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New EVO 7, looks different but performs better?

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84 Japanese icons reborn: new Evo X & new Skyline GT-R

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BE AFRAID…BE VERY AFRAID

The all-new Nissan Skyline GT-R and Mitsubishi Evo X promise to be devastatingly good

THEY ARE SUPERCAR LEGENDS, Japanese icons – and from 2007 they will be reborn. The 2005 Tokyo motor show heralded the first glimpse of Mitsubishi’s Lancer Evolution X and Nissan’s all-new Skyline GT-R.

Mitsubishi labelled its car the Concept-X, Nissan’s went by the name GT-R Proto. Ignore the nothing-to-see-here Japanese coyness of the official line – both cars will be smoking rubber two years from now, little changed from the menacing pair pictured on these pages.

Simultaneously, the Evo and GT-R have discovered style. Pumped-up bodywork punctured with vents, mean-eyed headlamps, sweeping rooflines – the Japanese have recaptured the flair that created supercars like Honda’s departing NSX and Toyota’s long-gone Supra.

The Evo X and GT-R are blood brothers. Born out of motorsport, with high revving turbo engines for blistering acceleration and trick four-wheel drive systems that dismiss sweepers with contemptuous ease. But they are also bitter rivals, the snarling flagship sports cars of two Japanese brands overshadowed by Toyota and Honda.

At Tokyo, they swept their brands into the spotlight. And gave notice to fans of performance cars worldwide that 2007 will be a very special year.

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MITSUBISHI EVO X

FUNCTION. FUNCTIONAL. Functionality. Listen to the tape of our 40-minute conversation with Omer Halilhodzic and you’ll hear variations on the f-word 80 times. It’s exactly what you want to hear from the designer tasked with redesigning the ultimate anti-design car. The look of the current Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution has nothing whatsoever to do with latte-sipping men in black rollnecks and everything to do with dirty-handed blokes in overalls.

It started as a porridge, three-box Japanese saloon with a wing and got progressively more steroidal as its power multiplied. The Evo has always been as ugly as it is fast, but like a broken nose or cauliflower ear its deformities have always signalled its intentions and been part of its appeal.(QUOTE)