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MITSU OFFICIALY CANCELS FUTURE EVOs

Postby aussie027 » Sun Mar 13, 2011 6:47 am

Announced in todays Sunday Times Motoring section--

Company global products director announces Evo Lancer line to be dropped to concentrate on electric vehicles.

8 new electric and hybrids planned by 2015. :( :( :(
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Postby SAM-24A » Sun Mar 13, 2011 7:31 am

That probably means they will also drop the Ralliart.

Noooooooooooooooooooooo!! :(

I was hoping they would make it better & quicker so I could consider an upgrade. :cry:

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Postby sleeper » Sun Mar 13, 2011 7:38 am

oh and CJ`s in general :(
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Postby Gleno » Sun Mar 13, 2011 7:46 am

Would it be dropped immediatly?? Or until the next model comes out??
Im suprised, but in another way im not considering it would be weird having a EVO running on batteries???? Even a hybrid EVO im not sure if future customers would take to that well.

Im all for the hybrids and batteries for future cars,we have to go that way, i feel petrol prices eventually will be unaffordable for the average motorist.

As long as they still have a Aspire model as thats next on my list :)

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Postby SAM-24A » Sun Mar 13, 2011 8:14 am

Hey Glen,
No matter what Mitsu does, I think they will always have an Aspire.

It's their trademark model designation as is:
Calais for Holden.
Ghia for Ford.
etc etc.

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Postby Gleno » Sun Mar 13, 2011 8:32 am

SAM-24A wrote:Hey Glen,
No matter what Mitsu does, I think they will always have an Aspire.

It's their trademark model designation as is:
Calais for Holden.
Ghia for Ford.
etc etc.

Sam :wink:


Yeah your right there sam,love the aspires,i personally wouldnt mod a aspire that much ,maybe wheels,there pretty much got everything :)

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Postby SAM-24A » Sun Mar 13, 2011 8:37 am

Glen said:
Yeah your right there sam,love the aspires,i personally wouldnt mod a aspire that much ,maybe wheels,there pretty much got everything Smile


They don't have a Sun Glasses Holder, but I'm working on it.

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Postby vlad_the_impaler » Sun Mar 13, 2011 8:39 am

shooot!!! that's sucks!
my plans was to get back to lancer/evo withe the next edition (in 2-3 years)... :shock:

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Postby dannyboi » Sun Mar 13, 2011 8:56 am

Like the Evo, but unfortunately it's one of those things that I wouldn't buy if I had that amount of cash.

Disappointing to see it go, but Mitsubishi is trying to take up what they see is a good business plan. Hero cars are cool, but they don't bring in the money.

Would suck if the Ralliart goes though, as I wouldn't mind getting that for whatever comes after the CJ.

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Postby Shifta » Sun Mar 13, 2011 11:54 am

that's crap... sure, they're going to make more money off it. but if they remove their performance line (including the ralliart if it happens), they're also removing an entire group of marketing through performance cars on movies/games etc...
young kids wont want to be playing the future gran turismo's in hybrids and battery cars... so goodbye advertisement for mitsubishi to still be making "cool cars"
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Postby BR14AN » Sun Mar 13, 2011 11:55 am

Looks like im getting a skyline next :P

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Postby sleeper » Sun Mar 13, 2011 12:32 pm

RA`s may be a different kettle of fish as they use the same floorpan as all the lancers so need much less unique tooling than an EVO.
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Postby Blakey » Sun Mar 13, 2011 1:30 pm

Shifta wrote:that's crap... sure, they're going to make more money off it. but if they remove their performance line (including the ralliart if it happens), they're also removing an entire group of marketing through performance cars on movies/games etc...
young kids wont want to be playing the future gran turismo's in hybrids and battery cars... so goodbye advertisement for mitsubishi to still be making "cool cars"


clearly know nothing of electric cars,

http://www.teslamotors.com/australia

and there are allot more out there.
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Postby Kav91 » Sun Mar 13, 2011 4:18 pm

say if you were to buy an evo in a year or 2, would it be cheaper since their not producing anymore or the opposite?

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Postby Shifta » Sun Mar 13, 2011 5:56 pm

Blakey wrote:clearly know nothing of electric cars,

http://www.teslamotors.com/australia

and there are allot more out there.


yes, i know about the tesla. but i'm talking about mitsubishi's main performance line. 4 cylinder turbocharged cars that are still of the influence of rally.
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