Mitsubishi Announces 'Final Edition' Evo for Diehards

by Aaron Cole

Updated: December 30th, 2020 Published: October 8th, 2015

mitsubishi announces final edition evo for diehards

Mitsubishi announced Wednesday it would make available 1,600 “Final Edition” Lancer Evolution cars to commemorate the departure of the long-running sports sedan.

The cars will be based on Evolution GSR and include the same 2-liter, turbocharged four-cylinder engine that produces 303 horsepower and 305 pound-feet of torque. The engine is mated to a 5-speed manual transmission with all-wheel drive and will start at $37,995.

Mitsubishi will include numbered badges on the cars, a black roof, dark chrome wheels and how much are they asking again?

The Evolution was on sale in the U.S. for 12 years during a much longer, more successful run worldwide that included 10 generations.

Mitsubishi didn’t announce when the cars would go on sale in the U.S.

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Quentin on Oct 08, 2015

Sad to see it go. Goodnight, LanEvo.

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Brock_Landers on Oct 09, 2015

Oh man, the internet... 1. Is this car even relevant with the Focus RS hitting the market? 2. Lower power, lower tech, lower build quality, lower brand recognition, higher d-bag appearance. 3. OR, and I’m just saying – Golf R. 4. Golf R, Focus RS, Civic Type-R… All of them costing similar money, and all of them designed in the current decade. $40k Mishitting Evo? PASS! Are you guys kidding me??? Is this a enthusiast site? Smells like autoblog.com comments section! The current (and even more the past models) Evo is basically a pure race car for the streets. It has its roots strongly in Group A/N rallying and current X model is also the most popular Group N car in rallying. For those who don't know - FIA Group N is referred to a set of regulations providing 'standard' production vehicles for competition, often referred to as the "Showroom Class". Group N cars are limited in terms of modifications made from standard specification. Long gone are the days you could buy a Group A homologation special from the showroom floor - BMW M3 E30 or Lancia Delta HF Integrale or in japan Skyline GT-R etc. Evo X is the last connection to this breed of cars. Essentially you can buy true race-car technology and feeling that is ready and legal for the street. STI used to be like this, but it has gone soft and lost its focus with the latest generations. The Evo X IS a focused car. Focused on one thing - going fast around corners. There is so much marketing BS going around these days, manufacturers trying to connect their new go-fast models to racing history that happened 30-40 years ago. Technically and even spiritually there is no continuous bloodline to the true racing cars of the past - its only marketing trying to push the new boring product. But this is not the case with Evo. Evo is the true last representative of the now dead pure-breed rally car for the street. Have you even driven the Evo X? This car is pure enthusiast bliss. Cheap interior - yes. Outdated styling - yes. Crap everyday (city commute in heavy traffic) driving characteristics - yes. BUT... When you start pushing the car, it takes you to a level involvement, precision and joy that is hard to describe in words. Level which only maybe 911 RS models can offer.

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- 05lgt on Oct 09, 2015
  
  thank you.
  
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- LS1Fan on Oct 09, 2015
  
  Perhaps you're lucky enough to commute to work on a rally track. The rest of us spend most of our days crawling at snail-speed on surface streets or freeways , to and from work. Driving a "race car" in that regime sucks .Pushing a car like an Evo at the limit on a public road is an invitation to a court date-or a YouTube segment on "US Car Wrecks".It may be a religious driving experience. Pity .01% of car buyers have the skill to safely find out. Oh, and Mitsu is leaving the US market. Good luck getting parts at a reasonable cost in five years for a discontinued " race car ". The competition not only makes more modern options, they're civilized automobiles you can actually drive to work without needing chiropractic assistance .Oh, and they're cheaper.
  
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- Brenschluss on Oct 09, 2015
  
  @LS1Fan Less than .01% of car buyers ever bought these in the first place for exactly the reasons you've stated. I'm with those who love what this car stands for, and feel some sense of ennui for it leaving the marketplace with no proven replacement as of yet. You're probably correct that a very small percentage would be able to use a car like this responsibly, but that truth, that our publicly-funded paved surfaces are used primarily by "average" [fnord] people who don't even consider spatial cogency important, is the problem which leads to those of us who enjoy highly effective terrestrial transportation hoping desperately for those who don't to get their Googly cars ASAP.
  
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- EAF on Oct 09, 2015
  
  @LS1Fan An entertaining video IMO, if ever you guys are bored at work, of a Golf R | Evo X comparison. Heavy hatred for the Evo on the street, 180 degree turn around when it is tracked. The exact attributes Brock posted above. m.youtube.com/watch?v=y4uDzeDP1eo
  
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- Brenschluss on Oct 09, 2015
  
  @EAF Never trust those who aren't willing pull a fuse to disable ESP at a track.
  
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- EAF on Oct 10, 2015
  
  @brenschluss I don't believe removing a fuse would work, at least not without other unintended consequences such as ABS disable. You can flash & defeat traction control. May as well upload new boost/ignition/fuel maps in the process. Maybe some new sway bars and some tires. OR just buy a better track car, cue in (Evo 8-10).
  
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- Theirishscion on Oct 12, 2015
  
  @Brock_Landers You get it, thank you. I'm sufficiently tired of trying to explain this to alleged driving enthusiasts that I've just stopped trying. (Which bit of 'just because it's not _your_ bag doesn't mean it's not a legitimate choice in the marketplace' don't you understand?) I voted with my bucks on a '14 5-door STI (which is a lot crisper than the '08 fall-from-grace era STI, though it looks identical) precisely because I wanted my almost-rally-car to be a little more street-able and 5-door'd. I adore the bonkers-ness of the Evos, I wish they weren't going away, though I am grateful that Subaru doesn't appear to have softened the '15 STI any so maybe there's hope yet. I shall hold a moment's silence when the last of the Evos rolls of the assembly line though.
  
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