Mitsubishi Lancer Ralliart Track Video

SEE IF RALLIART BEATS WRX:
http://www.edmunds.com/insideline/do/Drives/Comparos/articleId=138347

Stuff the 2009 Subaru Impreza WRX into a corner, and you know it deserves a rematch with the 2009 Mitsubishi Lancer Ralliart.

It's no less refined than the 2008 WRX, but it goes in without paralyzing understeer and doesn't keel over as soon as you load the outside tires. Provoke it and you'll get some attitude. When you're back on the throttle hard at the exit, there's no rush to grab 3rd gear. Rescued from last year's rev-starved funk, the 2.5-liter boxer-4 engine wants to see its 6,500-rpm redline again.

Most important, the 2009 Subaru Impreza WRX isn't trying so hard to distance you from the drive. It rewards your efforts in the cockpit — one of the things that made the previous-generation WRX so likable.

Probably this is also why the 2009 Mitsubishi Lancer Ralliart is so involving to drive. Introduced last summer, this Lancer Ralliart is the long-awaited head-on challenge to the WRX dynasty and it kicked the 2008 WRX while it was down. Even compared to the 2009 WRX, Mitsubishi's Ralliart is a flashier package. It has mechanical limited-slip differentials both front and rear, a very neat automated dual-clutch gearbox, Recaro seats and the schnoz of a tiger shark. Evo Jr. has a nice stiff chassis, too.

If the homely gray Subaru has any shot at winning here, it will have to do more with less.

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[kitikitiboy]

@mitsufq360 the mazdaspeed 3 has a lot of power and cheap compare to Ralliart but IMAO i hate the smiley face on the front bumper looks ridiculuos mazda really messed up with the design...the ralliart has a lot of potential just a few mods like AMS base flash, cat back exhaust and intake and your good to go....thats just me....enjoy your MS3!

[leabuelo]

is this car awd ?

[COOLRADIUM]

@CaptObvious75 DAMN.....WHOA. I don't even know what to say. I guess I'm lucky to live in the US then. I feel so bad for you guys. I guess I would have never owned my EVO MR if I'd lived there. C'mon. $48 grand plus a 13% tax for the MR! 0_o. SAD......What a rip off. I consider that RAPE. I payed $33,000 for my MR with a trade and no down payment.

[CaptObvious75]

@COOLRADIUM Ralliart starts at 32k and GSR Evo starts at 42k. Evo MR starts at a brutal 48k... all of that is before our 13% sales tax. You see a ton more Ralliarts on the road than Evos in Canada simply cause of the price difference. Bang for buck wise we can tune a RA to near Evo numbers for 500.00 and save 10k, all while getting the sweet TCSST tranny.

I'd buy a used GSR over a used RA... but gladly buy a new RA over a GSR. If we had the USA prices... then it really would not be a question.

[COOLRADIUM]

@CaptObvious75 Wow.....Really! What's the price point for the GSR and the RA in Canada.

[CaptObvious75]

@COOLRADIUM In the USA yes... not in Canada.

[broodsniper]

@leabuelo Yes

[COOLRADIUM]

If you can afford a RA you can afford a GSR.

[NasahrSandi9]

@xXTigerArmyXx wow, I didn'e think it would be that good. I'm might just get one, or a mustang 5.0.

[xXTigerArmyXx]

@NasahrSandi9 I love driving this car! Honestly, I love driving it so much, I take it out for drives when I have absolutely nothing to do, hit up some canyon roads, punch it. I am running a Cobb stage 1 map, about to go stage 2, but I am consistently running 0-60 in straight 5.