Ultimate Evo X? Check out the FQ 440... I like!

[TITAN]

All covered under manufacturer warranty...Mitsubishi Australia should be paying attention... maybe without all the Big Brother Tech though.

http://www.pistonheads.com/news/default ... ryId=29692

[R4LLI4RT]

$90k

bit steep

[tencents]

The most interesting part is the amount of torque the SST can hold. I wonder what changes they've made to it?

[citris.87]

Wonder when the first FQ-440 SST Gearbox swap will happen... haha, I want that GB now :/

[Speedie]

$90k bit steep

Remember MRs when they first arrived in Oz were in the 80K range

[R4LLI4RT]

car is 7 years old
$90k is GTR cash (2nd hand GTR)

[Speedie]

Yeah but this almost a 50% increase in power covered by warranty

[El-Diablo]

The Uk cars are sold through dealers and are fully warranty compliant , the good news is is anything on those cars can be put on our cars as they are Mitsubishi approved.

[zedd82]

The Uk cars are sold through dealers and are fully warranty compliant , the good news is is anything on those cars can be put on our cars as they are Mitsubishi approved.

I don't like your chances trying to claim warranty here in Australia if you put those mods on your car. They are not Mitsubishi parts after all.

[R4LLI4RT]

mitsu in the uk will cover it not in australia, thus why no FQ's are sold in australia

i dont see spending $90k on a 7 year old car as a good move, even if its under warranty, if they did this when the cj first came out it would of been a great move.

Remember in the UK there are alot of other cars in that price range that can take an evo on.

only people that will buy this are fans, and they will probably hide them away

[El-Diablo]

if they are sold on an oem car then they are Mitsubishi approved. for the same reason if you put a standard evo x turbo and intercooler on a ralliart it should not affect your warranty.

[Zaphod]

if they are sold on an oem car then they are Mitsubishi approved. for the same reason if you put a standard evo x turbo and intercooler on a ralliart it should not affect your warranty.

It shouldn't but it will; Mitsubishi get the vehicle ADR-approved based on a particular configuration - if you then alter that configuration the ADR approval no longer applies and MMAL can simply walk away from it.

Not long ago I contacted MMAL and the service guys that supplied my car as I wanted to fit an RA turbo kit on it and both came back with a resounding "no"...


Which was a real bummer - I'm now looking at selling mine and buying an older RA (so I can keep up with the other guys...)

[zedd82]

i dont see spending $90k on a 7 year old car as a good move, even if its under warranty, if they did this when the cj first came out it would of been a great move.

A few years back there was the Evo X FQ400.

At one stage the Evo was around $120k in the UK as dealers had to buy them from Japan for retail and import them into the UK. Soon after they stopped selling the X because they were too expensive with the exchange rate against the Yen.

[sleeper]

for the same reason if you put a standard evo x turbo and intercooler on a ralliart it should not affect your warranty.

i`ll warrant putting an evo turbo on a RA will affect your warranty Rob, you`d prolly be ok with just the intercooler though

[El-Diablo]

Guys the owners manual clearly states that warranty covers Mitsubishi approved items. I'm not saying they wouldn't argue about it but you'd certainly have a case.

Modifications to cars can make them non - ADR compliant but are usually covered by local state MVR authorities and can be covered by an engineering certificate. There is a push for a standard modification guideline some of which are published.