The new Evo­lu­tion X has been made offi­cial in a new press release from Mit­subishi, with cars hit­ting deal­ers in Japan today, Octo­ber 1st, 2007.

Here’s a quick run­down of the juici­est fea­tures on the new Evo­lu­tion X

• Engine
  • New, com­pletely redesigned alu­minium block ‘4B11’ 16-​​valve, 2.0L DOHC MIVEC inter­cooled tur­bocharged engine — 12kg lighter than the out­go­ing 4G63.
  • Power: 295HP, Torque: 422 Nm @ 3500rpm (300 lb-​​ft)
• Two trim lev­els: RS, GSR.

• Trans­mis­sions:
  • Twin Clutch SST 6-​​speed auto­mated man­ual on the GSR or
  • 5 speed man­ual also avail­able on the GSR
  • 5 speed man­ual on the RS only (No SST)

• 4WD S-​​AWC (Super All Wheel Con­trol) on the GSR
  • ACD (Active Cen­ter Differential)
  • AYC (Active Yaw Control)
  • Sport ABS (Sport Anti-​​lock Brake System)
  • Active Sta­bil­ity Con­trol (ASC)
• Suspension/​ Tyre /​ Brakes
  • MacPher­son strut front and multi-​​link rear suspension
  • (GSR) 18-​​inch Enkei 12-​​spoke high-​​rigidity cast alloy wheels. 18-​​inch BBS light­weight alloy wheels are also avail­able as a factory-​​fitted option
  • GSR comes stan­dard with Brembo 18-​​inch front and 17-​​inch rear ven­ti­lated disc brakes. (Unsure if this is a mis­take. Though that’s what’s stated on the PR! — ED )
  • Bil­stein sin­gle tube shock absorbers and Eibach coil springs

• Inte­rior
  • Pre­mium Rock­ford Fos­gate audio, factory-​​fitted MMCS option with 30Gb hard disk drive audio/​navigation sys­tem and 7-​​inch LCD screen on the GSR.
  • Recaro seats
  • Var­i­ous inte­rior upgrade option pack­ages, includ­ing leather
  • High con­trast instru­ment cluster
  • Leather wrapped steer­ing with audio controls
• Pric­ing:
  • GSR: 3,750,600 yen with 6speed Twin Clutch SST
  • GSR: 3,495,450 yen 5 speed M/​T
  • RS: 2,997,750 yen with 5 speed

And of course, required read­ing — the Press Release itself . This car has tonnes more fea­tures, admit­tedly more than we expected. The Impreza WRX STi has a bat­tle ahead of it with the new Evo.

The Kiza­shi appeared at Frank­furt not long ago, and hot on it’s heels comes the Kiza­shi 2, which looks to be either a crossover or soft roader.

�Kiza­shi 2.0

The car appar­ently drops the 2.0L 4cyl TDi expected in the Kiza­shi 1.0. Instead Kiza­shi 2.0 gets a 3.6L GM V6 and 6 speed auto­matic, and may or may not be a hybrid vehi­cle. It’s unknown at this point wether the Kiza­shi 2.0 would sport the AWD sys­tem slated for the Kiza­shi 1.0 concept.

It’s also unknown why the two dis­parate vehi­cle con­cepts hold the same name in the first place. It may sim­ply be a ‘style name’ rather than actual vehi­cle name.

[Source:� Car­a­disiac]

Bored, a good writer or artist, want to get in on Mazda’s ZOOM ZOOM style, and want to win a prize?

Well here’s just the thing! Mazda have announced (on face­book at least) a design com­pe­ti­tion for all who are inter­ested in� win­ning a trip to the L.A Autoshow in Novem­ber. Enter the MAZDA Design Chal­lenge to win:

• �All expenses paid trip to L.A
• $1000 spend­ing money
• A Mazda 3 for the week of the show (Doesn’t appear you get to keep it. Awww!)

All you need to do is write 150 words or less on what you expect 3 of 2018 will look like — and yes, you can send in a sketch. But you bet­ter get mov­ing, sub­mis­sion ends Octo­ber 12, 2007! Hit face­book for the com­pe­ti­tion group.

Note: The com­pe­ti­tion is open to US cit­i­zens only. Bugger.

[Source: Grand­JDM]

Com­pli­ance for the 2002+ ST246W (Gen 3) Cal­d­ina Sports wagon has just become avail­able in Aus­tralia, a few short months after the sec­ond gen­er­a­tion became avail­able in August this year. The ST246W runs the same 3S-​​GTE 2.0L 4 cylin­der DOHC turbo and 4WD plat­form as the pre­vi­ous generation.

Pres­tige Motor­sports prices for the Cal­d­ina start at AU$20,000 for a 02/​03 model with ~60,000kms. The 2006/​2007 will set you back around $30,000. Con­sid­er­able value for money for this great turbo fam­ily wagon.

[Source: Pres­tige Motor­sport]

Sub­aru con­tin­ues to whet enthu­si­ast appetites with dark, moody shots of the new STi.

Although not imme­di­ately clear in the pics, it seems the STi is going to be designed to stand apart from it’s WRX base with a more mas­cu­line, bulked up appear­ance, with bulging mus­cu­lar fend­ers, quad tips, a roof wing, and pos­si­bly black ver­sions of the clear tail lights, though it’s hard to tell. It seems Sub­aru have lis­tened to STi own­ers clas­si­cally com­plain­ing about the STi look­ing too sim­i­lar to the ‘stan­dard’ WRX (Though we’re sure some fans must be wish­ing Sub­aru had lis­tened on over­all styling, period.).

2008 Sub­aru Impreza WRX STi. These photo’s have been brightened

The STi will be revealed on the 24th of Octo­ber at the Tokyo Motor Show (write it in your diaries or some­thing, Scooby fans!)