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.

What We Know So Far

*UPDATED: see post below*�

While none of this is final till the car is revealed at Tokyo, here’s what is known/​expected so far for the rebirth of the iconic Nis­san hero car.

Engine/​Drivetrain:

• Des­ig­na­tion VR38VETT, Twin Turbo, 3.8L V6
• Vari­able Valve Event Lift (VVEL)
• Esti­mated 480+HP, maybe as high as 550HP
• Forged inter­nals throughout
• ATTESSA All Wheel Drive, pos­si­bly tuned for more rear-​​wheel bias on higher-​​spec models.

Dimen­sions, Weight, Chassis:

• Des­ig­nated CBA-​​R35 (Inter­est­ing that this is des­ig­nated R35, when effec­tively it is not the R35/​V35 proto chas­sis but a new chassis)
• Total weight around 3500lbs or 1570kg
• Weight dis­tri­b­u­tion centralized
• Length: ~4,650mm (183 inches)
• Wheel­base: ~ 2,800 mm (110 inches)
• Width: ~1,350mm (53 inches).

Mod­els:

• Expected to come in at least three mod­els. Stan­dard, Black Edi­tion and Pre­mium. There has been men­tion of V-​​Spec and EVO des­ig­na­tions; whether these are sub des­ig­na­tions to Stan­dard, Black Edi­tion or Pre­mium are unknown — they may be bona fide mod­els on their own.

Exte­rior:

• Six col­ors
  • Tita­nium Gray
  • Dark Metal Blue
  • Super Black
  • Vibrant Red
  • Ulti­mate Metal Sil­ver (addi­tional cost)
  • White Pearl (addi­tional cost)
• Rays forged wheels, prob­a­bly 18 inches. Upgraded gun­metal Rays wheels will be avail­able on the base model, and stan­dard on Black and Pre­mium models

Inte­rior:

• Two colours, either Black or Grey. Only Black is avail­able in the Black Edition.
• All three mod­els have SRS cur­tain and side airbags as options (One would expect these would be stan­dard and may still be stan­dard come Tokyo)
• Bose sound optional on Base and Black Edi­tion, stan­dard on Pre­mium (sim­i­lar to V35 coupes)
• Anti-​​theft sys­tems also optional on Base and Black, stan­dard on Pre­mium (Again we’d expect anti-​​theft to become stan­dard on a ~8million yen supercar)
• Lash­ings of light weight (and prob­a­bly expen­sive) mate­ri­als, such as mag­ne­sium alloy, car­bon fibre and tita­nium inside and out.

Notes:

No com­pre­hen­sive details are avail­able yet on dri­ve­train, trans­mis­sion, tur­bocharger con­fig­u­ra­tion and man­u­fac­turer, exhaust, sus­pen­sion, brak­ing and aero­dy­namic con­fig­u­ra­tions, though given the nature of the car, we’d expect large Brembo’s front and back, pos­si­bly a new high-​​strength DSG pad­dleshift auto and 6 speed man­ual trans­mis­sions and at least a light-​​weight stain­less steel high-​​flow dual exhaust.

There has been talk of dif­fer­ent brakes for dif­fer­ent mod­els — 4 pis­ton, 6 pis­ton and high-​​strength carbon-​​ceramic have been men­tioned on hypo­thet­i­cal base, V-​​Spec and EVO mod­els respec­tively — though it seems unlikely given the same engine con­fig­u­ra­tion is expected for all mod­els. It’s wise to note here that rumors sur­round­ing power vary wildly, it may be that the VR38VETT will be tuned for greater pow­ers across the range and war­rant dif­fer­ent brak­ing and sus­pen­sions set ups for each model. Time will tell

UPDATES:CarAd­vice have added the fol­low­ing information :

• NO MANUAL OPTION! Instead Nis­san are opt­ing for a 7 speed flappy paddle…
• Tita­nium muffler
• Side airbags optional on all 3 mod­els (Sur­pris­ingly not standard)
• Plat­inum comes with a heated seat, Thatcham class immo­biliser and alarm
• The Ulti­mate Metal Sil­ver colour attracts a 300,000 yen pre­mium, Pearl White attract­ing a 30,000 yen premium
• RE070 run flats on black and platinum
• UPDATED PRICING (tax incl):� Base — 7,770,000 yen, Black edi­tion — 7,927,500 yen , Pre­mium: 8,347,500 yen

We’ll post more as infor­ma­tion becomes available.

Tech­ni­cally this is noth­ing new, but Nis­san has announced a sys­tem that brakes by itself, another step towards a com­pletely auto­matic (and totally bor­ing) dri­ving expe­ri­ence. In fact, the sys­tem is really a brak­ing and accel­er­a­tor con­trol system.

The sys­tem uses a com­puter and radar to tell when it’s draw­ing too close to some­thing in front of the vehi­cle. When this occurs the car will lift the accel­er­a­tor, alert­ing the dri­ver, and if the dri­ver acknowl­edges and takes his foot from the accel­er­a­tor, the car will apply the brakes and stop the car com­pletely. Of course if the dri­ver doesn’t acknowl­edge, the car con­tin­ues on it’s merry way. Inter­est­ingly, Nis­san also announced a alco­hol sens­ing sys­tem� — per­haps these two sys­tems chain together as part of Nis­sans’ over­all safety strat­egy — because we doubt a surly drunk is going to agree to the cars prod­ding to slow down. Per­haps the sys­tem should over­ride an ine­bri­ated dri­ver, or like in the Nis­san con­cept Fuga, stop dri­ving com­pletely for an under the influ­ence driver.

[Source: Auto­blog]