So you're jonesin' for an Evo X, but at nearly $40,000 your stacks are a bit short? You needn't worry any longer. Sure, all that juiced-up WRC bodywork looks great, and 291 horsepower is more than enough to get your daily fix, but when you get right down to it, all you really want is a turbocharged engine and all-wheel-drive. And you probably don't want to spend BMW money to get those things. Mitsubishi feels your pain and has issued the 2009 Lancer Ralliart as the remedy, a sub-$30,000 car that has the potential to put performance enthusiasts behind the wheels of Mitsus the way Eclipses once did...
If it comes in around the mid-$20's, it should be one of the best performance bargains available.
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smart move, mitsu. The new WRX makes a lot of people ill. This is good medicine.
This is a good strategy. Figure it should price out around $25K, which is right in the thick of the real sport compact market. It has most of everything an enthusiast would want, plus those soon-to-be-totaled Evo X's will be organ donors to many of these Ralliart Lancers.
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Unfortunately, hackin' it is a way of life in auto journalism. Hemingway was able to drive an ambulance and write a book; most of these guys couldn't do either.
This is a good strategy. Figure it should price out around $25K, which is right in the thick of the real sport compact market. It has most of everything an enthusiast would want, plus those soon-to-be-totaled Evo X's will be organ donors to many of these Ralliart Lancers.
The Mitsu folks say "Under $27,000" which to me means $26,999.
The Mitsu folks say "Under $27,000" which to me means $26,999.
That's in Pkg II pricing of the GTI area, but a bit over the MS3. The WRX also comes in at around $25K. I know it amounts to 8% of a difference, but pricing it $2K lower will make it a bit more competitive, IMO, since Mitsubishi dealers aren't getting a lot of foot traffic, I'd imagine.
Quote, originally posted by Viergang Fuchs »
Unfortunately, hackin' it is a way of life in auto journalism. Hemingway was able to drive an ambulance and write a book; most of these guys couldn't do either.
That's in Pkg II pricing of the GTI area, but a bit over the MS3. The WRX also comes in at around $25K. I know it amounts to 8% of a difference, but pricing it $2K lower will make it a bit more competitive, IMO, since Mitsubishi dealers aren't getting a lot of foot traffic, I'd imagine.
And it probably would be around there with a manual trans, but Mitsu really wants to show off the new twin-clutch, not to mention get a return on the investment.
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smart move, mitsu. The new WRX makes a lot of people ill. This is good medicine. 