There's no better place for hot Evos than here in Britain - and they don't come much hotter than this
There's no better place for hot Evos than here in Britain - and they don't come much hotter than thisWe got pretty lucky with our choice of Mitsubishi Evo here in the UK. Most Japanese carmakers love to launch their most engaging models for their devoted home market, and in some cases build cars to a higher standard for the JDM, leaving us Brits to fork out thousands on bringing them over or picking up a spanner and doing the tuning work ourselves. Not so with the Evo.
Of course the reality is that these UK-only specials didn’t actually come from Mitsubishi. Instead, the company’s importer and WRC squad, Ralliart UK, got to their hands on the ‘normal’ Japanese-grade Lancer Evos the moment they came off the boat and dialled them up to 11.
By 2003, Ralliart had managed to extract 408hp from the Evo VIII’s 2.0-litre engine with the bonkers FQ-400. Performance was obviously devastating, hitting 62mph from a standstill in 3.5 seconds and 100mph in just over nine.
Moreover, there were plenty of visual and interior upgrades to sweeten the already mouth-watering deal, namely a carbon splitter, wing, the plush interior from the MR and a set of 17-inch Speedline wheels. Couple that with everything that made the standard model great and you get the perfect send-off to the Evo IX.
On a more positive note, you can relive Mitsubishi’s glory days with this four-owner car that has covered just 38,785 miles since 2007, and surprisingly doesn’t appear to have been modified beyond all the work Ralliart, Mitsubishi Racing and HKS put into it. That in itself is a rarity, given that only 200 were produced for the UK market. The seller’s asking for £56,995, which is certainly on the pricey side though it is a low-mileage example that’ll no doubt garner huge collector interest.
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