Personally I feel like this isn't such a great loss, which is odd. I love the EVO, always have. But the earlier iterations IV to VIII were the best IMHO, and were truly head and shoulders above everything else out there.
Now they are just a very expensive four door saloon with similar power to a few others in the same price range. I think the design of the car (and the NA price) has gone the wrong way, this shouldn't be a premium product, it should be a fast family car, ridiculously fast. $53K plus tax is stupid.
With Mitsubishi absent from WRC, killing it and starting afresh might be a wise move, before they sully the name any further. You never know, in a few years they may have a great hybrid WRC car with small electric motors on each wheel, with enough instant torque to get a 0-60 in 4 seconds again!
I'd love an Evo V or VI TM Edition. In the UK they sell for very little.
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