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Seven years ago, I unwrapped my fingers from the thin-rimmed council caster of the aboriginal 2008 Lancer Evolution MR and sat back. Wow. Its agent was hot and active and its tires were feathered afterwards a three-day weekend of ballsy driving. Yet admitting actuality baffled up by the paint-shaker ride and ear-ringing noise, I was already attractive for excuses to adhere on to the keys longer.
Flash-forward to now, as my fingers already afresh coil about the Evo’s accustomed council caster — this one acceptance to its about banausic 2015 edition, the Evo’s last. Weird. Here I am sitting in a car with the brand “Evolution” on its rump, yet all about me this berth ability as able-bodied be an automotive time capsule. Kind of ironic.Of course, the Evo’s competitors and my own crumbling accuracy of them accept acquired a lot in the aftermost seven years. Will I adore active this final archetypal year of the allegorical Lancer about as much? Gripping that old caster again, I’m not so sure.
Except for the Touring Package’s ($2,000) advanced covering seats and the Navigation Package’s ($2,375) 7-inch touchscreen, the amplitude remained mostly as it was in 2008. Which, in a word, is p-l-a-i-n. Within the simple barometer binnacle, a anachronous drive approach indicator bisects the crumbling tachometer and speedometer, and some appealing chintzy-looking plastics frames the leash of old-time altitude ascendancy knobs. And sadly, one of its old highlights — its Recaro action seats (some of the best anytime offered by an OEM) — accept been axed. Win some, lose some; time to blaze up the agent and set off.
Meandering forth L.A.’s avenues, I no best charge to crank the 710-watt Rockford Fosgate arrangement to subdue the beforehand annoy babble of the Yokohama Advan A13C’s and the din of the 2.0-liter turbo engine. The Touring Package’s added complete analgesic has fabricated the little assemblage car acutely beneath clamorous.
But afterwards a mile or so in Santa Monica, the ride already starts to annoy my passengers. “It still rides bigger and is quieter than the (long-term) STI,” my girlfriend, Tiffany, observes, aggravating to be positive. (As my primary shotgun, her ride acumen is as agog as they come.) But it’s an angled compliment. The Bilsten dampers, Eibach springs, and 25mm front/23mm rear balance confined still jostle your belly and telegraph the pavement’s every pebble.
The Mitsubishi’s six-speed Twin-Clutch Sportronic Shift Transmission (TC-SST) still dislikes banal speeds. “Smooth” has never been one of its traits, abnormally aback transitioning from anchor to burke in traffic. But again I adventure assimilate a aback road. I appoint the gearbox’s Action approach and accelerate the gearshift into Manual. “Tarmac” shows on the Super-All Caster Ascendancy (S-AWC) screen. I sit up and annihilate the throttle.
In a split-second, all gripes vanish. Exciting acceleration happens. Louder babble happens. The cloister pipes abandon tinny vocals that advantage my aerial and acuminate my focus. Shifts become quicker. I angle the caster off-center. The hydraulically assisted captain tugs aback in a smooth, ample manner.
Then the Evo’s able takes centermost stage. Its sure-footedness gives me abeyance because of its immediacy. Talk about abounding grip. The Evo flourishes in the esses. It took 24.5 abnormal at an boilerplate 0.94 g to beat our amount eight (the quickest tenth-gen we’ve sampled). On the skidpad the Evo averaged 0.98 g, which agency it’s additionally the stickiest.
All 300 lb-ft feel actual and always available. Beautiful. Putting its torque, additional its 291 horsepower, on pavement agency ridiculously accelerated bend exits. In a beeline line, it needs aloof 5.1 abnormal to get to 60 mph. Curbing big drive requires no big effort. The 13.8-inch front, 13.0-inch rear Brembos abate it. From 60 mph, the 3,600-pound Evo needs 105 anxiety to arrest entirely. They achromatize not in the atomic bit during my abundance alley attack.
True, the Evo MR is an age-old dog. Its accessories is antiquated. Its ammunition abridgement is laughable. It’s almost comfortable. It now has abominable chrome portholes on its advanced fenders. It’s pricey. Yet throughout all this time, it has backward accurate to its roots. That in itself is its accuracy and downfall. It is additionally cogent of the aggregation that it comes from.
The Evo MR charcoal a awful able athlete. Turn up your own action level, and it never fails to respond. One can alone achievement Mitsubishi’s engineers are active evolving the Evolution in all the appropriate means because to annihilate off this bloodline would be a massive disservice to a approaching bearing of car enthusiasts. Until such a fantasy car arrives, I’ll abide to abundance this Evo’s keys whenever accustomed the chance.
