I saw the new EVON3 at the Tuscaloosa Mitsubitchy dealership. They are wanting 35,000 for this thing lmao. AWD and only 271 HP a riced up Lancer is all it is. Crazy !!!!

 

You mean the EVO 3, it's a pretty bad *** car, but the STI is gonna whoop it.

 

The EVO 3 is pretty sweet, but I doubt the STI will whoop it.

 

You mean the Evo 8?

The STi will whoop on the American version of the Evo 8, no doubt about it. Mitsubishi removed too much to get the Evo 8 down to an acceptable price-point in the US.

Now, the true Evo 8 and STi are really closely matched.

 

thanks for the corrections guys i know little about these cars. I try and buy cubic inches when i want HP not wings and stickers

 

Jwasted
havent seen much of you lately. I ran my truck at BAMA the other day. I ran a 8.6 with a 2.3 60' 87.6 mph spinning half way down the track. You gonna be in town soon?

 

There will be tons of those little EVOs and STi's running out there that will hand you your **** after a couple of months.

These things are not ricers and by far one of the nicest Japanese cars we've had the pleasure of receiving on this side of the big lake. Right up there with the Supra, 300z, and RX7 imo.

 

Yea the EVO 8 is a very nice car. But some of the mark ups are ridiculous one dealer around here is asking around $50,000 for one. Thats a $20,000 mark up

 

Im not much of a ricer fan

 

I will be in jasper this weekend bro. I was in jasper about 2 weeks ago and raced a truck from cullman. ( Chevy 1988 model or so) said he had a 383 stroker in it. I walked off from him bad lol, we ran em at the trussell coming back from carbon hill. Then his buddy in a black Z28 beat me. He got me out of the hole somthing fierce and i never caught up. He was a manual and lives up the fall city road he said. Let me know if your gonna be out this weekend. I am about to start buying parts for the truck finally.

 

Ill sell you my 2lber. you can run it with no chip. If you dont have a K&N filter that would be a good mod to do. I will be in town this weekend so ill give you a call or you can call me.PS since the last time you saw my truck i got a JDM silver bullet catback, boost gauge, a ported throtle body, intercooler pump switch and fan.I also have some metco upper link traction bars ordered and some nitto 555r's.

 

Only 271 hp? hmm, find another car on the U.S. market today that has more hp than that, or even close to that. I think the only thing that comes close is the S2000 with has 240 hp, and even then that has something like 157 ft-lb of torque, and the Evo 8 has 273 ft-lb of torque. Thats amazing for a 2.0 liter 4 banger. While we make 70.37 hp per liter, they make 135.5 hp per liter. I believe the STi will have a 2.5 liter 4 cylinder, which gives it 120 hp per liter, so the Evo 8 still makes more power per liter than the STi or our trucks. Besides, just wait till someone gets one of these and starts modding it by putting in a huge turbo and NOS, they will be faster than any other lightning, in my opinion.

I used to have a Mitsubishi Eclipse GT spyder, and i used to talk crap about american cars all the time. Until i drove both i knew that they were both different and good in their own ways. So dont be putting down this lancer, u might pull up next to one at a red light and get ure a$$ handed to you.

Oh, did i mention, I'm pretty sure it gets a hell of a lot more miles to the gallon than our 10 mpg lightings.

 

LoL i agree with you man it may just smoke me, and i know almost anything gets better gas milage then these trucks.

I just don't think it's worth 35k for the car is all. There is a market for everybody and that market is not for me. I ain't downing ricers all together. I used to have a turbo 300Z. I thought that car was great, but way to high priced for me at the time.

I whould rather buy a 23k mustang GT, and put a 7k steeda package on it. Then walk off and leave that 35k car? 400hp -vs-271.

 

But u gotta think of it this way too, thats 271 hp under warrenty, your not gonna get a mustang thats that fast that also has warrenty, well the new cobras arent too much more and faster too, but i would not be surpriesed if the EVO 8 has better handling cause of the 4 wheel drive and all that japanese stuff, lol.

 

These threads always amuse me. What is a "ricer"? If the definition is based solely on country of origin, then I guess my buddy's Supra TT must be a "ricer", but its still a sweet car. Another friend showed up at my last auto-x and kicked my a$$ with his modified NSX, but I guess it's just a "ricer", too. I've owned a few "ricers", and every one of them was built better and much more reliable than my Lightning (which is now in the shop for the umpteenth time). And beware, although there are lots of Civics out there with big fart cans, wings, and lots of stickers, and nothing to back it up, there are some that will run 10s and hand you your head. Now don't get me wrong. I like my Canadian truck, warts and all. There is something that's indescribably cool about driving a big ole pick-em-up that can blow the doors off a Viper. Furthermore, I will not buy Japanese again, but for issues not related to quality or performance. But to dismiss all Jap cars as "ricers", and not worthy of respect because they were built in Ohio or Tennessee and not Oakville strikes me as incredibly naive and chauvinistic.