Road Test

Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution VIII

Test date 09 April 2003  Price as tested £26,999

Replacing an icon is never easy. Like a band tasked with bettering its definitive album, a car-maker looking to build a successor to an automotive legend faces a real quandary. Make the new boy too different and you risk alienating existing fans; too similar and you’ll be accused of not trying hard enough, not to mention risking losing your competitive edge.

Mazda pulled it off with the Mk2 MX-5 and Ford boffins are doubtless fretting over the finer points of the next Focus, but car nuts are really hoping for special things from Mitsubishi’s new Evo VIII, not least because it’s likely to be the last in the series to be based on the Lancer saloon.

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