It's an easy car to drive slowly - it's based on a mitsubishi lancer after all. Both aspects have been uprated through the strategic placement of reinforcements (though at the cost of increased bulk) and reinforcements have also been added to conform with u. It just goes, turns and stops like nothing you've ever driven before. Since the system keeps leveling for several minutes after you turn the car off (to deal with air in the springs cooling), you can park on an uneven surface, go buy a six pack of schlitz, and come back to find your car picking a wheel up off the ground in an attempt to put all the wheels where they belong.

There's no denying the rally-bred japanese car's popularity, and we've seen this in evidence for the last few years as some of our highest ranking pages have the been evo pages, whether the evo vi tme (tommi mäkinen edition) road test, or the evo vii cover story. The evolution viii's exterior is far fromsubtle, a bit like its power delivery really on gravel it becomes apparent just how good the more rigid frame is, as you can feel exactly when it's going to slide, and make the appropriate recalibrations (stomp throttle, turn wheel, powerslide from hell).

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