THE RIGHT RECIPE

A well-rounded street car build is not something you see so often these days — it seems that our scene has partially fractured over the last decade, diverging and coagulating into more and more focused subcategories. No-nonsense race cars, battle-hardened drift cars, and period-correct restored vintage tin are now the staple diet in this country — and that’s no bad thing, but there was a time when our roads were crawling with genuine street cars that mixed just the right amounts of looks, power, and usability. That’s absolutely not to say that it’s a lost art, though. Those builds — like Sara Hansen’s daily-driven 2007 Mitsubishi Evo X — are still out there stalking the streets.

Sara clearly remembers her very first interaction with an Evo. It was, after all, a watershed moment in her life that guided her headfirst towards a long-time love of Japanese performance vehicles. “When I was 16, my friend’s brother let me drive his Evo III,” Sara explains. “I instantly fell in love with it. I’d never been in one before or even seen one. So