I guess you must live in an area where no one buys Evos. I see multiple different colors sometimes on a daily basis all of the time. I don't need a internet link to tell me my eyes are lying. Hell, there were a blue and a yellow Evo parked next to each other at Burger King earlier this week. I had two friends in school who each had an Evo each, a red one and a silver one. There is on at a dealership near me that is gunmetal.

Think what you want, you obviously want to hate the car. I could head over to Diambrosio Dodge in my area pick up an Evo RS there for the same price I quoted you though (it is a joint Dodge/Mitsubishi dealership.) Sorry, sometimes internet sources are incorrect, hence why i gave you more than one link. When the GTOs came out, many of them were overpriced. Doesn't mean I couldn't find one for MSRP though, if I was willing to really look for one.

Does the original muscle car formula go something like sticking a hi performance engine in an ordinary car, and supplementing it with performance goodies. That sounds like a muscle car to me. You may have a different interpretation of it, but the STI/Evo meet the most basic of muscle car requirements.

*edit - http://www.mitsubishimotors.com/MMSA...&1136572463234

Mitsubishi's own website. Only the RS has two color options. A regular Evo IX, which prices pretty close to GTO (actually cheaper), has 5 color options for 2006 ( I don't know what they did with yellow???).

 

I'm not disputing the totality of colors on cars out there (possibly some you've seen are 05's?). I saw a yellow EVO at WalMart the other day (how appropriate!). But if you look at my post - I was referring to the EVO RS only - and it is indeed true, according to three web sites (including the one you just now tossed in, Michibuchi's very own) - the RS is only available in red and white. If you want something other than that, you must step up with your checkbook in hand and cough up more $$. I priced an EVO IX on the Mitsu site, and to *try* and get it up to the feature set on a GTO, it still comes out at a higher sticker price than the Goat, something like $34,700 (I took off about $1000 to get to that number, since it would include a sunroof, and it costs about $1k to get a Webasto sunroof put on a GTO). So it goes back to my earlier point... these econoboxes are anything BUT econo.

http://www.musclecarclub.com/musclec...finition.shtml

Maybe someday, the EVO will earn the right to be listed with the other hallowed entries in the above list. (Maybe they'll make a new category - "tinny boxy weedwhacker exhaust muscle cars" ). For now, the list stops with the GTO which they remark to be "the first true muscle car"

 

I just want to see more performance options. I don't care import or domestic. Let the enthusiast community be happy! I lean to the import/turbo/AWD/sedan or wagon scene because it fits my needs (at least for my daily driver). Others want RWD/V8/coupe/domestic. Fine! Bring on the choices!

-B

 

God I can't not WAIT for the Challenger to come out. My dad will most likely buy one.