Western_man

+1

SpeedI2acerX

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but gaybalt wont get you pu$$y, evo does. i cant imagine telling my friends i drive a colbalt and expect them not to laugh. you can make a pinto fast if you want to but do i want to drive it? hellzzz no!

ODUB

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yeah, but if you read the article and the notes about the EVO IX's drive, those guys didn't know what the hell they were doing. the SC'ed cobalt SS that ran with them that year had higher entry AND exit speeds than both the EVO IX MR, and the 350Z track on more than one corner. that tells me they were driving the cars wrong. wouldn't surprise me if the X MR had more speed in it than they could get out of it as well.

toro10

ha ha, these posts about the cobalt ss remind of what BMW owners would say if an M3 lost to an EVO (wont get you laid, cheap interior, driven by ricers, etc...). Hopefully EVO owners have not fallen to the level of "but our interior is more ergonomic" or something similar.

E. Haskell

Lets be honest here - an EVO which the average person sees as a Lancer isn't exactly pulling in super models.

mike100

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From my experience so far, the evo doesn't get chicks excited...Anything that cost about $50k does the trick though.

School aged kids look at it a lot though. I even had a motorcycle cop motion to me to slow down a bit (I guess he didn't want to take the time to write up a cite)- The evo x is low key.

E. Haskell

The frickin' $22k Cobalt SS trounced the following vehicles:

- EVO MR
- STI
- ISF
- 135i
- S2000 CR
- Elise SC
- G37 Sport
- Challenger SRT8
- S5
- R32
- Mugen Si

AND IT GETS 30 MPG!!!

Talk about an awesome daily driver.

X owners better hope GM doesn't release any stage kits...if so, these things will be pushing 300hp for $700 WITH a factory warranty.

love9sick

So much faith in Car and Driver? I wish I could have the same.

Boston_eagle

Depends. Watch this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gn0UkrPvPmc
-"The MR rides more comfortable than the GSR, yet manages SUPERIOR lap times."

Direct quote from video review of the MR, GSR, and STI, with the MR having the fastest lap time. So it depends more on the track course layout.


As many have said already, most of us would still prefer a EVO X over a cobalt. It's like the old SRT-4 vs. WRX debate:

"The SRT-4 is faster!"
"Well, throw in any turns, and it's not, and b) I don't want to drive a neon."

They can say "you drive a lancer" , but the MR offers so much more (Recaros, auto climate control, BBS, AWD, and Nav option.)

Chevy did give it some respect, following Mitsubishi and Subaru's early philosophy:
turbo it, give it brembos, and mark up the price of our cobalts by thousands!

To each their own.

E. Haskell

People always do this. When the car they like loses - blame the magazine.

GSXR

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Mitsubishi really needs to up the Evo's hp so it'll do well in these tests. I'd like to see a FQ360 or 400 version for the US that cost a couple thousand more! The handling is already good enough, it just needs a bit of hp.

love9sick

I don't have to use any excuse. I never liked C&D since day one. Way before this post or any other. Sorry, always found their reviews underwhelming and never precise or even accurate most of the time.

E. Haskell

BTW - it's great that others prefer the X, but it's also great that people can get similar performance for $22k. Not everyone can or wants to spend $35k on a car. Figure in interest/tax/extra gas and the X probably has a 5 year cost of ownership that is over $20,000 more!!

IMO, fast, cheap and economical cars are fun.

PaRanHaNeul

lol! true that!

love9sick

Tax and interest? whaaat? every car has that. Not to mention everyone has to put gas in and that is relative to how much you drive. Maybe just tires and the fully synthetic oil, that is about it really. EVO (all of them) are cheap and economical for what you get. Not to mention speed is cheap on the EVO, special with the size of the after market business devoted to it. Notice I have never even said anything about the Cobalt thus far. I don't care how fast it really is, what the problem is that once some car comes along that is quick or close to performance and yet costs less people try to bring the other car down for some reason. Anyone ever thought of the idea that 4x4 is more expensive for a manufacturer to put in a car as it is. Second, the price gap isn't really that big considering we have seen 335i to the X comparisons and they are 10k different. Third of all the EVO is a rally car, winter is only a few months away now where I live...and it bites here.