Car and Driver: 2008 Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution GSR

Written By: MyRide.com
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All-grown-up EVO's array of new controls takes it through turns faster than ever

By: Michael Austin
Photo by: Mitsubishi

Updating an automotive icon like the Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution is an unenviable task. After three generations and nine versions only the last two have been sold in the U.S. the ultimate interpretation of a rally-car-for-the-street theme is difficult to improve on, but it's also getting a bit old. To use the obvious pun, how can the Evolution evolve? The answer is here in the form of the 10th-version, fourth-generation car, known as the Evolution X in Japan. In the U.S. it will simply be called the Lancer Evolution, but for the sake of clarity, we'll use the Roman numeral that signifies all things extreme in referring to the car.

The Evo X is less communicative, larger, heavier, and slower compared with the previous Evo. It's the inevitable trade-off that occurs when a car strives for more refinement. The steering, for one, no longer has that high-tension-wire responsiveness that made the old car such fun. If you're an Evo fan boy, you can stop reading right now.

If you're still with us, you'll be glad to know that the Evo X drives like nothing else in the world. You simply point the car where you want to go, and the various elements of the all-wheel-drive system sort out how to make it happen.

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