12 of 122011 Mitsubishi Lancer Sportback GTS - AutoWeek
With a manual, this car is quite an entertaining ride. The Sportback body doesn't bother me. It actually looked pretty good last night in the parking lot when it was clean before heading out into the remnants of the snowstorm. The back seats were down, so I think that added to the road and wind noise, but you could clearly hear the engine through the firewall. The car took a long time to heat up and just got warm on my 20-minute drive home. The front-wheel drive was great for the ride, but that CVT just keeps screwing stuff up. When you gas it hard, the revs skyrocket and the car goes, but if you hit a slippery spot, the power just dies. You can turn the traction control off but that just seems to confuse the car. ASSISTANT ART DIRECTOR CHERYL L. BLAHNIK: I'm pretty sure Mitsubishi is trying to sell consumers on the notion of this being a "sporty" hatchback with the Sportback name and all, but visually, it just screams "practical" to me. As I approached the... If the designers curved the back end a little more, I think it would add a little more spunk to the exterior and make it look closer to "sporty" than it does now. If you want a sporty hatchback in both looks and performance,. Source: autoweek.com
