I love my Evo VIII to death, but the V is on my list of “must have somehow”. I just love the giant fog lamps crammed into the front fascia. I had the opportunity to drive a VI and it was even more of an intense ride than the VIII. The shorter wheelbase made it feel extremely eager on turn in and the car felt ready to… Read more
Hey now, yes there are compromises in the Evo to make it a road car, but it’s still pretty raw for a production vehicle. By the time we got the VIII here in the US, it wasn’t really a homologation special for WRC, but it was built for homologation in Group N. Sure, it’s not a race car, but it’s far from an ordinary… Read more
The upper area of the tailgate is strange, but I wonder if there is an aero benefit along with the durability aspect. Most, if not all, modern trucks have a sort of air trip on the upper edge of the tailgate to act as a break-off point for airflow. This seems a somewhat different way of handling it without extending… Read more
Everything about this story is just patently absurd. From the swollen balls anecdote all the way to the fact that there are FAR too many people out there unwilling to take a life saving vaccine because of ALL the stupid reasons. It just keeps reinforcing how utterly fucked up it is now that we can know every famous… Read more