customise it.
