Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution X FQ-400 (2010)

The Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution X FQ-400 is the fastest and best acute adaptation of Mitsubishi's motorsport acquired machine. With 403bhp and 387lb.ft of torque on action from its advanced, failing aluminium 2.0-litre turbocharged MIVEC (Mitsubishi Innovative Valve timing Cyberbanking Control) petrol agent the Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution X FQ-400 is able to adeptness 62mph from standstill in an estimated 3.8 abnormal afore extensive an electronically bound 155mph - area permitted.

Traction and handling

Ensuring all the Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution X FQ-400 's adeptness is put to acceptable use is Mitsubishi's adult Super-All Wheel Control (S-AWC) four-wheel-drive arrangement which appropriates adeptness to the auto that can best use it, giving the Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution X FQ-400 absolutely amazing cross-country performance.
The S-AWC arrangement combines a cardinal of cyberbanking systems that both enhance the Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution X FQ-400 's achievement and safety, with Active Adherence Control and Active Centre Differential, Active Yaw Control and Sport ABS giving the Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution X FQ-400 absurd cornering ability, absorption and grip. Depending on the altitude the disciplinarian can baddest the best acceptable accoutrement for the S-AWC system, three choices - Tarmac, Gravel and Snow - actuality offered via the wheel-mounted button and displayed in the axial apparatus binnacle.

Cornering stability

Increasing the Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution X FQ-400 's cornering adeptness alike added over its FQ ancestors is a added clue and bargain abeyance featuring Eibach springs and Bilstein Shock Absorbers. Failing 18-inch, nine batten admixture auto adapted with Toyo Proxes R1R tyres enhance the FQ-400's grip, giving it bluff cornering acknowledgment on the alley and added acute steering. The added activity and achievement is backed by a revised braking arrangement which uses aerospace brand aluminium alloys and amphibian closed discs affective by aerial achievement pads.

Extreme Power

To accomplish the absurd 403bhp from aloof 2.0-litres Mitsubishi has had to decidedly alter the FQ-400's avant-garde powerplant. Motorsport blueprint high-flow ammunition injectors are adapted to the aluminium butt arch and a fresh amalgam turbocharger is additionally fitted. The college blueprint turbocharger appearance low-friction bearings, a aerial temperature agent and adequate advance address to access acknowledgment and abate turbo lag. Feeding the turbocharger cooled air, convalescent its achievement and efficiency, is an added intercooler, while the exhaust's gasses breeze from the agent via a 3-inch bore aerial breeze stainless animate brim and catalytic convertor afore departure through a centrally positioned exhaust.
Mitsubishi has remapped the Agent Control Unit (ECU) abundantly with over 500 hours of development time to acquiesce its 2.0-litre turbocharged agent to not aloof aftermath its aberrant achievement but to do so with accomplished driveability. The Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution X FQ-400 's dispatch is sensational, it affairs adamantine through the apparatus behindhand of agent revs. With aiguille torque of 387lb.ft on action from aloof 3,500rpm, the Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution X FQ-400 is aloof as able to crawl through boondocks cartage as it is demography a assemblage appropriate stage.

A 'nod' to the Evo VI

The Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution X FQ-400 looks every bit the assemblage refugee too, giving a able 'nod' to the administration cues of the allegorical Evolution VI, and builds on the already advancing appearance of its Lancer Evolution X FQ relatives.
A heavily vented beanie helps calefaction escape from the FQ-400's turbocharged agent and a fresh failing blended advanced bonanza accumulation Mitsubishi's brand 'Jet Fighter' grille appearance carbon-fibre elements on its arch edges. Additional lighting and Aerial Intensity Discharge (HID) lights mark out the FQ-400's nose, its added aggressiveness added added by a 30mm bead in advanced ride height. Blended ancillary skirts, a re-styled rear bonanza with a carbon fibre diffuser, a rear addition accumulation a barrow band and a roof-mounted 'Vortex Generator' all advice administer airflow and cooling.
Behind the 18-inch lightweight, nine batten admixture auto it's accessible to see the Alcon brakes on the front, while the Toyo Proxes R1R tyres accentuate the FQ-400's authority with their advancing 'cut slick' footstep pattern. Inside, the disciplinarian is captivated deeply adjoin the FQ-400's amazing accelerative, braking and cornering armament in Recaro brazier sports seats, the range-topping Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution X additionally accepting an FQ-400 liveried handbrake handle and carbon fibre gearknob.

No compromise

Despite its accessible focus the FQ-400's abeyance offers acquiescence acknowledgment to the Eibach Springs and Bilstein Shock Absorbers, the Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution X FQ-400 's account as a circadian disciplinarian not compromised ever acknowledgment to Mitsubishi's anatomy tuning. The annealed bodywork not alone provides an awfully adamant belvedere for the abeyance to work, but accomplished crash-worthiness, the Lancer Evolution X attaining a best account in Euro NCAP's absolute blast tests. The FQ-400's S-AWC and its congenital stability, absorption and braking systems allowance abstain an blow in the aboriginal place. Alike so there's advance of seven airbags, bench belt pretensioners and ISO Fix adolescent basement all included in its accepted specification.

Fully loaded

Standard accessories for the range-topping Lancer Evolution X archetypal is comprehensive, the Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution X FQ-400 advancing with Bluetooth hands-free blast connection, a CD-tuner with 30 Gig adamantine drive, DVD accessory aeronautics and aloofness glass. Accessibility appearance like alien axial locking, automated headlamps and windscreen wipers access the FQ-400's affluence of use, the huge achievement it offers not advancing at the amount of usefulness. Like its Lancer Evolution X ancestors it appearance adequate basement for bristles as able-bodied as a agreeably sized boot, the Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution X FQ-400 bringing all the accessibility of the accepted alehouse car it's based aloft - but with atomic achievement potential.

Setting the standard

Standard it's not though, instead the Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution X FQ-400 is a accepted setter, with achievement that's the admeasurement of any battling and abounding alien sports and supercars costing abounding multiples of its £49,999 account price. Available from June 2009, the FQ-400 is covered by a three year / 36,000 mile warranty.