We’ve recently spent a bit of time behind the wheel of Mitsubishi’s latest Evo and the tightly-wound little jigger is one of the office favourites at The Motor Report. So when news reached us that a competition version was debuting this week, we had to find out more about it.

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Late last week, Mitsubishi Motors Corporation announced the addition of the AWD Ralliart trim level to the Galant Fortis sedan series or as we know it, the Lancer. Built to take on Subaru’s basic WRX the Lancer Ralliart is an Evo in a cheaper, more sedate suit. But don’t be thinking [...]

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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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Mitsubishi are yet to release official details concerning their Evo X Australian line-up, but if you know where to look… The Aussie Evo X line-up will feature three variants, the GSR, GSR SS-T and the top shelf MR.

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The new Subaru WRX has truly thrown the cat amongst the pigeons for lovers of the turbo boxer engined AWD legend. Some think it has gone soft, others think it has grown up, and most think that its looks have faded. However, the STi version of the WRX is altogether a different proposition, from its [...]

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It’s not the 1st of April but I’d still be taking this one with a grain of salt, for the time being at least. These images have appeared on the JustPut.com forum with the claim that they are quite possibly a Mazda RX-9 Concept, due for production in 2012. Not being a big fan of [...]

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In what amounts to great news for performance hatch enthusiasts, Ford have confirmed that their Focus RS hatch will go into production and to celebrate, they’ve released the now standard teaser image, but this time there is nothing bad to hide – it looks hot.

The Focus RS hatch will be the most recent iteration of [...]

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Today the new Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution X goes on sale in Japan, and details have arisen from the company’s official press release about different specifications of Evo’s available.

PRESS RELEASE

Tokyo, October 1, 2007 - Mitsubishi Motors Corporation announces today that it will launch the Lancer Evolution X high-performance 4WD sedan, newest of the company’s legendary vehicles, [...]

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While its probably not the usual Carupdate “cup-of-tea” Mitsubishi have released pictures of their new Concept CX small SUV and we thought we had better give you a look-see.

Based on the new Lancer platform the Concept CX is to put it politely, rather unique looking. It features the ‘gaping maw’ front end that we [...]

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We have recently seen a similar occurrence with Porsche’s new GT2 brochure being leaked onto the internet before the cars official pictures and specs were released. It’s now happened again with the Mitsubishi EVO X!

A good month or three away from its official release someone has managed to snaffle the official Japanese brochure and post [...]

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It has been confirmed that the new Mitsubishi Evo X will be offered with a standard manual gearbox and an optional ‘hard-core’ clutchless paddle shift six-speed.

The paddleshift gearbox which can be operated manually will also offer three modes of operation, normal, sport and ‘super’ sport. Normal and sport settings are for everyday road use while [...]

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The following spy photos of Mitsubishi’s tenth generation Lancer Evolution confirm that styling wise it very closely follows the Prototype X concept car first seen at January’s Detroit Motor Show.

The new Mitsubishi Evo X is expected to break cover officially at the Tokyo Motor Show in October of this year. The schizophrenic road rocket has [...]

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