With the launch of the Outlander Sport compact crossover as well as the electric i-MiEV, it seems Mitsubishi Motors is intent on adopting a green image. Word from Japan is that the company is slowly scrapping its sporty-car program in favor of more economical products.

The company’s in-house tuner, Ralliart, has been all but shut down, while plans for the next-generation Lancer Evolution have allegedly been put on hold. However, an inside source tells us that death reports of the next-generation Evo are premature. He informed us that there are still a few people within Mitsubishi who don’t want to see the company’s image car go away, and that development is underway on a plug-in hybrid version of the high-performance sports sedan.

“This way, it will conform to the company’s overall strategic plan of building fuel-efficient cars,” he says. “Yet it will have all the performance that the current Lancer Evo possesses.”

Although nothing is set in stone, it seems that at this point if there is to be another Evo, it will probably have some sort of hybrid option, which is an infinitely better scenario than having no Evo at all. And from what we’ve been told, the new car won’t be a slouch at the test track, either.

fuhh... hybrid looks... rase evo x lagi cun...

i like the colour and the rims... front bumper? 1/10

design very .....

wow this looks better than the other concept images seen so far... hatch format?

if we follow the history... 123 456 789 all 3 gen same chassis... so x 11 n 12 should be same, unless they got new plan :)

i remember reading something few years back saying that they will stop producing Evo ( that time Evo9 ) and concentrate on Colt...
then suddenly came out in the internet they got EvoX...
hmmm...suka hati lah...

Neva tod bout it...

The sporty performance (especially low speed) of a hybrid or all electric car is going to be quite amazing given that electric motors have huge torque!

My guess is that MMC is going to end the era of Evo at X and introduce a new name and start back at 1, 2, 3...

I won't be surprised this successor to Evo X is going to have some Peugeot/Citroen technology in it too

Mayb since Proton taking over the Lancer chassis, they see no point to continue with the Proton Lancer look alike object anymore

But I believe the Spirit of Competition is still to carry on

the design not bad la..but aku xsuke la hatchback..hurm..waiting for the specs n price..kalo mampu,aku nak trade in kereta aku biar die berevolusi ket kan..xpon,aku nak tackle mane2 sugar mami,suh die sponsor aku r35..huhu..iwantttt...

i tot is new version of toyota carina.......??

well they won't dump 1 model becoz of P1..... the cost involved n time doen't justify...

Than what happend to this Version of Evo???

this one is prototype for Evo X, right?

Sold to proton

during training, we spoke about evo xi...

to confirm, the japs dun say anything on evo xi in matter of design or they will stop doing it as seen in some blog... but they did confirmed next evo will be hybrid in some way... this info was gather when mmc came down some times ago...
maybe they visit proton factory :P

In SG ... No more New Evo X coming in liao ... clearing existing stock ... Heard new Model XI wll be in beginning of next year ...

that's great...hopefully more evo X variant half cut coming to malaysia...lalalala...

couldn't remember who's posted regarding the hybrid evo XI ....... but i can remember some of the points ... it is using petrol and electric powered engine but with a new concept with each of the engine controlling the pair of tyres .... 1 for front pair .. another is rear pair .....its like 2 engine working simultaneously (correct me if im wrong .. dunno how to explain regarding that )

..... hmmmfff ...... not sure about the output for this .. but its sounds big to me ... heheh

this is not new, they had tried evo miev, where it's full elect with 1 motor per wheel, guess it's due to cost n prototype... new 1 most likely hybrid with diesel n elec as this prove to be best in fuel safe n low co2 which will qualified them for euro 5 or 6 in future... so with diesel high torque n elect's long drive... someting "fishy" coming soon... frommitsu not proton :)

I personally feels the current EVO X is better looking.....that is way too futuristic.....