On a decent highway, the EVO rides and drives like most other vehicles, well, until you decide to play with the happy pedal, that is. Of course, then you meet up with my one pet peeve on the EVO, which is the huge whale-tail spoiler on the trunk lid. Oh yes, it might look simply drop dead gorgeous from afar, but unfortunately its positioning almost completely blocks your vision in the rearview mirror. That's a major problem in a car like this because whilst you're cruising along at the legal speed limit "of course", you might not notice your Auntie Mabel coming up behind you flashing her lights for you to pull over and say hello J
Whilst I wouldn't want to see the sharp looking spoiler disappear from the EVO, I do think that it's a problem which needs to be addressed. Maybe a secondary, smaller-thinner mirror could be positioned above the existing, allowing for two angles of rearward vision.
Keep an eye out!
Yes, this is a car in which you are constantly scanning for the black and whites. In fact, the EVO MR is so potent and so tempting that at the beginning of the week, I did consider simply walking into the local OPP station and handing over the keys together with my license, thus saving the boys in blue the trouble later on!
At first, it's hard to get your head around the fact that this car is powered by simply a 2.0L Turbocharged 4 cylinder ( 291Hp, 300lb-ft of torque), and once you've managed that, you then have a rude awakening to the knowledge that an automatic transmission can actually be more fun than a stick shift! Mind you, it is a six-speed sequential gearbox with twin automatic clutches.
Honestly, to understand that, you really need to drive an EVO MR. In fact, at TestFest, I had a well-known racing colleague riding with me on the track in this car. He seemed quite puzzled by the fact that I ran the entire course in automatic mode without paddle-shifting at all. I explained, and demonstrated, that when dialed into the super-sport mode, the auto-box shifts just as fast, if not faster, than I could.
Basically, the shifts become so rapid that if you take the brain thinking time to work the paddle shifts out, then it becomes as close as to make no difference whatsoever. The best part of all is that this not only works on the up-shifts, but also on down-shifts. In super-sport mode, if you didn't have your seatbelt on, it could actually put you through the front windscreen as it automatically gears down. It is absolutely amazing and I've never driven an automatic transmission as quick, or as much fun as this.
Whilst I wouldn't want to see the sharp looking spoiler disappear from the EVO, I do think that it's a problem which needs to be addressed. Maybe a secondary, smaller-thinner mirror could be positioned above the existing, allowing for two angles of rearward vision.
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| The 2.0L Turbocharged 4-cylinder engine pulls 291 hp and 300 lb-ft of torque. |
Keep an eye out!
Yes, this is a car in which you are constantly scanning for the black and whites. In fact, the EVO MR is so potent and so tempting that at the beginning of the week, I did consider simply walking into the local OPP station and handing over the keys together with my license, thus saving the boys in blue the trouble later on!
At first, it's hard to get your head around the fact that this car is powered by simply a 2.0L Turbocharged 4 cylinder ( 291Hp, 300lb-ft of torque), and once you've managed that, you then have a rude awakening to the knowledge that an automatic transmission can actually be more fun than a stick shift! Mind you, it is a six-speed sequential gearbox with twin automatic clutches.
Honestly, to understand that, you really need to drive an EVO MR. In fact, at TestFest, I had a well-known racing colleague riding with me on the track in this car. He seemed quite puzzled by the fact that I ran the entire course in automatic mode without paddle-shifting at all. I explained, and demonstrated, that when dialed into the super-sport mode, the auto-box shifts just as fast, if not faster, than I could.
Basically, the shifts become so rapid that if you take the brain thinking time to work the paddle shifts out, then it becomes as close as to make no difference whatsoever. The best part of all is that this not only works on the up-shifts, but also on down-shifts. In super-sport mode, if you didn't have your seatbelt on, it could actually put you through the front windscreen as it automatically gears down. It is absolutely amazing and I've never driven an automatic transmission as quick, or as much fun as this.
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| It would be oh so easy to get pulled for street-racing in this car. |