A Cult Education: 2015 Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution MR - Automobile
I wouldn’t want to be in a cult—who wants to teleport off to planet Amazia with 37 bald-headed Crocs wearers, anyway. —so why would I want to be in a cult car. Yet there I was, zinging through the gears of a 2015 Mitsubishi Evo MR, a turbocharged sports sedan that couldn’t scream “cult car” any louder if Eraserhead were driving it. And I got to thinking: Evo devotees love their rabid, all-wheel-drive... ” Turning to the Webster’s dictionary that I’m pretending to have, I note that certain uses of the word “cult” refer roughly to “something most people don’t like at all but a few people like a whole lot. Yet a few of you out there simply catch sight of one and immediately start writing really sappy poems about it. (It amazes me that Kenny G isn’t known as a “cult saxophonist. ”) Though Mitsubishi introduced the car—officially, the Lancer Evolution—in Japan in 1992, it wasn’t until the car’s eighth generation in 2003 when the Evo arrived on our shores. ” “Nyah nah nah nah nah. On the faces of early Evo VIII buyers one could observe an unmistakable look of bliss. The VIII introduced the basic blueprint that continues with today’s Evo X: feisty turbo four-cylinder engine, computer-regulated all-wheel-drive system, grip-biased suspension, assorted hardware and cosmetic bits seemingly plucked from a race car. The VIII wasn’t comfortable, wasn’t beautiful, and wasn’t afraid to challenge sports cars 10 times its price. Source: www.automobilemag.com
