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Mitsubishi's LA Design Challenge Entry Reveals MMR25, Rally Racer Of The Future

Each year the LA Auto Show pits the best of the best of designers from the automakers to try and design some creative looks at our automotive future. Last year, it was all about "green," but this year, the project's called Motorsport 2025, and it's designed to show off what the race car of 2025 will look like. While we don't have the full gamut of responses to show off yet, we do have a sneak peek at Mitsubishi's entry to the quasi-esteemed contest based totally in unreality. It's called the MMR25 Rally Racer and yes, it's meant for the rally courses of the future. Frankly, we were kind of hoping dirt would be abolished by 2025. Full press release after the jump — along with a rear view of the dirty red racer.

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9:30 PM on Fri Sep 26 2008
By Ray Wert
26,993 views, 52 comments

Latest by botsapper: Cool transitions on smooth surfaces. Unsure about that kind of loose dirt off-road capabilities, there is very limited traction surface more »

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2009 Mitsubishi Lancer Sportback, Ralliart Break Cover Early On Way To Paris

We knew to expect the 2009 Mitsubishi Lancer Sportback and 2009 Mitsubishi Lancer Sportback Ralliart to see an official reveal at the Paris Motor Show next week ever since we saw the Lancer Prototype-S in Geneva earlier this year. It looks like we don't even need to go to the French capital, as a bevy of shots of the two new Lancer sportbacks have broken free of the confines of their embargoes to show us what we'll see live next week.

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8:15 AM on Thu Sep 25 2008
By Wes Siler
1,951 views, 28 comments

Latest by Naturally Exasperated?: I rather like the new Lancers. All EXCEPT the Evo. Evo's are the hideous cousin to the very fine-looking standard more »

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PCH, Rebadged Japanese Turbo Edition: Chevrolet Sprint Turbo or Dodge Colt Turbo?

Welcome to Project Car Hell, where you choose your eternity by selecting the project that's the coolest... and the most hellish! Once we gave Germany a second chance against PCH Superpower Italy, they pulled off the upset- that's right, the Mercedes-Benz 600 Pullman (just barely) beat the Lamborghini Urraco in yesterday's Choose Your Eternity poll! But what about the Japanese? They totally get shortchanged in Project Car Hell, what with their cars' excessive reliability and ease of parts obtainment. Well, how about a couple of bargain-priced subcompacts from Japan, equipped with Detroit badges and jittery, hoon-friendly turbocharged engines? You know every last one of these cars has spent most of its career at shrieking, valve-floating revs with some kid's sneaker mashing the gas pedal to the floor (while operating a four-foot bong and working the gearshift at the same time), all the while getting zero maintenance and running on the very cheapest Stop-N-Rob gasoline.
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5:20 PM on Fri Sep 19 2008
By Murilee Martin
3,088 views, 54 comments

Latest by TR3-A: Neither. If I am to go to hell, it will be in a RWD car. more »

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Mitsubishi Colt Is Mystery Machine Coming To Paris Motor Show

Remember that mysterious Mitsubishi image we showed you earlier this week? Turns out it was the shaded visage of a restyled Mitsubishi Colt set to debut under the lights of the Paris Motor Show next month. The Colt never died in Europe like it did in the US, but the new version dumps the funky grille for the new Mitsubishi "angry-face" styling — and actually wears it pretty well. So well in fact, we actually think the Colt kinda looks like a pocket-sized badass. It definitely looks like it could beat up the Pontiac G3 and take its lunch money.


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1:30 PM on Fri Sep 19 2008
By Ben Wojdyla
1,554 views, 30 comments

Latest by EuropaBambaataa: @WilliamG.: You mean this? more »

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Mysterious Mitsubishi Coming To Paris

An image of an as-yet-unknown Mitsubishi set for a global unveil at the 2008 Paris Motor Show has surfaced, and it helps nobody. They might as well have released an image of a Mitsubishi dealership and put an arrow on it saying, "It goes in here" because the Mitsu "angry face" we see here looks pretty much exactly like the one visible on the current Lancer. More »

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10:20 AM on Mon Sep 15 2008
By Ben Wojdyla
2,315 views, 33 comments

Latest by xintillium: Why so many wild speculations??? An article in Nihoncar says "The Racing Lancer will be officially unveiled on Thursday October 2 more »

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Diesel-Powered Mitsubishi Racing Lancer Fulfills Every Post-Apocalypse Fantasy Ever, Has 480 Lb-Ft Of Torque

Some of us spent a large portion of our youth preparing for the coming apocalypse. No, not in the creepy “our mom was Sarah Connor” sense, but in the totally normal and respectable type of advanced weapons and survival training that everyone does when they’re 12, right? Understandably this has created a significantly high level of anticipation for the inevitable alien invasion / nuclear winter / ape takeover. And now, we’ve found the perfect survival vehicle. It’s the Mitsubishi Racing Lancer equipped with a 260 HP, 480 lb.-ft. diesel engine.

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4:30 PM on Sat Aug 23 2008
By Wes Siler
9,357 views, 39 comments

Latest by DSLPWR: @DoctorNine: That was the UNIMOG... All these vehicles create frustration because, while they advertise that they're diesel, the majority of them more »

2008 mitsubishi lancer evolution

Mitsubishi Lancer Evo X Owner Presses On Gas, Pedal Breaks Off

One Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution owner was understandably surprised when the gas pedal on his nearly new $40,000 car snapped off right under his foot. With just 2000 miles on the clock of his Evo X, the owner claims he was driving "with a little enthusiasm," pressed down on the gas pedal "as I normally would", at which point he claims the piece of asterisks broke off completely.

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11:20 AM on Thu Aug 7 2008
By Mark Arnold
6,589 views, 81 comments

Latest by MrSatan: Mitsubishi's have always been pieces of shit. I remember checking some out at the Pike's Peak rally and the 2 more »

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UAW Keeping Strike Plans A Secret From Mitsubishi, Relationship Troubles To Follow

Automotive News reports UAW Local 2448 is planning to keep a recent strike vote secret until its contract with Mitsubishi passes the negotiation deadline of August 28th. The Normal, IL facility that employs the Local 2448 workers currently produces the dozen or so Endeavours, Eclipses, and Galants Mitsu tries to sell here every year. The union's secrecy strikes us as bizarre, considering the UAW's traditional approach to negotiation is boisterous grandstanding followed by explanations of "tough times" when it can't deliver the beef. Maybe there's something unnatural in the water in Normal. [Auto News (Sub. Req.)]

1:20 PM on Tue Aug 5 2008
By Ben Wojdyla
695 views, 15 comments

Latest by Turboner: Think they messed up when they stopped making DSM's at that plant? I do. more »

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Mitsubishi Evo Flips At X-Games Rally

The 2008 X-Games Rally held in Carson, California this weekend saw Andrew Comrie Picard launch his Mitsubishi Evo over the big stadium jump, come up short, and flip the car end over end back onto its wheels. The driver and co-driver were uninjured, but the car, as you can see from the in-car angle, wasn't able to continue driving. More »

5:00 PM on Mon Aug 4 2008
By Mark Arnold
8,024 views, 49 comments

Latest by escapenguin: @delta5: I second that... more »

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Mitsubishi Lancer Sportback-X To Dress In Lesbian Chic

Today brings new info on the pending Mitsubishi Lancer Sportback. According to unnamed Japanese sources, there's another variant in the works dubbed the Mitsubishi Lancer Sportback-X. The "X" stands for extreme, obviously: Just look at the rock-crushing fender flares, the lifted suspension and the Subaru Impreza Outback-challenging ruggedness. More »

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11:20 AM on Wed Jul 30 2008
By Ben Wojdyla
2,436 views, 33 comments

Latest by DiscoQuinn: I must've been born a lesbian. I like it, but It needs to be a respectable ride height, it'll never more »