I’ve been thinking a lot about the Mitsubishi Evo IX lately. I’m awake at night thinking about a turbocharged 4, all wheel drive, rally provenance. My productivity has been reduced to nothing as I dream of the performance version of a startlingly average sedan. I can do nothing else but think, dream, and feel Evo. 

Tommi Antero Mäkinen capped off four World Rally Championship drivers titles in a row twenty years ago in 1999. He won eighteen rallies in four years to win four titles from 1996 to 1999, a then-impossible feat. Juha Kankkunen had four titles, but took eight years to complete the task, and three different…