📰 Auto News Mitsubishi Confirms Hybrid 2014 Evo XI

[Mook]

"We will start work on the project next year, and it will be ready within three. I have set the goal of developing a sporting car featuring electric power." -- Osamu Masuko, President of Mitsubishi Motors.

This latest batch of Evo XI hybrid news comes, like the rest, from Britains Autocar magazine. Masuko was thin on details on the new project, which we'd fully expec't from a product just entering the development phase, but Autocar is still expecting the hybrid Evo to be a diesel.

A diesel hybrid Evo would certainly help with emissions while still providing serious low- and mid-range power. Sure, it'll piss off the Evo loyalists, but they're all driving Evo IXs anyway.

While we're certainly worried about the cost of this vehicle (bringing a diesel into the U.S. isn't cheap), we're not instantly turned off by the idea of an Evo with torque that can get more than 11 mpg when pushed.

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[Eagle]

DIESEL YOU SAY!?

 

[willizm]

Weird, this whole cafe thing is really shakin up different approaches for development teams. I'd like to see if it works.

 

[10sec]

Another reason to make the next model heavier.

 

[Bob Kazamakis]

A big heavy iron diesel engine will sure bring on the weight!


I think a gas/hybrid would be pretty cool actually in a performance car.

 

[Bru]

An Evo hybrid with KERS-like system would be sweet. Diesel Evo hybrid? Pass.

 

[Primalzer]

Huh. This is quite interesting, gas+hybrid+sports car=win, diesel+hybrid+sports car=?

 

[MikeyLikesIt]

Manufacturers need to start figuring out how to increase their average MPG at a fleet level, I guess this is the start.

Chevy is starting a plant to make diesels for the Cruze.

The diesels are coming! I just wish one would show up in fricken 1/2 ton where there is actually demand.

 

[Mitchubishievo]

And this is why I'll always have my awesomely light, super rare Evo IX RS.

 

[Outlaw]

In4Diesel, not for electric

 

[Chester Copperpot]

DIESEL YOU SAY!?

+11ty

 

[RICH17]

Weight isnt going to be our biggest problem with this. It will be the cost. They need to make a godzilla killer IMO. Bring back the GTO/3000GT

 

[Dasfinc]

Weight isnt going to be our biggest problem with this. It will be the cost. They need to make a godzilla killer IMO. Bring back the GTO/3000GT

GTO was a FWD small displacement V-6 IIRC?

If this isn't the GTO, what the hell is it?

 

[RICH17]

No idea what that is. The GTO was just a 3000gt in japan. Since we already had the GTO here as a nameplate.

 

[Euro]

Remembering from the old Gran Turismo games, Das I think that's the FTO? Idk.

 

[Dasfinc]

Remembering from the old Gran Turismo games, Das I think that's the FTO? Idk.

Yup, you're absolutely right , always thought it was the GTO .

 

[Euro]

Surprised I remembered that, I don't think I've noticed one since the first or second GT

 

[Typhoon]

Diesels are so dirty, loud, smelly & heavy. It will never work.

 

[Yaj Yak]

i love when people say shit like that

 

[THEHKP7M13]

Manufacturers need to start figuring out how to increase their average MPG at a fleet level, I guess this is the start.

Chevy is starting a plant to make diesels for the Cruze.

The diesels are coming! I just wish one would show up in fricken 1/2 ton where there is actually demand.