When you spend your day in a new car dealership, it’s not often you see any really different vehicles. So today, when Vijay Parany from JDM Cars arrived in a 1991 Mitsubishi Jeep, we all noticed.

Now many of you will say, as I did that Mitsubishi and Jeep have nothing to do with each other. You would be wrong. I was too.
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Responding to global concerns over traditional petroleum based fuel shortages, Mitsubishi has reworked the popular Pajero to run on gasoline, ethanol or a mixture. The new model, called the Pajero TR4 Flex will be released in Brazil next month. This is the first flex fuel 4×4 in that market. The vehicle could be a taste of what Mitsubishi plans to bring to the US market as soon as 2009. let’s hope the Pajero makes it’s way to Canada too.

Press release after the break
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When you work in the retail side of the car industry, visiting your manufacturer’s head office is sort of like Vegas. What happens there stays there. In other words, cameras aren’t usually welcome and discussions aren’t repeated. Fortunately for our readers this week, The Garage cameras were allowed to take some shots of a bit of a rare beast. Rare here in North America at least.
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This morning Mitsubishi revealed a few more details regarding a pair of new models for the Japanese home market. The Lancer we see here in North America will be rebadged as the Galant Fortis. The official name for the beastly rally sedan is the Lancer Evolution X.

They are still teasing us by not releasing performance figures for the Evo’s drivetrain. Mitsubishi has confirmed that the 2.0 MIVEC engine turn all 4 wheels through a six speed automated manual transmission.

Mitsubishi press release after the break.
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It’s good to see the new tin being pushed so soon! Japanese drift modul Taro Koki is living and working in the States these days and spent some time at Gymkhana USA last weekend. While he was there, he had Dai Yoshihara from the Rockstar/Nitto drift team put the 08 Lancer through it’s paces. Taro promises there is video to follow.

Over the past few years, I’ve been lucky enough to spend some time in some world class sports cars. I’ve been really lucky in that I’ve spent a lot of time driving the Nissan 350Z, a car so good for it’s price range that cars worth twice as much are often compared to it.

So what does this have to do with my first drive in the 2006 Eclipse GT? Well, unfortunately I’ve become pretty jaded and my expectations have been set pretty high. This isn’t a good thing for any sports car that doesn’t keep up with the class. So does the Eclipse GT measure up? Well, yes & no.
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Mitsubishi’s much anticipated Evo X concept has finally made it to the streets for some real world testing and the sharp eyed Jeremy Kupfer was there to sneak a few shots of the bra wearing test mule.

Arriving in the first quarter of 2008, the Evo looks posed to launch before it’s rival, the Subaru WRX STi, which will not be produced as an 08 model.

For the full views, be sure to visit LeftLane

At the Geneva show next month, Mitsubishi Motors will display the European market version of the Outlander on road SUV. Alongside it will be the Prototype-X concept which will be the basis for the next generation high performance 4wd sedan. That’s right, 4wd performance sedan means the next Evo.

Read the Mitsubishi press release after the break
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Years ago I remember reading a Peter Egan story about his love of the Bugeye Sprite. There was a bit in there about how much fun the little cars were to drive. You could race through an intersection at full opposite lock, at 35 mph and nobody would even notice that you were having the time of your life.

Today, Tom Ford over at Top Gear is telling the same tale:
Now I’ve come to the conclusion that I actually really get off on strange little cars that require more driver input.
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Regular readers of The Garage are going to think I’ve lost my mind. I’ve moved around so much since we created this little project that it has to confuse folks. Let’s see. Within the last 18 months there has been Nissan, Mazda, Nissan again, Infiniti and now….Mitsubishi.
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