![]() Launch control gets the Evo to 60 mph in 4.9 seconds and through the quarter in 13.7, about the same as every other Evo X MR we’ve tested. It’s a real bummer that the last Evo isn’t the best evolution. The car still handles as well as ever-it just isn’t as enjoyable. Fortunately the award-winning chassis didn’t depart with the Recaros in this final model year. Without those seats, it may not have won, as a good pair of sport seats allow a driver to focus on the task at hand rather than keeping their body in a proper driving position. ![]() While it had been a while since we drove an Evo, the model walked away with the title of best-handling car under $40K in 2011. In addition, the stock Lancer saddle raises the H-point (where your hip sits), and you clearly sit on top of this seat, not in it. It wasn’t until we took an on-ramp and were slid across the seat by lateral forces that we noticed the missing bolsters. LOWS: No more Recaros, no more Evo MR at our door, Quoth the Raven "Nevermore."īut we didn’t notice the missing Recaros right away. HIGHS: Neutral chassis, still one of the best-handling cars on the market, no wing means less attention. (In 2014, the Recaro seats came as part of a $1900 package in the MR.) Sure, the X’s Recaros were wider and more accommodating, but they were still very good at keeping a butt planted in the seat. The snug-fitting buckets in the Evo VIII and IX were benchmarks, not only in their small segment, but across the entire industry. To top it all off, for the final year, Mitsubishi isn’t offering the Recaro seats as an option. ![]() We’re all for spartan interiors with just the right amount of function, but when the plastics and trim in a $40,000 car are so cheap you hesitate to put a date in the passenger seat, sometimes the car doesn’t make all that much sense. While the Evo was always the sharpest of the pseudo-rally trio (Evo, Subaru WRX STI, and Volkswagen Golf R), giving no quarter to daily life, all Evos suffered from painfully drab interiors. Unfortunately, being based on the pedestrian Lancer compact didn’t do the car any favors. For the record: The Evo was undefeated in its three comparison tests, which took place in 2003, 2005, and 2008 and covered the three American Evo generations. With sharp reflexes, a strong turbocharged four, four-wheel drive, and a manual transmission, it won our hearts. Americans had to wait until the eighth version of the Evo, which finally was legally imported just over a decade ago. VW R32Īnd like that ice-age feline, the tenth-generation Evo is a killer capable of dispatching much larger prey.
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