2006 MITSUBISHI LANCER EVOLUTION MR SE

PROOF THAT fast cars can actually save lives, the Evo recently rescued Voehringer from extinction. “I was cruising along the freeway in sixth gear—the tach showing 3100 rpm, the speedo 80-plus mph—when I had to escape a Porsche Cayenne swapping lanes at 100 mph with two jet-skis in tow. Without a downshift, the car broke triple digits before I could break a sweat. This is a car that sleeps with one eye open. Granted, the ratio for sixth gear is 0.693:1, which does more for motivation than conservation, but it’s an Evo—here’s to motivation!” At 15,000 miles, we took the Evo to Todey Mitsubishi in Ventura, which changed the Mobil 1 oil, rotated the tires, replaced the engine air filter, and changed the A/C filter, all for $213.26 Months/miles in…

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MotorTrend (Digital) - 1 Issue, February 2008

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