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| Clarkson's Review Of The Fq360 | |
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| Tweet Topic Started: Jan 22 2007, 01:22 PM (90 Views) | |
| MR 8 | Jan 22 2007, 01:22 PM Post #1 |
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From the Sunday Times - Starts with a few paragraphs of waffle about overtaking old people then gets to the point:- The only solution, then, is to buy a car with so much power that no matter how small the gap you can always get past. This, of course, brings us to the door of Mitsubishi’s new Evo IX FQ-360, which is not to be confused with either the IX FQ-400, or the IX FQ-340, 320 or 300. And though it may look the same as the old VIII MR FQ, it isn’t the same as that either. Like all modern technology, the Evo’s nomenclature is deliberately designed to confuse the elderly. Anyone who grew up with the Austin 7 is going to be driven screaming from the showroom by the sheer complexity of all those letters and numbers. The car, too, is designed to terrify those whose bones are brittle and whose minds have lost the ability to deal with mini-roundabouts or clearly marked signs saying “Queue Here”. It doesn’t glide or fly, this car. It darts. And it doesn’t purr or snarl either. It shouts. Honestly, I’m amazed it doesn’t come with an electronic ankle bracelet and a Burberry roof. The Evo is now in its ninth incarnation. The shuffle from one to the next has been subtle, like the movement in one of Gromit’s ears. Only if you compare the ninth to, say, the fourth do you see a perceptible advance. In essence they’re all staggeringly brilliant. Hard and uncompromising and loud, yes. But capable of such immense speed, especially round corners, that anyone who likes driving even just a little bit is always left gasping for breath. My wife, who uses an Aston V8 as her everyday car, says that the Evo is her idea of absolute and utter motoring perfection. There was one mistake, though. The Evo 400. Instead of shuffling forward, the engineers tried a giant leap and failed. Yes, they squeezed 400bhp from the 2 litre engine — an amazing 200bhp per litre — but the turbo lag was so bad and the speed so great that bits of the body peeled away if you even attempted to go flat out. It was a horrid car. So for the 360 they’ve taken the idea of the 400 but reined it all back a bit. Disappointing? Not at all. It’ll still get from 0 to 60 nearly a full second faster than a Porsche 911 Carrera S, but it’s all so much more driveable than the car it replaces. Actually, it’s much more driveable than pretty much anything. At first it’s scary, but as you get to know it and you start to realise that it won’t fly off the road, everything — the grip, the handling and the unbelievable, seamless barrel of torque and power — becomes almost hysterical. Better still, behind the spoilers and the wheelie bin they use for an exhaust, it has a big boot, four doors and all the luxuries you could reasonably expect. And it only costs £35,539. Or £34,500 if you decide to do without the leather trim. A car like this, then, is almost never caught out. It works in city centres because yobs love a yob and ecomentalists don’t know what it is. It works on the school run. It works on the track. It works, thanks to four-wheel drive, in the gymkhana car park. But it works best of all when you’re on the A44 and the bastard in front is doing 25mph. |
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| Dark Blue Mark | Jan 24 2007, 03:07 PM Post #2 |
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Or buy an FQ300 and Ecutek it ![]() MB |
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Evo 8 MR 340 - modified Honda S2000 - soon to be track ready Exige S - modified - sold :boohoo: | |
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| MR 8 | Jan 24 2007, 03:28 PM Post #3 |
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Well yeah there is always that Mind you the BBS rims one the newer 9's are pretty nice I was behind a Red E9 340 on the the b ford bypass the other day and there wasnt, if anything in it Was awesome though having two Evo's blasting reminded me of when we all went to that scoob meet out Salisbury way
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