Yo, found out something from RALLY ART website...

http://www.mitsubishi-motors.com/motorspor...hoto/index.html

This will be the upcoming rally machine from Mitsubishi Motors in 2008 FIA World Rally Championship.

Enjoy the photos...

Mitsubishi Lancer EVO X Announced as WRC Course Car in Japan

http://www.worldcarfans.com/9071008.012/mi...se-car-in-japan

Updated news....

WRC debut

Since 2005 Mitsubishi has not been taking part as a constructors team in the World Rally Championship (WRC). And although Mitsubishi vowed that they will return in time, the return will actually be faster than most had hoped for. In the upcoming Japanese round of the FIA WRC, or just Rally Japan, the brand new Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution X will be testing the track as a Course Car.

The Evo X Course Car (otherwise known as a Zero-Zero or Zero car) will include various new features like the integrated roll cage with extensive reinforcements and RalliArt purpose-built components for the running gear, brakes and the RalliArt constant-mesh close ratio gearbox. On the exterior, the usual race components can be found including sump-guard, floor guard with fuel tank protection and mud flaps. Inside bucket seats with five-point harness seat the driver and co-pilot.

One of the main motivators for Mitsubishi to supply Rally Japan with the Evo X Course Car is to put the car (and its components) through some rigorous tests. The competition components and parts will be made available before the Evo X makes it to the WRC stage and the WRC team wants to see what their car can do in the field.

Next summer Mitsubishi is expecting to be approved for Group N homologation from the Federation International de L'Automobile (FIA) which would allow a return to WRC half-way 2008 or early 2009.

Press Release

Mitsubishi Motors Corporation has announced that their new-generation high-performance 4WD sedan, the Lancer Evolution X (10) is to be used as the course cars for the Japanese round of the FIA World Rally Championship (WRC). Rally Japan is also the 6th round of the FIA Production Car World Rally Championship (PWRC) and will run in Tokachi, Hokkaido from Friday 26th to Sunday 28th October 2007.

As official the Course cars for Rally Japan, the Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution X will be the vehicles that run though the route and all the demanding stages of the event ahead of the competitors to check track conditions making sure that everything is ready for the 14th round of the WRC. The Course cars, often referred to as the ‘Double Zero’ and ‘Zero’ cars, travel through the course before the competing vehicles, 30-minutes for the Double Zero car and 15-minutes for the Zero car.

The Lancer Evolution X will run on Rally Japan in Group N specification and include various new features that have been developed in close collaboration between the Motor Sport Division / Technical Development Department of Mitsubishi Motors and Ralliart Inc.
Included in these new developments is the integrated of the roll cage into the body of the car with extensive reinforcements resulting in the cars strength and stiffness being drastically upgraded from the normal road-going version. Purpose-built components have been used for the running gear and brakes with drive-train components specially developed by Ralliart featuring a constant-mesh close-ratio gearbox.

The exterior of the Lancer Evolution X Group N will use accessories usually found on all high-performance vehicles and familiar to all rally enthusiasts including sump-guard, floor guard with fuel tank protection and mud flaps. In the cockpit additional safety features have been added including five-point safety harnesses for the crew with bucket seats and a competition steering wheel.
As Course cars on Rally Japan, the Mitsubishi Lance Evolution Xs used will have revolving roof lights as well as a siren and loudspeaker to warn the many thousands a of spectators expected on the stages that the competitors will be arriving shortly.

The Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution X is scheduled to obtain the Group N homologation from the Federation International de L'Automobile (FIA) next summer with the new rally challenger taking part in international rallies during the second half of 2008 or 2009. Registration with the Japan Automobile Federation (JAF) will be applied this year, allowing competitors to participate in JAF-sanctioned events with the new-generation Lancer Evolution X.

The development of the official reconnaissance vehicle plays a leading role when it comes to supplying competition parts/components to the customer early on. Also, the participation as course car will allow the automobile manufacturer and the rally specialist to technically verify the potential of rally cars prepared by customers who use these special components. Mitsubishi Motors and Ralliart are fully committed to making maximum use of the know-how and expertise learned through various motor sport activities to support future customers and for the development of the production model.

Slurp Slurp .. very delicious! my all time favorite car! EVO! EVO!

Dcspeed, you should target for this larrr....

I dont know how anyone can blink while seeing this...I love the car! front, back everywher!

Yo bro LanGT, you should trade in your Evo 8 GSR for this EVO X ... I guess by the time you got your Lancer GT, the new EVO X already on sale in Malaysia.....

For me, I don't have RM300k to spend on this EVO X lar..... haha....

guess wat... before this evo can race, got ppl in other forum already start to mempersialsuikan the evo, say scare enter race lar, only aprc lar not fia wrc n bla bla bla... sick fellas out there

Haiz....there are always ppl like tat. No worries, let the Evo do d talking.

Dcspeed, if i have 300K to spend on a car I rather pay up and settle my housing installament first. That's more practical loh...

Moreover, owning a sport car in m'sia is quite expensive and worrying.

Me too... Have a put a Stoplock all the time lor....

then we mod to lookalike lor, cut holli in bumper, ash gray color paint it, n put second radiator or oil cooler big one at front, hehe

Actually it's true. Don't have to mod completely the same. same engine mah. Those modifications stated above are good enough. At least we are not changing Wira or Waja into Evo or Subaru...! Tha's what i call 'self deception'

one good thing about our gt is, even we mode to evo, no need JPJ/PUSPAKOM, same engine block, so we use all from half cut, but use back same engine block, rest of the pistons rods all change, so our engine number remian same, but we're evo baby... wow... cool huh...

or you could wait for the bolt on turbo kit. hehe

guys, can cvt cope with turbo????

its has been tested in US where they tried on lancer cvt. of course the power is close to 200hp not more than that.

if so can race with stock golf gti already lo...