Author —— Kaga User: 阝東月月鸟宇
I never thought that the first evo I opened was also the end of evo - written at the beginning
Screenshot from No. 38 Car Review Center
About this time in 2016@ 38 Car Review Center released two videos about the ultimate version of evo x, when the author was just a freshman, the driver's license had just been taken for two months without covering the heat, there were only a few grocery carts that had been driven, looking at the Fox Rs and evo, these two manually blocked four-wheel drive performance cars that were DC saliva. Today, four years later, the author also experienced the protagonist in the video, recalling the feelings of others and his own yearning for the present.
The mynah asked the author: "Have you ever driven an evo before?" "Unfortunately, none of them have been driven, and the author has not even touched the 10th generation of automatics, let alone the 9th generation of the predecessors who are praised by fans." The mynah asserted: "Guarantee that all your good illusions will be shattered after the drive." Fortunately, the author's expectations for this car are relatively accurate, except that the feel of the gear shift is the same as the expected feeling in the mind, it seems that the mynah himself has unrealistic fantasies about evo.
Images are from motorrend and force gt, respectively
When you sit in the car, the first thing you feel is that the seat is quite comfortable. Due to U.S. crash safety regulations, U.S. final edition models are equipped with regular seats with side airbags. This seat looks quite plain, but it is wrapped in a fabric that feels good to the touch, and the padding is also soft and thick. Of course, the disadvantages are not nothing, its seat cushion is slightly shorter, and the sitting posture is too high, the author personally does not like it, I hope to have the opportunity to experience the recaro barrel chair plus model.
The materials used for interior workmanship are completely foolish. Compared with the small steel cannons that are now more delicate and slightly luxurious, the simple evo is really a bit old. Except for the symbolic leather wrapping on the door panels, the whole car is a very poor texture of hard plastic, with only a small amount of carbon fiber embellishments suggesting that the car is a wing god rather than a god of strange noise.
Ignition, start, the movement is much smaller than the author imagined, about the sound of the ordinary 2.0t grocery cart to change the tail section. Worried that this car is not easy to get started, the author carefully tried the clutch, did not expect to just lift two centimeters to quietly turn off. The author learned that this car was modified with a set of carbon fiber clutches, and it is said that the joint point is much lower than the original factory, but I did not expect that it was really so low and so narrow, and I was confused when I lifted it.
Fortunately, there was no second embarrassing stall, otherwise @ one punch overtaking will laugh at the author for not opening the stall after knowing. Objectively speaking, this car is not very difficult to get started, but it is also not easy. Friends who often drive old-fashioned Japanese hand gear cars may quickly adapt to this low and narrow clutch combination, and hand gear Volkswagen owners who are spoiled by the ultra-wide combination range may be...
The second reason why evo has a threshold for getting started is the low torque difference, very poor, especially poor! Even the original clutch has to give the big foot throttle to start, and the big foot here is not a little more, but similar to the strength required for the start of the steep slope of the ordinary grocery cart. The author drove less by hand, and did not dare to play too much at the beginning, but after some exploration, he found a small trick to drive the car smoothly and quickly, that is, to shoot a large throttle and other speed drops at the moment to contain the throttle and let the clutch combine.
The turbo pressure of this car is not high, but the starting pressure is very slow and late. If you drive the new era steel cannon and then open the evo, it is obvious to feel the large turbo lag and not particularly good throttle response speed. The turbine pressure of this car is very slow, the power is very late, and it takes almost more than 3,000 revolutions to step on the positive pressure. The moment the turbine pressure hits, you can feel the power soaring, but the feeling of the turbine intervention is not particularly abrupt, considering that the design age is acceptable.
The evo is a very old-fashioned car that waits until 3500 rpm to enjoy maximum torque. The author glanced at the turbine pressure gauge a few times, and the construction pressure was above 3000 rpm. Many people prefer 4g63t, the author looked through the external characteristics of the map found that it is more aggressive than 4b11t, low turn and middle section are very weak, the author cloud guessed that he did not like that driving experience.
This driving experience is very different from the Foxrs. Fox power response is excellent, there is almost no turbo lag, 2000 rpm to enjoy maximum torque (in fact, 1500 rpm is enough), low rpm slow acceleration feels quite relaxed. But the Fox torque curve is too flat, the drop is also particularly early (4500 rpm), and the feeling of pulling high rotation is as bland and boring as a home temperature Coke without steam.
By today's standards, the low turn zone of 4b11t is quite struggling, always urging the driver to give oil to the middle and high turn zone. This kind of forced to run small temper is also reflected in some other naughty small details, a gas induction brake strength immediately came up to the driver to pause, can not be very smooth and comfortable gliding; once the oil collection of the whole car will be violent resonance, continue to give oil resonance will disappear, this feeling I have only experienced on the McLaren 600lt and Mitsubishi evo. The car seemed to be screaming at the driver: "No oil!" "
The most amazing thing is that the gear lever will shake violently when the 2nd gear is oiled, mixed with the resonance of the whole car, and for a while I think that the shaking massage of the red light such as the 2.0t tianlai d gear is not a big problem. 2 gear is really a very strange evo gear, the feeling of entering the gear is different from the other four forward gears, you need to stuff it very hard (in Sichuan words, it is "playing in"), the author has twice 3 back 2 failed to plug in. Evo's shift stroke is medium to short, and the resistance to the gear is relatively large, as for the Volkswagen "suction feeling" or Subaru-style "mechanical feeling" that some fans like, I'm sorry that this car really does not.
The suspension of the evo fe amazes the author, and the comfort is really good. Its low-speed compression damping is not adjusted much, the front section is relatively soft, and pressing some small pits and small cuts is much more comfortable than the author's Eight Generations Civic. I even drove a short stretch of dirt road (which is very pulling) and the comfort was pretty good.
The author has previously said that fox rs is slightly more than bmw m2 10%-20%, evo fe and m2 are almost at the same level, and the mynah himself even feels more comfortable than m2. Putting aside the difference in body height, the overall feel of the evo fe is very similar to the Lotus evora gt410 with reinforced parts. The author was curious to get out of the car to check, and sure enough, both cars were the same bilstein suspension with Ebach springs.
The original tire width of the evo fe is 245, and the author test drove this tire that has been replaced with 265. I don't know if it is because of the change in tire width or the powerful four-wheel drive system secretly helping, the feeling of this evo entering the corner is really fantastic. I have never driven a performance car or a sports car with such an elegant and agile posture, and never driven a four-wheel drive car with such a light and obedient front. Compared to evo, Fox is a big fat man.
Whether it's sliding over a corner or pushing the big foot throttle, everything in the car is in line with the author's expectations, as if there are many scaled-down versions of themselves directing the work in the four-wheel drive system. The rear wheel wants as much as you want, the front wheel wants to leave as much as you want, this set of four-wheel drive is like the driver's ass, as if you can guess the idea of every corner, it is too good to please the owner.
But this car is not without disadvantages in driving on mountain roads. Due to the gentle initial suspension and slightly poor support, the roll control in the corner is not particularly good, and it feels a little "thrown", unlike the Foxrs who completely eat the ground to give people strong confidence. In addition, the steering feel is relatively poor, basically a reverse Fox setting. The Foxrs have almost no damping, the steering wheel is very sought-after, while the evo is almost only damped, turning the steering wheel is quite astringent, and the feeling of returning to the right is also a bit clumsy.
This car has a lot to impress, it is very good to avoid vibration, the four-wheel drive system is very advanced, and the fuel economy is also very good (only 12l/100 km). But today it is indeed an outdated product, the power is very general, the steering feel is poor, the sitting position is not suitable, and the turbine tuning is not friendly to everyday driving.
Now many performance cars are set up with a variety of mode options, such as bmw m series can adjust the steering feel, chassis, power, transmission, etc., combined together a car can have dozens of personalities. The drift mode of some small steel cannons can even set the angle of the flinging ass like the McLaren 720s. Personally, I don't like this fancy adjustment, and I opened the Audi RS4 the other day, and I have never been able to tune out a satisfactory driving formula. I would rather have the chef make a delicious dish directly than put onions, ginger and garlic on the table and tell me, "Look at it yourself." "
Evo x is like the seductive delicacy produced by the stubborn old-school chef, although the most high-end ingredients are not used, but the old chef guessed the taste of the car food, and the manual gear of the fe is a hidden hard dish that many people can't ask for. Unfortunately, today's diners have changed their tastes, and they pursue more exquisite plating and higher-end ingredients. It seems that no one cares about the soul of food and taste buds anymore, delicious and delicious in the Vibrato WeChat Little Red Book. Fox rs could have been the spiritual heritage of the Lancers, but unfortunately the rs is out of print, and no one will fry the dish of manual high-horsepower four-wheel drive anymore.
The so-called evo feelings of the author is not, Makinin's rally trip is only heard, but did not think that the first evo that the author drove was also the end of the evo, the story of the sighing lancers will not have the next chapter, sighing that there is no next such a pure driving machine, sighing that the interesting car has been choked by the throat of the country six, and can no longer breathe freely as before.