Its the end of 2 litter turbocharged 4WD saloons. Even in WRC it is using turbocharged 1.6 litter superminis and that should set the trend for smaller performance cars.

The only next possible thing is a hybrid performance like Porsche's own 918 Spyder but it will take years before other manufacturers adopt it.

RIP evo, u will be missed.

The Lancer and Lancer Evolution are 2 separate platforms. They are stopping the Lancer Evolution, not the Lancer.

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Added on March 3, 2011, 11:00 amThat's because of the change in rules. Before year 2000 you have to produce the cars for sale before you can put it into WRC. Hence you have the Lancer Evolution and the Subaru Impreza STis. They have to make it and sell it before homologation for WRC can take place. Nobody else dared to challenge Mitsu and Subaru because they can't put a turbo in a small car and expect to sell it at that time.

After year 2000, you can just make 10 prototypes and enter WRC. Hence you get cars like Peugeot 206 turbo and Citroen Xsara/C4 turbo which you do not see on the road. Anyway, since the change of rules, there has only been 3 manufacturers that took the WRC title, Peugeot, Subaru and Citroen.

This post has been edited by sleepwalker: Mar 3 2011, 11:01 AM

BLEH....

ill believe it when i see it....

a long time ago they said the EVO 9 was gonna be the last EVO......and yet we still have an EVO 10...

again...

BLEH....

Taking part on motor sports usually are burning money.... How many people will buy a rm300k car?

dont worry..there will be next gen inspira r3 lolol

dun wry....
http://www.proton.com/Models/Our-Model-Lin...ncept-Cars.aspx
Jebat is coming up.....so called 'proton inspira evo'....

nice man, for real?

RIP evo...i vow 2 buy evo 6.5 after hearing this bad news hahaha

did anyone remember last time mitsubishi said evo 9 is the last evo

then come evo x

Yeah it's totally different platform, but I was enligthen by my relative at P2, somehow Inspira was abeit smaller than Lancer GT, and the dimension of Inspira is exactly as Lancer Evo..so I also do think P1 got best deals on Evo 10 platform.. ....just my 2 cents..

I don't recall the news about Evo 9 being the last, but I remembered Evo 9 was the last one to run on 4G63 engine.

Besides, it was used to be their routine to produce new chassis & major mechanical revamp for every 3 Evos with upgrades along the way for each Evo until the next revamp. (ie Evo 1 -3, Evo 4 - 6, & Evo 7 - 9)

And keep it lock up as thieves always target limited edition for parts.

haha yeah i will...been hearing a lot of stolen evos lately in the city dangit

Your relative at P2 might need to check the facts again. AFAIK, both the Lancer GT and Inspira has the same wheelbase, 2635mm whereas the Lancer EVO has a slightly smaller 2625mm wheelbase. I don't know how your relative says that the Inspira is smaller than the Lancer GT.

Anyway, size does not make the platform. It's what they do to the basic platform that makes it an Evolution. Additional reveting and spot-welds are usually found on EVO chassis that does not exist in the basic Lancer chassis. In order to get this done, you'd need a separate assembly platform to assemble the chassis. Of course you can do it Proton style like what they did the R3 by rolling out the standard GTi chassis to the back of the assembly plant and spot-weld it by hand. Don't think the Japs would do that to their EVOs.

agreed. and ya the Version 8 impreza was a championship winning car too with Solberg. whats your take on the WRX era? in my mind they've lost it too with the Version 9 being the last of the 'raw' ones

and subaru will reign supreme?FFFFF....

Will Honda & Toyota enter WRC.
I'll be surprised if Hyundai/Kia enter WRC. So far only Ford challenge them.

(Is Scooby still in WRC)

Toyota and Honda already burn once on F1, doubt they will burn money on this.....
By putting more efforts on going green will make more profit....

Hopefully Forte Koup US/Euro market, can put it in WRC...the Koup Concept R...damn nice!!!

Well, going for a better world..... But no matter how we do, a war in Middle East are good enough to destroy the sick earth more....