MITSUBISHI LANCER

’07 TO ’16

AROUND 20 YEARS ago, to car enthusiasts in Australia, Red versus Blue didn’t just mean Holden and Ford. It also meant Mitsubishi versus Subaru and Tommi Mäkinen versus Colin McRae.

To many, the word ‘Evolution’ evokes airborne images of the four-time World Rally Champion in his 1999 Evo VI. If you’re a bit younger, perhaps it’s the Evo IX as the last Evo developed in tandem with Mitsubishi’s World Rally campaign, which seceded in 2005.

Surrounded by a booming nostalgia-fuelled secondary car market, the final Lancer Evolution X is rarely in that