- Well, what is up you guys?!
It's your guy Alex and you wanna know,
you wanna own an Evo?
You know, those two liter, turbo'd, all-wheel drive cars,
that if you mention the name to a
WX owner their skin starts to boil.
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Those guys.
Those of you that already have one
are those that are just here to watch and kinda hangout,
you're probably just trying to figure out why we
would even make this video.
But let's just start off with some of the
basic history of the Evo.
They're ten generations.
They're literally named Evo one, Evo two,
Evo three, Evo four, Evo five and Mitsubishi was like okay,
so like what are gonna call a first generation of the Evo?
And there was a guy in the back and he was like what about
the Evo one?
(laughs) and things went really well that like year or two,
and then they're like, we want another generation,
and they're like, guys what are we going to call this?
What about the Evo two?
Things were going great at this point
they had named not one but two generations
of the Mitsubishi Evo, the Evo one and the Evo two.
Could you guess what they named the third one?
All of a sudden Mitsubishi was putting out
what looked like a Mirage
with like some hoodvent and a wing.
And queue everybody getting mad for us saying that
but it pretty much back in the day
was something pretty similar to that.
Did I mention they actually managed
to squeeze ten generations of this car from 1992 to 2016,
which is only 24 years.
They were revising these things and pumping them out
like crazy, but it was for good reason.
Evo's are some of the most popular cars out there.
Unfortunately, the sad thing is over here
in the right ol' US of A,
we didn't get our hands on any of them
until the eighth generation, which is fine, it's whatever.
It's not like we get any of the cool stuff first,
when it comes to JDM stuff or Japanese stuff
or anything like that, the Midwest is last,
but the USA is like the Midwest of the world.
So I'm mean it's fine.
The Eva was actually only intended for the Japanese market,
but since there was such a large demand for them,
they really started to spread across the world.
Us being (clears throat) last.
Part of the eight generations popularity was because
it was an easily modifiable turbo four cylinder
that was a direct competitor
to some of the most popular cars out there at the time.
The WX, the STI's and the SRT four's.
And the other part of it was because of,
I mean, you guessed it, Hollywood.
Again Paul Walker started and great love for these cars
in the hearts of many people in our generation,
when they were young, you know
and they saw the Evo seven in Too Fast Too Furious.
And then we saw the Evo eight
in arguably the best Fast and the Furious, Tokyo Drift.
And yeah, I mean, yeah as a generation
we were kinda sold on them, we had to have one.
And from there and just kind of blew up.
It was like the car to have.
The Evo is the competitor for Subaru WRX.
Both are fun, turbo four cylinders
that were designed for rally.
So there's a blast to just send up ripping around
especially in Autocross.
We're not gonna get into the STI vs Evo thing,
we're just gonna say Subaru WRX.
Don't get mad, I get it.
Evo's had a heart of gold, technically iron.
That was a staple in the Evo community.
The 4G63 engine powered the Evo
and people absolutely adored this thing.
And, I mean adored it.
The engine had such a long pedigree from when Mitsubishi
was really into Motorsports.
It built a reputation for itself and become iconic
because of I mean, it was iconic.
Except for pretty much the Evo ten
that had the 4B11 instead, which is a bit of a sore subject
that we're not going to dive too deep into.
So what should you expect of one.
Well if you're looking for a car that has a crazy amount
of potential aftermarket power?
You touching my car?
This is it.
You can build these things to be
pretty much anything that you want.
They have an aggressive look,
so they can be built to be track cars,
they can be built to be drag cars,
they even be built to be a show car,
especially the Evo ten's,
even though they have a very thick wide end.
You can fit pretty aggressive meaty setups on these cars
with very little modifications.
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If you're looking for mediocre gas mileage,
you've probably come to the right place,
because usually if you're not flooring it every two seconds,
which you're probably gonna do
because it's a turbo four cylinder,
you can expect somewhere around 20 miles to the gallon,
which is not really that good for a turbo four cylinder.
So it's not bad but it's just not like great.
You can actually, I mean it's okay.
You can typically reach four to 500 ponies
before you end up running into internal issues
and all of that fun stuff.
But another thing that you're probably gonna wanna consider
is that they respond very well to mods,
but they're very sensitive.
Let's imagine, for instance, like, everybody just hanging
out they're having a good time
but everybody has that one super moody friend
that for no other reason,
just randomly just decides to not have a good time.
Like that is an Evo.
It's just what it is,
and you just kinda learn to expect it out of the car.
Every once in a while they get little bit finicky,
they get a little bit weird
when you start putting modifications to them,
but if you're okay with that,
if you're okay with a little mood swing,
if you're okay with a little imbalance, then it's okay.
You're going to enjoy it.
You're just gonna wanna make sure you do research
and know what you're doing.
They have a huge following and are loved
by like a ton of people.
So if you're into that, like, four cylinder turbo game,
and you really want to have like, a huge market platform
to do a lot of crazy stuff
and you're relatively new to the car scene,
the Evo is actually gonna be pretty okay for you.
You're just gonna have to expect
that you're going to spend a good amount of money on one,
because they're not necessarily the cheapest
and they're not exactly the easiest modify
in terms of overall cost.
A lot of times you can get them used, you can get them new,
but we'd highly recommend that you buy them used
because wait no.
We highly recommend that you buy them unmodified
because if you buy one modified,
you're probably going to have a bad time.
A lot of times with any sort of aftermarket vehicle,
not just Evo's, they just are more picky than other ones,
it just doesn't always behave the way that you want.
But you know how like with Subaru drivers,
if you have, like a WRX and let's say an STI is going by,
and like you wave, you do like the two finger wave
or maybe like the peace sign peace, love, thumbs up.
You know like usually an STI guy will wave back
or like do the or like the or the oomph,
you know that thing, Evo guys don't do that.
They just...if you have a Ralliart
and you do that to an Evo, you're going to have a bad time.
Just don't expect it to happen, okay.
So we actually sat down with one of the guys at work
that owns an Evo and he said, quote,
and his name is Zach if any of you guys wanna throw hands,
don't throw hands at me.
He said, we think we're better than everyone else,
because we are.
So have fun with that one.
All Evo owners want to do is,
I guess just be angry and stuff like that
and replace their transmissions.
I don't know, they're a bit of a strange breed.
So what are like the cons of these cars?
Well, they're like thick boys, like big.
They're about 3,700 pounds for an Evo ten.
So if you're looking for a cheap car or light car,
you're probably going to wanna look elsewhere,
especially like the older generations.
You're not going to find a clean one,
for like a good price at all.
We've already talked about it,
but there is an Evo tax that's out there.
So unless you don't mind paying that Evo tax,
you're gonna have a difficult time actually finding one.
Another thing to remember is that their gearing is a little,
it's a little odd, especially in the tens
or the X's or whatever you wanna say.
One through fourth is very short because rally car,
but fifth is like a cruising gear.
So it's like awkward and kind of useless, which is odd.
While we're on the topics of Evo tens,
lets talk about their achilles heel,
the active yaw control pump.
Although this gives the ten a little bit more advantage
over it's older gnerations,
these are known for going out
and it's not covered under warranty,
which is, it is even expensive bit.
On another note, if you're looking for a luxury car,
you probably shouldn't buy one,
because they're a little bit aggressive,
and pretty racecary, which isn't a word, but it is now
So there you have it.
If you're looking for fun, aggressive, snappy,
four cylinder sedan thing,
that makes a lot of angry noises and can go really fast.
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That sometimes works and sometimes doesn't,
which sounds like many tuner JDM car.
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But this one is more expensive and has a bigger following,
then the Evo is definitely for you.
It's actually pretty fun car.
And if you get one that's like a thousand horsepower,
you will not believe just how insanely scary those cars are.
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- We just went 120 (laugher)
I'm not even kidding you.
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