Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution X test drive since 2008 sedan
Another branch
The light saw a new, tenth generation of the famous sports model Mitsubishi. Vadim Nikishev met with the next turn of evolution. On the machine
In the glove box you will find a letter for the local police, but keep in mind: it will not help if you are caught with a mark of 250 km/h on radar, people from Mitsubishi Motors warn. Hmm, keeping in the framework of decency driving Evo is not easy, but let's try
There is also a road book in which your route is spelled out today. If you get lost, feel free to rely on the standard navigation system, it will lead to the end point of the trip.
Here is navigation, and even with voice accompaniment? However, of course, adopted in the Easy Right, Fifty Meters Jump from it, of course, you will not hear. But it will help to navigate the difficult interchanges of Spanish roads.
Everything is familiar in the cabin, but not according to the pre-spartan interiors of evolution, but according to the serial Lancer. The difference is only in the touch screen, which controls music and navigation, and in the leather chairs of the rosaro with a traditional minimum of adjustments.
The surprises continue. The box lever moves back and forth along the slot with indicators Parking, drive, neutral sailed: heir to rally car with a machine gun!
In fact, this is a pre -sequential gearbox with two clutches. It includes two gears simultaneously. One toothed gear is transmitted by a stream of power, and the second pair of gears rotates idol. When transmitting gears, the thrust disappears only at the time of opening one clutch and the inclusion of another theoretically everything happens faster than that of the mechanics manually controlled. However, in normal mode, for a comfortable and economical driving, it is unlikely that anyone will want to intensively accelerate. And in sports conditions, the machine changes the steps, maintaining engine speed in an effective range. Normal
Suppose you did not go to EVO of previous generations, but you are probably familiar with them for numerous publications (for example, ZR, 2006, No. 12). Now imagine what to suffer in a sports car in traffic jams. A new generation with TS-SST transmission allows you to roll in normal mode, as if on an ordinary Lanser with an automaton. Electronics quickly, but without fuss, sorting through the transmission, which is noticeable only by the fluctuations of the tachometer arrow. There are only eighty on the speedometer, and the number 6 is already watching the indicator from the indicator!
What is annoying is the timbre of the exhaust system. Since you can move slowly on Evo, it’s good to think about acoustics: at a speed of about 4000, the salon fills the obsessive rumble, which tires great. The way out of the position in changing the pace of movement to sports, for which the corresponding mood and transmission mode are needed. They said he is good on mountain serpentines? We check on the steep lifts of the Sierra Nevada.
SPORT Now I recognize my brother Kolya! The reactions to the accelerator have aggravated, the automation holds the transmission before cutting off, and when braking, it helpfully smoothes the reduced one. A certain similarity appeared with the gambling Evolution VIII and IX. Well, let's add, the benefit of the Vilyuschny area is visible half a kilometer forward.
While the road is free, I have time to get a move, and, despite the intensive slowdown, the speed remains high by the closed turn. But now you have to stay within the framework of your strip! The stabilization system intervenes in the matter (another farewell wave of the old EVO concept). But how she works! Why strangle the engine, crunch with the brakes, if the pair is a full -wheel drive system with an active rear differential? With constant traction, the car does not sour due to restless electronics, he obediently argues inside the turn.
The day before, we were shown a photo of a car crippled by European journalists, emphasizing that as a result of the accident, they got off with a slight fright. How reckless you need to be to lose control of the new EVO! It is simply created for those who have already outgrown the level of an ordinary driver, but has not yet earned a sports category.
Superport! For dessert, we will try the most combat box of the box. To do this, you need to stop and hold a button for four seconds next to the machine gun selector. At the same time, the word of people from Mitsubishi was already distorted: no, they say, not an automatic, but SST! I explain that we have an automatic box a collective term that does not specify the design of the transmission.
Here you try the Supersport mode, then we’ll talk! The Japanese continue to worry. Funny
This was the last thing I thought before the starting jerk. Further it was not to laugh. The aggravated gas reactions, as if an electronic throttle has become part of your nervous system, shock switching, as if in a racing sequenca, here it is, the spirit of a real Evo! Continues to live, although waking up requires as many as 4 seconds. And in the city it is better not to bother him, enjoying what previous generations of this sports car could not give a climate control, a standard audio system with a subwoofer and a normal machine for a machine gun, a branded transmission SST. _x0008_
Without a cross Since 1992, evolution has experienced 9 reincarnations, each of which became more technically more perfect and was less and less resembled a civilian Lancer. And in 2005, the Light saw Concept-X at the Tokyo Motor show, which was immediately spoke about the Evo heir. And they did not guess! The first appeared serial Lancer, very similar to the concept. The spectacular sedan successfully made his debut on the world market, and then a hot version was created on its base, that is, the current evolution.
So the new EVO should not be considered as the development of the previous branch, but as a seriously charged serial model.
The analogy of hot versions of BMW-M3 or Audi-S4, representatives of Mitsubishi said.
This is the number! But what about the premium luxury that conquers in German cars and which is not in the budget salon of Lancer?
The Japanese have a different understanding of quality, the main thing, do not feel plastic, but reliably ride! Answer. We do not say that evolution has become a competitor to BMW and Audi. While they are a guideline for us. In any case, we do not want the new car to contrast her former rival to Subaru-Imrez.
Tink the lower jaw. Why then is the current principle of building a lineup so similar to the Subaru approach? Both firms have models with low-power engines, have heated (WRX has Subaru and 240-horsepower Ralliar in Mitsubishi) and top sti and EVO. However, the question of parallels remains open.
Plans for the European market are 3000 cars a year, of which 85% are equipped with SST transmission. This is approximately 6% of all lanchers.
And one more thing: the model has lost a digital index. Now it is just evolution, without X. So it will be in all markets except Japan and Great Britain. And perhaps Russia, where it will appear by the end of summer at a price of 1470 thousand to 1700 thousand rubles.
Vadim Nikishev
Source: The magazine "Driving"
