Test drive Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution VII 2000 - 2003 sedan

Obeying the theory of selection

Athlete from Mitsubishi
I don’t know how you, but I have never been obsessed with biology. But whenever it comes to the cars of the sports line of Mitsubishi Lancer, called Evolution (Evolution), Jean -Batist Lamarck, the father of the first evolutionary concept of wildlife, comes to mind. I understand that the scientist-scientist has nothing to do with Mitsubishi, nor to cars at all, but I can’t do anything with myself.
The most interesting thing is that, sitting behind the wheel of the last generation of sports Lancers, I found myself in the power of the Lamarck theory, according to which the species constantly change under the influence of the external environment. The body began to clearly feel the effect of this car: the hands themselves lay on the steering wheel to a position without a quarter three, without snaping the four-point belt, it was somehow embarrassed to move, and the sound of the engine earned an insurmountable desire to break from the place. My evolution in the direction of sports has begun!
 
The influence of external factors
If you want, you don’t want to, but at one glance at this machine created on the basis of the Lancer Sedia Japanese market, you are charged with sports energy and excitement. The demon -guide is instructed in you - it bothers to break out of the stream, go through a turn or bypass the six hundredth. Moreover, at our disposal was not just a basic version, but a tuning, which has passed at the company Sports Mobile, the first stage of improvements called white. As a result, Evolyushn acquired a cermet clutch, modified intake and release systems, an additional fuel tank and control of the cooling of the turbine.
Russian tuningists pay much less attention to external effects. An impressive spoiler on the lid of the trunk at Evo VII in the base. And this is not an imitation of sports, but a functional part - so that the car is pressed to the ground at high speeds.
Additional ventilation grilles on the hood - like a dragon nostril. When rain drops fall on a heated motor, steam breaks out of them. For a complete resemblance to the monster, only languages \u200b\u200bof flame are missing ... But here it would be an abnormal situation. A fairy -tale snake with a binary mouth eagerly enough air, which is so necessary to cool the engine.
 
ONTOGENESIS*
Each detail of the cabin is permeated with sports, although it itself is slightly different from the ordinary Lancer. No arcs and security frames are for real racer, for competitions. Whereas Lancer Evo VII is a sports model: it allows you to drive quickly, very quickly, but not to lose the consumer qualities of a car, that is, to carry a cargo in the trunk, and in the cabin - three to four passengers, in addition to the driver.
In standard configuration, there are sporting seats of the recar with embossed lateral support. Because of her, the landing and landing of the driver and his neighbor are somewhat complicated: you have to cross through the side ledge of the pillow. And you can only sit directly: such seats do not allow any turns and semi -heaps. But even on the coolest turn, you will not be thrown out of the river cup. A skin -covered steering wheel Momo combines not only style and sports: a pillow of safety is also hidden in his hub. The steering wheel has only vertical adjustment. He is moved to the driver in a different way: it is believed that this contributes to more accurate rolling.
An unusual device - a turbo -Timer eliminates the owner of the need to turn the engine at idle for some time after stopping to prevent overheating of the details of the turbocharger. On our evoluish, the motor worked half a minute after turning off the ignition. A turbo-Timer can perform a number of functions: a speedometer, showing medium and instant speeds, tachometer and chronometer-to measure the time of the classical distance of street racing (402 meters or 1/4 miles).
But most of all I liked the box lever - an aluminum polished ball covered with translucent blue varnish. This is a tuning element of the English company raliart. At the first touch, I was struck by a piercing cold emanating from him. As the salon heated and getting used to the car, he will get warmer, and then, in the heat of the test races, he will even heat up - he will even seem to be burning hot.
 
Elements of self -testing
To move on Evo VII, we must try: cermet clutch does not forgive the slightest mistakes. Catching the moment of touching, which is hidden literally in millimeters of the pedal, you need to be extremely concentrated, subtly capturing the reaction of the car. This is a kind of admission to management of a sports projectile: I managed to move - go! But then, when setting speed or braking with switching to lower gears, such a sharp clutch becomes concise and understandable. You can not squeeze the pedal completely: barely touching it with your foot, instantly stick the desired gear.
The supersensitive steering wheel also will not tolerate liberties: if you go straight - dead and do not move. Perhaps I never felt the connection of the wheels with the surface of the road so sharply. All irregularities were concentrated in the fingers of the hands squeezing the steering wheel. On the asphalt ruts rolled over the summer, it was necessary to catch a car, striving to get off the ridge. A hard suspension only strengthened the connection with the road, did not miss a single tubercle and a joint of the canvas, saying this with shocks in the back. In a word, Evolyushn will not allow to relax for a minute.
 
The joy of sports victories
Then why such a troubled car? For everyday life - of course, is not needed. But for the life of sports or, more precisely, the near sports is required just this. You begin to understand this after passing the first turns at the test training ground.
Evo enters his element. The suspension ceases to seem tough. The car flies into a turn and as if teasing: they say, I can even quickly. You add speed, and he raises the bar again. Short clear moves of the blue ball, acceleration, and again you feel that Lancer has not exhausted his capabilities. If we conditionally accept the entire set of car qualities for 100%, then in evoluish 80% of the sports car and only 20% of the usual passenger car.
But what about electronics - ABS (anti -lock system), ASD (Active Center Differential - Active Central Differential)? Here they all serve sports. According to the designers, the new electronic traffic controller under the same conditions allows you to reduce the radius of rotation compared to the previous version. In addition, on the bends, ASD distributes the traction effort, transmitting the maximum torque to the rear external wheel - arguing the car.
Agree, it is not easy to find snow, gravel, and dry asphalt in order to evaluate the behavior of the machine in different operating modes of the active differential. I had to be content with asphalt, trying different positions of the selector. The general opinion is as follows: in the SNOW (snow) mode, the system allows you to more actively argue with the car with traction, making it more swivel, but in Tarmas (concrete) its intervention is less obvious. Gravel option (gravel) - intermediate.
Yes, Lancer Evolyushn VII is not at all simple. He is configured to win. Only a purposeful person can afford such a car (slightly cheaper than 50 thousand dollars), and Evo VII himself will engage in the sports evolution of the owner (according to the lamark). After all, the environment of his habitat is sports. But only the selection will be not entirely natural.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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A source: The magazine "Driving"