The Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution is one of our favorite ... to go fast in a practical four-door. You need an Evo. Maybe not this 2006 Evo IX MR, though. It's going to sell for six figures because ...

NAYOGA, JAPAN There are winners and losers in every industry, and at the moment, Mitsubishi Motors Corporation is very much one of the latter. Worldwide sales have plunged, the carmaker is ...

And after just one lap, you understand why the 2006 Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution IX leaps out of corners, doesn't bottom out when you jump it, and flicks so controllably through a chicane.

For 2006, the Lancer Evolution's generational odometer rolls over from the current Evo VIII, on sale since 2003, to the Evo IX. Accordingly, this rigid, noisy, spartan, all-wheel-drive son-of-a ...