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Mitsubishi Motors has commissioned this interesting photoshoot featuring the Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution X and the Mitsubishi Racing Lancer MRX-09 side by side in static and action shots. Both are turbocharged and feature all-wheel drive, but they are totally different machines despite sharing the Lancer nameplate.
The Racing Lancer does not use the Lancer�s chassis, as you would already know looking at how much larger it is, or if you�ve been reading this blog�s previous coverage of the Racing Lancer. It�s actually built on a tube steel frame structure, with carbon fiber �skin� bolted on. It�s a hardcore rally machine that�s used as Mitsubishi�s entry in the Dakar 2009.
Powering it is not a variation of the 4B11T that powers the Lancer Evolution, nope. This one�s an oil burner! A 3.0 liter V6 mated to a Ricardo 5-speed sequential gearbox puts out 260 horsepower and a massive 650Nm of torque over a decent torque curve, or at least that�s what Team Repsol Mitsubishi Ralliart�s driver Hiroshi Masuoka says. According to Hiroshi, the diesel engine outperforms its petrol-powered siblings in terms of controllability on a challenging terrain, and it also rushes faster out of corners and along straights.
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