Wiborg — sounds familiar, doesn’t it? It should, because back in #295, we paid a visit to Wiborg Engineering to explore their contraption, the Wiborg Evo 6 Silhouette 2.0. Guess what? The brothers are back, this time with a car that, if you squint really, really hard (Clint Eastwood-level of openness of the eyes), kinda looks like an old Mitsubishi Evo VI. This new thing, dubbed the Wiborg Evo Silhouette 2.5, shares the engine block and some body lines with an original Evo. The rest is from the mad, mad place that is the inside of Mikael Wiborg’s noggin.
Delving into the roots of this project, it becomes evident that the Evo Silhouette 2.5 is not just anbread and butter for the Wiborg team, so it only made sense to continue with the platform and prove its dominance even further. However, switching from all-wheel drive to rear-wheel drive was a big change. This goes back as far as when the previous car was being built, and the challenges with weight came into play — both the overall weight and distribution. But how much can you do when you have a set wheelbase and transverse engine? Not a lot, as it turned out. The good thing with this is that it’s built with nothing to do with the Mitsubishi Evo other than the name and engine block (at the time of writing, that is). This change on its own freed up a lot of weight (around 100kgs was saved) and made it easier with aero modifications, as it doesn’t have to house the lump of an engine anymore.
