Mitsubishi, the car company that broke my heart, is doing oddly well these days, with a veritable “sales surge” of crossovers. But, what if I told you it could be doing even better? Yes, that is the alternate future where Mitsubishi only sold us the Colt Ralliart Version-R Special.
Mitsubishi's performance subsidiary Ralliart, responsible for supporting the company's past WRC and Dakar efforts, will wind down operations this month. With poor sales they've decided to kill the arm of the company helping make fast cars faster. UPDATE.
Mitsubishi announced today that they will be bringing the utilitarian 2010 Lancer Sportback to the U.S. this summer, quirky styling and all. Watch out, Subaru!
We knew to expect the 2009 Mitsubishi Lancer Sportback and 2009 Mitsubishi Lancer Sportback Ralliart to see an official reveal at the Paris Motor Show next week ever since we saw the Lancer Prototype-S in Geneva earlier this year. It looks like we don't even need to go to the French capital, as a bevy of shots of the…
The 2009 Mitsubishi Lancer Ralliart isn't an Evo X. It's better. That's what I keep telling myself as I drive the back roads of the Detroit exurbs in Mitsubishi's latest boosted compact. Slotting between the regular FWD Lancer 2.4 GTS and the balls-out rally car Evo X, the Ralliart seeks to put Mitsubishi on the…
We've been excited about the Mitsubishi Lancer Sportback ever since we got confirmation that it would go into production. Now, we've got official shots and details to even further whet our appetites. This is the Ralliart trim model, which will have a turbocharged 2.0-liter inline-four pumping out a WRX-battling 240…
In case you were wondering, Mitsubishi did bust out a trio of updated Galants on Thursday, and we were monumentally underwhelmed. The Galant Sport, Galant Sport V6, and the Galant Ralliart all took a bow. The cars are available with a mix and match of the 2.4 L 4 cyl MiVEC, 3.8 L V6, and 3.8L V6 equipped with MiVEC,…
Mitsubishi will show off the facelifted 2009 Mitsubishi Galant at this year's Chicago Auto Show. In addition to the mildly revised sheet metal, the car also gets new taillights and a new grille. The Galant will come in four-cylinder ES and Sport editions, V6 Sport edition and line-topping Ralliart. The Ralliart V6 is…
We don't know if these images from World Car Fans are official sketches, but they look pretty darn certifiably real to us. The concept, rumored to be coming to the 2008 Geneva Motor Show, is supposedly a lightly disguised production version of the Euro Spec 5 door Lancer Ralliart. The car will undoubtedly be powered…
The Ralliart is Mitsubishi's middle man between the Mitsubishi Lancer GTS and the Lancer EVO. The obvious rally-inspired Ralliart has a 2.0-liter, four cylinder engine sporting 235 horsepower, which is up 67 hp from the GTS, but not quite the 291 of the latest Evolution X has. It does feature Mitsubishi's dual-clutch…
Someone claiming to be an employee of a Mistubishi dealer in California managed to snap a photo of he's claiming is the 2009 Mitsubishi Lancer Ralliart "on the way to an auto show." We're going to go out on a limb and say it's for the official unveiling at the Detroit Auto Show. Mitsubishi of Europe already announced…
The JDM watchers at Nihon Car spied the upcoming Mitsubishi Evo X in Ralliart trim. It was at Tokyo's "Motor Sport Japan 2007," a spectacular of the latest JDM hardware. Apparently Mitsubishi Staff on hand wouldn't (or couldn't) divulge any information about the in-house tuner. We'll likely know more about this modded…
It looks like spy shooter Hans Lehmann ain't the only quick-shot in town, Brenda "12.1 Megapixel-Shooter" Priddy's also snagged herself some pictures of what appears to be a very high-tech looking 2009 Mitsubishi Lancer...umm...Ralliart edition? As you can see from the pictures, the intercooler's clearly visible…
We're not sure what manner of strings were pulled, but the boys at Nihon Car and Bike joined the Japanese press on a test drive of the new Mitsubishi Colt Ralliart Version-R in Japan's drift-happy Hakone region. The new Mitsu is a little car with a stiff chassis, a 154-hp MIVEC engine and an eye on the Honda Civic…
Whether or not Mitsubishi abandons the US market, its Ralliart performance division will likely continue to produce versions of its cars for the world's hot-hatch-loving tuner kids. The guys at Carscoop posted images from a translated brochure introducing a new Colt Version-R (Mitsubishi's version of Honda's Type R),…
Mitsubishi launched its latest Ralliart tuner model, built on the bones of its restyled 2007 Gallant mid-sized sedan. It's probably the most understated of the Ralliart concepts, looks-wise, and powered by the usual suspect — a MIVEC-tweaked 258-hp 3.8-liter V6 engine. A sport suspension and 18" alloys belie a…
Ralliart, Mitsubishi's in-house motorsports shop — and, since late last year (in the US), aftermarket performance parts supplier — will show off a new Gallant concept car at the Chicago auto show next week. No details on the juiced up sport coupe yet, other than that it's red and comes straight from Mitsu's Cypress,…
Man, Davey's out at SEMA with the Mopars and the chicks and the Gibbons, and here we are regurgitating press packages like they were so much past-date yogurt. The least Mitsu can do is hire a decent photographer, and at least not let him touch a cocktail until all the work is done. Case in point: These pics of…
It's part Eclipse, part Evo and better looking than either of those stock models. It's Mitsubishi's latest concept tuned to within an inch of its life by in-house speed shop Ralliart. The R boys took the Evo VIII's 2.0-liter turbocharged 4G63 engine (upclocked to ~400hp) and AWD system, and slapped them both into an…
