Sources familiar with Japan’s car industry are expecting Mitsubishi to launch a Crossover version of the Lancer Sportback as early as 2010. The news comes after numerous Japanese car magazines have published speculative renders of a normal Lancer jacked up with raised suspension and plastered with ugly cladding to serve as side body panels. The [...]

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Japanese car fans, or anyone for that matter, probably knows of the grudge rivalry between Mitsubishi and Subaru fan-boys. With a new generation of Evo and WRX models out, that rivalry is only heightened with speculative claims from both sides. But which car is really the next king of rally? Leave it to Top Gear’s [...]

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I’ve always been a fan of Nihon Car, and for good reason - the guys over there take their hobby very seriously, so much so that tuners leak tantilizing tid bits to them directly. This time around HKS blog shared this nice picture of their amazing tuned Evo X.
Not much is known about the car [...]

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Mitsubishi is really serious about stretching the Lancer range as far as possible in an effort to fit every niche available. The Lancer Ralliart was just one way of plugging into the Subaru Impreza market, but still, Mitsubishi was missing a utility hatchback. That is, until they created the Mitsubishi Sportback. Mitsubishi’s answer to the [...]

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Here we have it. The jaw dropping price tag for the car you’ve been drooling over is 32,990 plus some for the fat cats. Interested? Full price release ahead.

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It didn’t take long for someone to put these two cars side by side. Kazuo Shimizu and Manabu Kawaguchi devoted an afternoon to race around Tsukuba circuit. The numbers?

Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution X : 1:06:46
Subaru Impreza WRX STI : 1:05:95

Compare that to Mine’s Skyline GTR we that went around in 1:03:1 and you have two very [...]

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When I got the press kit for the Mitsubishi Evolution, or the Mitsubishi X in some markets, there was a huge bulging red prototype smack dab in the middle. Fast forward to now and that very same prototype has gone into production. Surprise! Really? Not really.

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