Category: Affordable Sports 
Price Range: £29,499 to £49,999
Performance, balanced handling, sharp looks, fine gearchange.
Punishing ride, fuel consumption, running costs.
More at home now on the road than rally stage, the Evolution X has finally grown up.
Mitsubishi has a reputation of building some of the most reliable cars in the business, but its Lancer Evolution models have always been an unknown quantity due to the relatively few numbers sold.
Both the engine and automated manual gearbox are all-new so that increases that uncertainty, but both should benefit from durability tests carried out on previous Evos both on and off the track.
Like the old car though, reliability depends on how hard you drive and whether or not the car has been modified by an aftermarket tuner.
Perceived quality levels have taken a huge step forward over the old model, but the Lancer still lags behind premium rivals. The horrible plastic interior door panels tell you there's still plenty of work to do on quality, but it does appear to be pretty robust.
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wrote on 02 10 2008