MITSUBISHI LANCER

Saloon 2.0 EVO IX MR FQ-360 4dr (2008/57)
SOLD
  • Car Type CATEGORYSaloon
  • Transmission TRANSMISSIONManual
  • MILEAGE15,500
  • Fuel FUELPetrol
  • BHP354
  • CC CC1,997CC
  • Year YEAR2008
  • Insurance INSURANCEGroup 43

DESCRIPTION

RESERVED, WE WANT YOUR EVO

THIS EXAMPLE HAS NOW BEEN RESERVED,

HOWEVER IF YOU HAVE A SIMILAR EXAMPLE, A SPORTS, PRESTIGE OR PERFORMANCE CAR, PLEASE CONTACT US WITH WHAT YOU HAVE, FOR A QUICK, HASSLE FREE SALE...WE OFFER A FRIENDLY, RELIABLE AND SAFE SERVICE, FROM A TRUSTED SPECIALIST.

WE CAN CLEAR FINANCE AND OFFER SECURE BANK TRANSFER WITH FASTER PAYMENT.YOU DO NOT HAVE TO BE BUYING A CAR FROM US, WE WILL ENDEAVOUR TO BEAT ANY GENUINE PART EXCHANGE OR TRADE PRICE.

PLEASE GET IN TOUCH IF YOU ARE CONSIDERING SELLING ANYTHING THAT MEETS OUR STOCK PROFILE. THANK YOU

🏁 Following a recent Government announcement and guidelines, we are pleased to announce our showroom is back open to the public.

⚠️ We will be operating on an Appointment Only Basis, with extra safety and cleaning measures in place, for your and our safety.

🚗Test Drives will only be conducted as part of the collection process, for additional safety and due to the extra cleaning measures in place, plus time taken to prepare cars.

📞 We are available via phone or email, to answer any questions you may have. We can also conduct virtual video viewings by appointment.

🚘 Remote Finance, delivery and part exchange facilities available. Please contact us to discuss.

👀 We are always looking to expand our stock inventory, if you are selling a car that meets our stock profile, get in touch.

Pricing Subject to level of preparation for new owner, please call to discuss.

Here we have the highly sought after Mitsubishi Evolution IX FQ360 By HKS (Evo 9 MR) (All Wheel Drive) finished in Cool Silver Metallic with the desirable extra cost IX MR Embroidered Half Black Leather and Alcantara, contrasting Red Stitching Recaro Sports Bucket Seats. One of the last Registered 08 Registration Cars, this fabulous example has travelled just 15,500 miles from new, one of the best left. 3 Registered Keepers (latest one a family member due to bereavement) 

Previously owned by a friend of the company, purchased back in our Xtreme UK days, as a 1 previous owner car, in December 2008 on just 4,000 miles, by a true enthusiast, Not driven in rain, winter (at all) and garaged. Unfortunately the owner became ill in 2016 and it has not been driven since, it was trailered to a specialist in 2020 for a re-commissioning service and returned to dry storage. This car meant everything to the previous owner.

Andy (Our sales director) has personally owned 12+ IX MR's, our company heritage being Ralliart UK/Xtreme, we have seen around 80-100 of the apparent 225 produced. Although we know there are a few examples with lower mileage/owners, we are confident in saying this is one of the best UK IX MR FQ360 left. It is a genuine un-restored UK MR, with Factory paint on all metal panels (digitally paint depth inspected).

There were just (33 Licenced and 34 SORN) MR’s (out of 225 allegedly produced) registered for road use in Q1 of 2021 making this a very limited edition Mitsubishi Evo, some have been shipped overseas, others into collections, and sadly, some written off!  Most experts agree that the MR FQ360 is the best all-rounder road going Rally Bred Evo Model.

Few would disagree that the final 4g63 Engine Evo IX model will be most one of the most collectable and desirable of the lineage, prices have seen drastic price increases in recent years and with so few UK MR360's produced we can only see prices going one way. We know a number of serious collectors too who have added limited Evo's to their collections, sitting alongside the likes of Ferrari's and Porsche GT2 and GT3 models! and as a high day/holiday modern classic an Evo is a brilliant driving experience (as well as an investment) and one that will still show a clean pair of heels to many a supercar too on a twisty B road!

For the uninitiated the Evo IX models were VIII MR (Mitsubishi Racing) specification plus MIVEC engine camshaft control. Front Bumper Face-lift and a rear diffuser, The final FQ360 MR model has the HKS tuning parts and Ecu re-map that are employed by Mitsubishi UK to up-rate the UK FQ Evo models. It’s not just the phenomenal 366bhp, 363ft/Ibs appearing at just 3,200rpm! It’s no wonder that 0-60 comes up in blistering 3.9 seconds (there are still not many hot hatches that can do that produced now) and with handling as close to a Group N Rally car you can get what more could you ask for! Very few cars hold the raw driver appeal and involvement of an Evo.

Specification on this example -
Final variant of 4G63 engine with Mivec Cam Control.
Factory HKS Intercooler, Hardpipes, Air Filter, Exhaust and ECU to make 366Bhp 
Super Active Yaw Control (SAYC) Drive Control
Super Active Centre Differential (SACD)
Face-lift Front bumper and Rear Diffuser found on the IX
17" Speedline Turini unique to the 360MR 
Bilstein Suspension twinned with Eibach Sport Springs
Brembo Performance Brakes all round
Xenon Headlights
Black Chrome Light Inserts unique to the IX
Carbon Exterior Splitter, Vortex, Spoiler Blade and Exhaust Surround unique to the 360MR
360MR by HKS unique badging
Factory Privacy Glass
IX MR Embroidered Recaro Sports Bucket Seats (£2,500 Option)
Contrast Red Stitching throughout the interior unique to the 360MR
Gloss Black Dash Inserts unique to the 360MR
Ralliart 3 Gauge Display
Climate Control with Air Con.
Electric Windows.
Electric Folding Mirrors.
Auto Lights 
Fitted Carpet Mats

This MR has a detailed extensive service history with majority of receipts:
Apr 08 - 1,232 Miles - Mitsubishi
Dec 08 - 4,041 Miles - Xtreme UK
Jun 09 - 5,992 Miles - Xtreme UK
Jun 10 - 6,795 Miles - Xtreme UK
Sept 11 - 10,171 Miles - Xtreme UK
May 12 - 11,694 Miles - C1-R Motorsport
Jun 13 - 12,756 Miles - C1-R Motorsport
Jun 14 - 14,204 Miles - C1-R Motorsport
Jun 15 - 15,026 Miles - C1-R Motorsport
2016-2020 - Dry stored due to illness
Feb 20 - 15,406 Miles - C1-R Motorsport (Recommissioning service, full fluid and cambelt)
2021 - Will have a fresh service for its new owner at C1-R Motorsport

All of our sales cars undergo an Inspection before being placed on sale, a pre-delivery workshop check is also carried out before a car leaves us for its new owner and a HPI Clear Certificate is also provided too of course.

Part Exchanges welcome too of course.

"What the Press Say"

We won’t see the like of the Evo’s breed again. WRC now exclusively features aero-honed superminis, and zero homologation specials. Meanwhile, the hot hatchback genre recovered from neglect and unfashionable joyrider connotations in the mid-Noughties and swallowed the 300bhp-plus four-door territory. They seat a family, swallow a pet, breeze the daily grind and apply well over 300bhp to the road with unthinking ease. Without forgetting our must-have smartphone connectivity.

This engine – the famous 4G63 unit that powered nine of the ten Evo generations – is an education in how thrilling a turbocharged power delivery can be. You’ll want eyes on the road when the wall of boooOOST careers into your backside and ruthlessly dropkicks the car up the road. And it’s really worth hanging on for the redline, just to experience how relentless the torrent of power becomes. And addictive. Ostensibly, there's been a decade of progress between this variant of Mitsubishi's mighty 4G63 twin-scroll turbocharged four-cylinder engine and now - but honestly, in pure performance terms, you'd hardly know it.

Quiet, of course, it isn't. Not in the running gear, and certainly not at the business end of the angry buzz emerging from the ginormous HKS exhaust either. Nor is it slow. Not by any contemporary measure. That ought to be a given for a 1400kg Evo with 363lb ft available from 3200rpm - and yet somehow its reputation hardly prepares you for the enormous, ever-escalating thrust which appears at middling revs, and barely tapers past 7000rpm.

Beyond the control surfaces and the ever-ready 4G63, it is the ACD and Super AYC doing the heavy lifting. When the steering input is small and the bend long and fast, the drivetrain does no more than is required to make the MR seem neutral and steadfast on its line. But in slower, constant radius corners, the four-wheel-drive system's dynamism isn't far short of breath-taking. Very few AWD systems created in the intervening years succeed so intuitively or adapt as spontaneously to the whim of the driver.

Ten years on and the rest of the industry might have caught up with the FQ-360's outlandish power output - not to mention the gains made in efficiency, refinement, reliability and quality - but it hasn't come close to replicating its supremely tactile limit or the built-in level of entertainment beyond. From a 2018 perspective, that's rather disheartening - as is the knowledge that the MR FQ-360 by HKS was the Evo's final high note, before the slippery slope of the X and the ignominy of cancellation thereafter.

Mitsubishi though, saved the best for last. In the final year of IX production, its UK importer announced that 200 examples would be distinguished with the MR FQ-360 by HKS badge. Within this mouthful (which was also a little too much for the boot lid) it was the MR - or Mitsubishi Racing - bit that confirmed this as the variant which wore shortened Eibach springs, lowering the car 10mm at the front and 5mm at the back onto Bilstein dampers and 17-inch Speedline Turini alloys.

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