📰 Auto News Mitsubishi Evo GSR: 0-60 in 5.0 sec, 1/4 mile 13.8 sec

[Mook]

Our pulpy friends over at 2002 Hogback Road have gotten their hands on the latest version of Mitsubishi's Evo, the Evo X. Car and Driver's November 2007 issue has a preview of the Evo X, and they found that while the new car gives up speed to the outgoing model in a drag race, it kicks it in the teeth if curves are on the menu. Any car that can run a 13.8-second quarter mile is not slow, anyway. Consider that you get that kind of speed for a base price of $30,000, and 295 horsepower from two-liters is impressive. C&D's numbers are from the Evo GSR, and a JDM one at that, but changes for US-bound Evos are down to details.

Putting the 295 horsepower and 300 lb/feet of torque to the ground in a seamless manner is a bucketful of acronyms. There's a new dual-clutch sequential gearbox called Twin-Clutch SST that is bolted to four coordinated systems that get the overall descriptor of Super All Wheel Control. S-AWC combines a center differential with yaw control, stability control, and a rear differential with separate clutches for the left and right wheels. The structure is stiffer and lighter, and in the boy-racer arena, the Evo's always been a sweet driver, which hasn't changed. In fact, the character of the car has become a little less uncouth, which purists may cry about, but the rest of us will just giggle like schoolgirls as the Evo X replicates the video game experience IRL.

(courtesy of autoblog)

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[bluzohh6]

HAHAHAHAHAHA mitsu sucks once again

 

[Mook]

this new one is a faster track car then it is a drag car. its not exactly a failure

 

[bluzohh6]

yeah right you mean to tell me that this heap of ass is faster than the fq400, or whatever is was that was beating lambos around the road coarse? I don't think so

 

[Mook]

...and they found that while the new car gives up speed to the outgoing model in a drag race, it kicks it in the teeth if curves are on the menu...

it doesnt mention the fq and neither do i. an 80,000 evo that we dont get in the states doesnt count as a standard run of the mill evo in my eyes

 

[bluzohh6]

well its not like it doesn't exist mike....Just because we don't get it doesn't mean we ignore it. Its not a unicorn

 

[Mook]

and the new evo is coming in two flavors...the gsr is the slower of the 2

edit: tho i cant imagine the MR being THAT much faster

 

[bluzohh6]

still crap in my eyes

 

[LeddZepp8687]

still crap in my eyes

I'm not a mitsu fan but those skipad results are pretty impressive.

Hate those tailights.

 

[syP]

how different is .88 from .97 on the skidpad?

 

[bluzohh6]

well I guess its a pretty significant difference, any time youre close to 1g on the skid pad youre car is doing ok

 

[Yaj Yak]

how different is .88 from .97 on the skidpad?

well... to put it in perspective...

a comp g is like .82 er something... i dunna if that helps... but .97 is quite nutso for a street car

 

[LeddZepp8687]

.79 G's for the escape. That is pretty damn good for an SUV no?


SHO skidpad is nearly identical to the Comp G. I dont think the SHO is by any means an excellent handing car, but its not bad for a four door. Same goes for the Comp G. Some Magazines have the SHO down for .81 some have it at .87, come have it at .85. Results are all over the board.

To compare this up to most of our cars.

C6Z06: 1.18 and .98 Saw two diff. numbers.
Ford GT: .99 and 1.03 Same thing, two diff. numbers
Dodge Viper SRT-10: 1.05, seems to be the consensus.

 

[bluzohh6]

its not that nutso plenty of other cars are seeing those numbers and higher, which leads me to my next point the ten sucks balls

 

[Yaj Yak]

its not that nutso plenty of other cars are seeing those numbers and higher, which leads me to my next point the ten sucks balls

like what cars at or around 30k new?

im not tryin to be a d bag... im honestly curious.

 

[LeddZepp8687]

its not that nutso plenty of other cars are seeing those numbers and higher, which leads me to my next point the ten sucks balls

You talking about the SRT-10?

In the case that you are, Yes I agree 100% I hate those things. They sound like poo too IMO.