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Originally Posted by MikeW-RRE
From a tuning and modding standpoint, the car is more EVO X.
From a marketing standpoint, Mitsu needs to claim it more as a gussied up Prancer. With a couple of keyboard clicks on the assembly line, they could have made the EVO X look stupid expensive compared to a RalliArt. Take out the SST for a regular transmission and make the turbo a little bigger (yet still low boost) and you have a $23k baby EVO. But it makes U-turns and has a trunk.
Part for part it has more parts in common with the Prancer, true. But the one important part is the EVO turbo motor. Add in that is has AWD and the ability to trade up to EVO X hand me downs and we here on the various RalliArt forums think of it more as Baby EVO X.
It is all up to your perspective whether Baby EVO or Rowdy Prancer.
Mike W
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Rowdy Prancer, unfortunately. They shoulda given us the bottom end of the Evo. The Ralliart is a winner all day in Stock class Solo, but as soon as you throw a part on it, it's in the Evo class, and in the same hands would lose to the Evo. ugh...
All in all, it's a corner they were losing on with Subie, but Mitsu doesn't want to spend the cash on local dealers so it's a hit out of the box to go Mitsu.