I jus bought the new DSport Mag and they had an article '2010 Best FWD, RWD, and AWD Car of the Year'. For the AWD cars they had; GTR, X MR, X GSR, RA, WRX STi, and WRX. It was held at Willow Springs track. From what i saw in the pic for the RA it had a sunroof and dark color wheels. But that is all they showed. They also said the GSR had 2 piece rotors, i'm not sure if that was a typo or not but it looks like the X get a nice upgrade. They didnt say much about updates Mitsu has done except for the color screen, ugraded RF system and the interior console. I apologize if this was posted already.

 

Motortrend had pictures of the 10' Sportback on their site if you search. It shows a lot of the changes in the interior.

 

They also listed the Ralliart sedan as having 6.9 cubic feet of cargo space, which is the Evo X's cargo space. The Ralliart has around 10. And even though they did point it out, their tester dyno'd at 191hp/155.7tq, which is incredibly low, meaning there was something wrong with their tester. I love DSport, but man, I was disappointed in reading this.

 

What is wrong with their tester? 237HP minus about 18% gives 191HP. Sounds to be spot on to me. What type of power were you expecting?

 

I'm talking about the torque rating.

 

Yea I too was dissappointed in the article. I remember when they first had the RA they praised it so I kno they difinately got a dud this time.

The HP is fine, its the torque that is the problem. 155 ????????

 

yeah, thier torque is way off.

 

I too have this mag

they said something seemed wrong with their ralliart; they ran a 16+ sec 1/4 mile and 7.7 sec 0-60, plus they had those custom wheels with wide rubber... and 155 pound-feet of tq is WAAAAAAY off seeing as how they're estimating crank numbers; stock torque on a dyno is around 220-230 lb-ftq or w/e (always forget how to abbreviate that)

but there's also interesting information on the 2010 Evo X MR; I posted the following at the Evo X Forum Section:

https://www.evolutionm.net/forums/ev...tion-x-20.html

DSport dynoed the X MR for 2010 at 320+ crank hp; meaning the car is way underrated from factory;

oh and maybe bondoc forgot to mention, the '09 WRX is also underrated... it's doing 280 crank horsepowers... LOL... please RA owners do not try one when you see them

 

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DSport dynoed the X MR for 2010 at 320+ crank hp; meaning the car is way underrated from factory;

oh and maybe bondoc forgot to mention, the '09 WRX is also underrated... it's doing 280 crank horsepowers... LOL... please RA owners do not try one when you see them [/QUOTE]

Well just out of curiosity did they ever do an engine dyno run on an RA, we could also be slightly underrated.....unless their equipment they tested on is FUBAR

 

Yah that 1/4 mile is wayyy off..I was running 14.8's stock lol..without even launching it.
but that's good tho, that magazine puts us MORE under the radar
keep it coming baby...


Just tune, and your good.
Viola..280-290 to the crank.

 

chances are they where sitting there and revving the engine causing it to go limp i.e. the 0-60 time a 7.7 but like u said IdriveRA this puts us under the radar,and I like that. We know the true power of our cars and what can happen with a couple of bolt-on mods and a tune ams is running high 12s to low 13s and that beats a stock evo and sti, also a couple of V-8's like the challenger,mustang,and camaro. Guys with V-8's always disrespect 4-bangers until they are in our rear-view making sure our brake lights work.

 

lol cocky... I like that
but it's true though... specially mustangs, they hate us Japanese-racer-wannabes;

Also in DSPort's DVD of that same issue, the guy that's testing the cars says something like: "I love this car, until I take it to the drag strip... there's just no way to launch this car "

But let me tell you, every single car he tested had AWFUL times (except for driving in a wet track)... which led me to believe he ultimately sucks

 

about the mustangs thats so true especially with guys who drive GT's

Where do they find these so called experts to test these cars.

 

I always believed the X was underated and also the 09 WRX. But the wet track killed the times on those cars even the GTR 1/4 was higher than usual. One thing they said about the STi and WRX that made me SMFH was "Factory pistons/rings do not tolerate any detonation."

 

This is tru. I can hear all the Honda guys now "Slow Lancer, I can't wait to get my 15 sec 139 lb-ft Si on one of those. VTEC 4ever."