MITSUBISHI AUSTRALIA has today launched a new television commercial featuring the Lancer Evolution “as it has never been seen before”.

The commercial features an entirely computer-generated Evolution and a backdrop that Mitsubishi says was inspired by the popular science fiction film Bladerunner.

While the featured Evo is a computer-fiction, some live action footage was used in [...]

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MITSUBISHI HAS ANNOUNCED a number of updates to the Japanese-market 2010 Mitsubishi Evolution X. The word from Mitsubishi Australia is that some of these tweaks may make the leap to the Australian model.

Slightly thicker side skirts run along the bottom of the doors, and lighter plastics feature up front, weighing 1.5kg less [...]

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The Poms might not have our pristine beaches, beaut weather and icy cold beer, but they have scored the latest Mitsubishi Lancer Evo X FQ-330 SST, with 25kW and 71Nm of torque more than our top-spec Evo MR. Oh, and the new Evo also comes with a neat array of kit.

The FQ-330 sports Mitsubishi’s 6-speed [...]

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If the Evo X is already a stunning piece of machinery, what happens when you tweak one for motorsport? We pulled on a helmet, strapped up the harness and found out…

How, exactly, do you build a better mousetrap? Mitsubishi’s Evolution X has been on sale for a while now, and countless aftermarket tuners are getting [...]

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The South Yorkshire Police Force have finished pondering and added a new Mitsubishi Evolution X to the fleet. It’s now clearly a case of three strikes and you’re out with the Evo X joining an Evo VIII and IX already seeing duty down town. While one Evo is menacing enough, the idea of being chased by [...]

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Last weekend started out rather strangely.

Having sauntered down to the carpark Saturday morning, I couldn’t resist having a long look around the silver Evo X that had just been dropped over to me. Sure, I’d seen and been in the new Evo before, but another look over the flared guards and vented bonnet wouldn’t do [...]

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Coming soon to Victorian highways – nestled among the bushes, packin’ a radar gun, two pair of mirror shades, a ball-point pen and a sheaf of unfilled speeding tickets – is this brand spanking new Evo X. It was recently snapped in bristling highway-patrol livery at VicPol’s Brunswick Street headquarters. (One of TMR’s dedicated team [...]

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With the modified Evo X having proven itself in the recent Britcar 24hr Endurance event, Mitsubishi UK has given the all-clear for production of a road-going version, to be dubbed the FQ400.

While this is not the first time Mitsubishi has produced a hotted-up homegrown Evo, it was unclear, until now, if the new generation Evo [...]

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While specifications are nowhere to be seen, on looks alone the Evo X Interceptor is an impressive bit of gear. Presented at last month’s National Association of Police Fleet Managers Exhibition, the Evo X could potentially see active duty on the streets of the UK.

The images follow from recent news that the Victorian Police have adopted an [...]

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A no-holds-barred TMR ‘drive-off’. Which is king of the heap? And if you’re in the market for a four-paw hammer, which should you put in the garage – Mitsubishi’s raw-boned EVO X, or Volkswagen’s scintillating Golf R32?

At 160km/h, Mitsubishi’s Lancer Evolution X begins to make sense. At 180, flicking down, then powering through a tightening [...]

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Mitsubishi UK will be making a return to circuit racing this weekend when it rolls up to the starting grid of the Britcar Championship 24 hour endurance event at Silverstone, in a race-prepared Evolution X. The 300kW Lancer will be punted around the track by former British Touring Car Championship regular James Kaye. As Kaye intends [...]

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Robert McEniry, president and chief executive officer of Mitsubishi Motors Australia Limited (MMAL), is rightfully a little proud of the Evo X, he is also impressed with the storm of interest that the all-new model has helped foster in the Mitsubishi brand.

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