08 Lancer Is Here!

[Jeffylou87]

It's here in our showroom now!! You should definitely stop by your nearest Mitsu dealer and check em out.. We just got em yesterday!

[shortdogg2k05]

Yeah we got them here on Monday. The dealer called me and want me to setup a test drive.

[G-spot]

My dealer hasn't called me yet :(

[polishmafia]

i saw one on saturday at my local dealership (they only got one at the time). i love the interior after being able to see it in person.

[Jeffylou87]

haha we have like ten 8) 8) 8)

[furiousgtz]

i saw one on the road sliver... I think it was yesterday
probably someone test driving that car
looks real small I guess because it was base model.

[shortdogg2k05]

G-spot lets go up there together. I was told there is a black on black GTS there.

[Jeffylou87]

We have a black on black GTS too.. we have a blue one and a grey one too both GTS (blue with navi)... We have a white, red, silver ES... no DE's cause they're useless.. No A/C? come on what was mitsu thinking.. at least not around this area.. better for southerners...

[anticon]

yeah i saw one at the dealer last week when i went to get my keyless remote. being in there and also seeing a bad black MR is what got me started on my recent evo kick. As for the lancer, they are pretty nice and have a good stance. The pictures in the mags pretty much speak for them IMO

[Jeffylou87]

The black MR had to be an SE.. Cause regular MR's don't come in black..

[devgrp]

No AC? WTF Do they still make cars without AC? That shit should be mandatory

[mapid145]

WTF.. they still dont have them at my dealership.. damn man.. im gonna go on friday and ask them more about it.. maybe they have one in the showroom.. but i didnt see anyting on the lots

[Jeffylou87]

What's ur dealership Mapid?

[mapid145]

allstar mitsu.. sayreville

[Gladiator]

the front end looks hot as hell!
too bad the engine is kinda weak

[9G]

the front end looks hot as hell!
too bad the engine is kinda weak

Engine is kinda weak? WTF?

[Jet Black]

the front end looks hot as hell!
too bad the engine is kinda weak

Engine is kinda weak? WTF?

Sure is! The car itself is unbelievably sexy. I actually like it more than the Evo X, as far as looks are concerned.

[Jeffylou87]

You have to drive it before you can say it's slow...

[Jet Black]

You have to drive it before you can say it's slow...

I meant in terms of performance potential.

[Reelax]

they have a few at miller mitsubishi (van nuys). saw them as a drove home a few nights ago.

[9G]

You have to drive it before you can say it's slow...

I meant in terms of performance potential.

same engine as the next evo right? so when evo x peeps upgrade, the regular lancers will take it. Si?

[Jet Black]

[quote=Jeffylou87]You have to drive it before you can say it's slow...

I meant in terms of performance potential.

same engine as the next evo right? so when evo x peeps upgrade, the regular lancers will take it. Si?[/quote

Sorta. It shares a lot of parts with the Evo engine. But the sticking point is that it's a high compression NA motor.

[anticon]

The black MR had to be an SE.. Cause regular MR's don't come in black..
odd... maybe just an MR badge. or a paint job. def was black with red MR badge. anyways...

[Bezzle]

saw a few at ur dealership jeffylou. and ive only seen one at the dealer on rt 46 totowa.

[manybrews]

we've got about a dozen.

very nice cars.

[cdipier2]

i saw about 4 or 5 on the dealer lot going down route 9 south in manalapan/freehold. i dont know the name of it but its right next to the lincoln/mercury/mazda dealership

[Jeffylou87]

Pretty sure it's Freehold Mitsubishi..

[Jeffylou87]

The black MR had to be an SE.. Cause regular MR's don't come in black..
odd... maybe just an MR badge. or a paint job. def was black with red MR badge. anyways...

Well... what I meant was.. Regular MR's don't come in black... It must have been an MR SE.. Has the MR badge but no SE badge.. Would say it on the window sticker..

[cdipier2]

yep went past it today and its freehold mitsubishi

[solofantasy]

You have to drive it before you can say it's slow...

I meant in terms of performance potential.


Slow... are youn kidding that new hot babe does 0 to 60 in 7.7sec.
The new lancer beats anyone in its class! and we are not even talking about the handling and suspensions yet!

but i did expect GTS to be more powerful, maybe they should have used the same engine as the new outlander. GTS suppose to be ralliart right?

[Jeffylou87]

Nahh they all have the same engine... The new Outlander is a V6... The GTS just has more options.. They have the same suspension set up as the new Evo X... That should tell you something about the handling...

[furiousgtz]

new lancer has great reviews..
i dont no about music server you can only rip cds and put songs on the 30gb harddrive? why cant you just take the harddrive to PC connect with usb and transfer songs like ipod

[Jeffylou87]

They should have made it a removable HDD.. But they didn't.. Something to write Mitsu about... It's a neat feature though.. It also plays MP3 format CD's too..

[Jeffylou87]

saw a few at ur dealership jeffylou. and ive only seen one at the dealer on rt 46 totowa.

That's cause we own 46... not own as in business own, but own as in ownage... We're the best selling Mitsu dealer in the Tri-State biatch! We have the most inventory and we sell the most cars..

[AVERAGE]

They should have made it a removable HDD.. But they didn't.. Something to write Mitsu about... It's a neat feature though.. It also plays MP3 format CD's too.. Sounds like they will be making a special cable or something available exclusivly through the dealership. Talk about a marketing ploy :roll: Still a sweet car,though...

[Jeffylou87]

Yeah that special cable.. They tried that with the 4G Eclipse.. and they didn't sell many of them... IDK why they didn't learn their lesson... Although the GTS with the navigation package has the aux. in the front...

[mitsufan]

On the new Lancer (just had a class on it) you better make sure to change your oil on time or it will knock on ya big time. And the auto tranny, anything other than the "green" tranny fuild you will get oh 15 miles down the road and then get ready to get a whole new assembly (if one part goes out in it, you gotta buy a whole new tranny)you can only use head bolts ONCE and the motor is all aluminum plus it has a timing chain not a belt. Just FYI. But damn, we are selling the crap outta the new Lancers and the body style is hoooooooootttttttttttttt :D. We got 2 trucks full of them last week.

[seth98esT]

Head bolts in any motor can only be used once ;)

[mitsufan]

LOL they made sure we knew this on this motor. 8)

[Khobin]

You have to drive it before you can say it's slow...

I meant in terms of performance potential.


Slow... are youn kidding that new hot babe does 0 to 60 in 7.7sec.
The new lancer beats anyone in its class! and we are not even talking about the handling and suspensions yet!

but i did expect GTS to be more powerful, maybe they should have used the same engine as the new outlander. GTS suppose to be ralliart right?

It is "relatively" slow...as in versus the last top end lancer (the ralliart, not the EVO) The RA's were rated for low 15's i nthe 1/4, the GTS is 16's...

And it doesn't beat everything in it's class...at least not according to a Car and Driver article I just read like last week.
http://www.caranddriver.com/features/12843/the-quickest-cars-of-2007-less-than-20000.html
Most of the 10 cars are from it's class, and the only one it "beat" is the Imprezza 2.5i

Don't get me wrong, it's still a quick car, but in terms of what it replaced, it is step down...at least in terms of performance.

[bluediamonds]

I was looking for any info on the new ralliart and all that they say is that there was spy photos and that its supposed to be turboed with all wheel drive, supposed to compete with the wrx

http://www.motortrend.com/future/spied_vehicles/112_0610_2008_mitsubishi_lancer_ralliart/

[milo111000]

i don't think they were in the same classes.. would you say a lancer and a mustang would be on the same class???? also altimas and accords.. daym..

[Khobin]

The lancer, Imprezza, Cobalt, G5, TC, 3, and Civic are all the same class.

The Mustang and the Tiburon are somewhat comparable, being smaller, sportier, "tuner" type cars.

and well the Altima and Accord are a different class...that's why I said "most of the 10 cars..." :wink:

[Jeffylou87]

On the new Lancer (just had a class on it) you better make sure to change your oil on time or it will knock on ya big time. And the auto tranny, anything other than the "green" tranny fuild you will get oh 15 miles down the road and then get ready to get a whole new assembly (if one part goes out in it, you gotta buy a whole new tranny)you can only use head bolts ONCE and the motor is all aluminum plus it has a timing chain not a belt. Just FYI. But damn, we are selling the crap outta the new Lancers and the body style is hoooooooootttttttttttttt :D. We got 2 trucks full of them last week.

Yeah.. I was told that the tranny is sealed.. There's no getting into it... and yes the timing chain.. finally mitsu stepped up with that..

[XxGiRLaNT06xX]

Alot of great info on the car... I went to check it out 2 days ago and it i love the look of it but now im not so sure about getting one. Maybe just stick with the Galant Ralliart? It'll cost me more but im at least familiar with the G...