So your sitting at MMNA headquaters in the boardroom...
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Originally Posted by WoRkZ
Well, it's not like the RA is an OZ with a bigger engine... but anyway
They just announced a co-CEO for MMNA today(yesterday). His name is Hiroshi Harunari. Maybe this means a new commitment to the American market to have a Japanese co-leader with a direct link to the motherland. More cool stuff should follow I think.
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Originally Posted by WoRkZ
-The new lancer model (2008 model year, available in the fall of 2007) will get the new 2.4l engine as a base engine (would put out in excess of 150HP). The RalliArt should remain, but be placed closer to the middle ground, between the base model and the EVO X. The engine will be a mildly-turbocharged [my personnal guess is on 7psi] version of the new 2.4l engine and should put out in excess of 200HP. The styling differences between the base Lancer and the RA should be maintained, as well as the difference in driving dynamics... again, to place the RA smack down in the middle between the two extremes in the Lancer lineup.-
While the Evo is a VERY reasonably priced car for the performance you get (starting at 29k) can Mitsu really ignore the youth market calling for cheap speed? You've got SRT-4 (RIP) Cobalt SS Supercharged, WRX, a supercharger available for the Scion TC... wake up Mitsu! The time is right for a turbo Lancer... and you have the perfect model already! Hell, then you could make a turbo Outlander as well!
The only shame is, since it's a new motor, we can't take advantage of it on our cars.
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1)I think it should be at least 190 hp
2)Stick with FWD, if you really need AWD the buy an evo
3)Keep it NA to keep the price down, you dont need a turbo to achieve 190 hp
4)The evo can compete with the WRX STI, its out of the RA's league
5)Definitely keep the MIVEC, keep the good technology
6)Same spoiler, some nice 17"s would be cool but not necessary. SMALLER steering wheel, similar to evo's.
7)Seats with more support, smaller steering wheel with leather, NO NAVI SYSTEM (this is suppose to be a sporty car, use mapquest ) Leather would be nice, but something like that would jerk the price up, if you REALLY need leather get an evo. Just some sporty looking fabric. Some suede-like material. BRIGHTER interior lights. Beef up the suspension a bit for a lower look. 6-disc changer should stay an option
8) We dotn wanna make it more than 22 grand or so fully loaded, still need it affordable. Thats why we dont need a turbo, or leather, and navi system.
(I am thinking from a developer's POV)
2)Stick with FWD, if you really need AWD the buy an evo
3)Keep it NA to keep the price down, you dont need a turbo to achieve 190 hp
4)The evo can compete with the WRX STI, its out of the RA's league
5)Definitely keep the MIVEC, keep the good technology
6)Same spoiler, some nice 17"s would be cool but not necessary. SMALLER steering wheel, similar to evo's.
7)Seats with more support, smaller steering wheel with leather, NO NAVI SYSTEM (this is suppose to be a sporty car, use mapquest ) Leather would be nice, but something like that would jerk the price up, if you REALLY need leather get an evo. Just some sporty looking fabric. Some suede-like material. BRIGHTER interior lights. Beef up the suspension a bit for a lower look. 6-disc changer should stay an option
8) We dotn wanna make it more than 22 grand or so fully loaded, still need it affordable. Thats why we dont need a turbo, or leather, and navi system.
(I am thinking from a developer's POV)
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Originally Posted by BLKRalliArt04
1)I think it should be at least 190 hp
2)Stick with FWD, if you really need AWD the buy an evo
3)Keep it NA to keep the price down, you dont need a turbo to achieve 190 hp
4)The evo can compete with the WRX STI, its out of the RA's league
5)Definitely keep the MIVEC, keep the good technology
6)Same spoiler, some nice 17"s would be cool but not necessary. SMALLER steering wheel, similar to evo's.
7)Seats with more support, smaller steering wheel with leather, NO NAVI SYSTEM (this is suppose to be a sporty car, use mapquest ) Leather would be nice, but something like that would jerk the price up, if you REALLY need leather get an evo. Just some sporty looking fabric. Some suede-like material. BRIGHTER interior lights. Beef up the suspension a bit for a lower look. 6-disc changer should stay an option
8) We dotn wanna make it more than 22 grand or so fully loaded, still need it affordable. Thats why we dont need a turbo, or leather, and navi system.
(I am thinking from a developer's POV)
2)Stick with FWD, if you really need AWD the buy an evo
3)Keep it NA to keep the price down, you dont need a turbo to achieve 190 hp
4)The evo can compete with the WRX STI, its out of the RA's league
5)Definitely keep the MIVEC, keep the good technology
6)Same spoiler, some nice 17"s would be cool but not necessary. SMALLER steering wheel, similar to evo's.
7)Seats with more support, smaller steering wheel with leather, NO NAVI SYSTEM (this is suppose to be a sporty car, use mapquest ) Leather would be nice, but something like that would jerk the price up, if you REALLY need leather get an evo. Just some sporty looking fabric. Some suede-like material. BRIGHTER interior lights. Beef up the suspension a bit for a lower look. 6-disc changer should stay an option
8) We dotn wanna make it more than 22 grand or so fully loaded, still need it affordable. Thats why we dont need a turbo, or leather, and navi system.
(I am thinking from a developer's POV)
On everything else I agree.
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Originally Posted by Ralliartist
SRT-4 did it,
The interior was pure crap. The suspension sucked just as bad. Alls you got was a fast car. The base WRX is in a league of its own sort of. Yeah 190 should be upped a bit to 200-210 perhaps. Now we need to compete with the new SI. If we upped the power to 200, we would certainly have the torque upped to around 195. Man then the RA would kick so much ***.
edit: The WRX does cost about 4 grand more, but you need to realize that we need to keep the price absolutely no more than 22, and if we added a turbo and AWD, it would jack the price to well over 24-25, and we need a car that is affordable.
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(on the topic of SRT-4 costing 22k)
The SRT-4 wasn't all that bad, sold well, and really only got killed because of the death of the Neon line in general. As far as the WRX thing goes, I don't think we need teh AWD (as you said, if you need AWD, get an Evo) but if we got a mivec engine with a turbo and the previously mentioned suspension upgrades (not forgetting better stock tires) we'd make any SI owner weep.
Originally Posted by BLKRalliArt04
Yeah, see how long that car lasted
The interior was pure crap. The suspension sucked just as bad. Alls you got was a fast car. The base WRX is in a league of its own sort of. Yeah 190 should be upped a bit to 200-210 perhaps. Now we need to compete with the new SI. If we upped the power to 200, we would certainly have the torque upped to around 195. Man then the RA would kick so much ***.
edit: The WRX does cost about 4 grand more, but you need to realize that we need to keep the price absolutely no more than 22, and if we added a turbo and AWD, it would jack the price to well over 24-25, and we need a car that is affordable.
The interior was pure crap. The suspension sucked just as bad. Alls you got was a fast car. The base WRX is in a league of its own sort of. Yeah 190 should be upped a bit to 200-210 perhaps. Now we need to compete with the new SI. If we upped the power to 200, we would certainly have the torque upped to around 195. Man then the RA would kick so much ***.
edit: The WRX does cost about 4 grand more, but you need to realize that we need to keep the price absolutely no more than 22, and if we added a turbo and AWD, it would jack the price to well over 24-25, and we need a car that is affordable.
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Maybe we could get a turbo kit, but the AWD is certainly out of the question, we cant have both or the price would certainly go over what it should be. I think the main car we need to compete with is the SI. Maybe a medium between the base WRX and the SI. It also doesnt need to be all about power. But practicality as well.
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Okay, AWD might make the price go up considerably but for me, like most of the ralliart owners, I didn't/couldn't get an evo because my insurance would have been so ridiculously high that I couldn't afford both the car and the insurance...
Adding a turbo to the RA would probibly make the insurance somewhat similar to the EVO. Some people also didn't buy a ralliart because it wasn't awd like a legacy or WRX. I'm all for making the RA have all these options but for the price, make it higher and add turbo and you might as well buy an evo rs.
Practically, they probibly couldn't change much except the interior which needs a huge overhaul, some minor styling for the exterior, and maybe an LSD without effecting the price that much.
Adding a turbo to the RA would probibly make the insurance somewhat similar to the EVO. Some people also didn't buy a ralliart because it wasn't awd like a legacy or WRX. I'm all for making the RA have all these options but for the price, make it higher and add turbo and you might as well buy an evo rs.
Practically, they probibly couldn't change much except the interior which needs a huge overhaul, some minor styling for the exterior, and maybe an LSD without effecting the price that much.
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Right. I don't think the answer is to turn the RA into a WRX fighter. Either a DOHC head and high revs so it can be a Si/RSX style car, or turbo to go up against the Cobalt SS/SRT-4. I don't see Mitsu adding AWD to any other cars any time soon.
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Everything costs money but to make it a better performance FWD in its catagory....
LSD and 20 more ponies. Clean up th e look of it. I know the guys at MMNA who will be reading this. Don't goof this opportunity for imput up.
ROAD/RACE
LSD and 20 more ponies. Clean up th e look of it. I know the guys at MMNA who will be reading this. Don't goof this opportunity for imput up.
ROAD/RACE
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Oh yeah i forgot about the LSD. Thats DEFINITELY a must-have. Perhaps if we cant get 17"s, then 16"s with some GOOD tires would definitely work. Actually that would probably work out better, so they can reserve the 17 inchers for evos.
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Ehh, they're putting 18's on Eclipses. Should be no problem for the RA to have 17in Enkeis of a different style from the Evos. They keep hinting at bringing over a small car too, like a coupe or hatch, similar but not necessarily the Colt. Would everyone rather stick with the 4 door Lancer? Or would a RA style cheaper 3-door car rob too many Eclipse GS sales?