RE: Mitsubishi Pajero Evolution: Spotted

[Pothole]

14-7 said:

At least this one hasn't got comas sporadically strewn throughout the article!

Perhaps that was done unconsciously(?)

[SonicShadow]

ShoeShop said:

The amount of people claiming 'no rust' due to a car coming from Japan seems to be very common these days. Has anyone been to Japan? Like lots of countries in the world, some people do live by the seaside. If you park a car anywhere outside for prolonged periods, salt spray will cover the entire car and guess what happens when salty sea water covers a car, week after week? I can tell you: The rust gremlins start to gobble up your car....

Its because in general their cars don't rust anywhere near as quickly, one reason for that is most prefectures do not use salt on the roads in winter.

[mariscalcus]

the_hood said:

Thanks for sharing, three times!

I posted it once; Pistonheads seems to think it worth posting 3 times; no idea why!

[JamesyBoy1975]

rastapasta said:

odessa eh?? wow. I charter ships to go there sometimes. always wondered what it was like in reality...

Cold and miserable, at least if you go in February..

[rastapasta]

JamesyBoy1975 said:

rastapasta said:

odessa eh?? wow. I charter ships to go there sometimes. always wondered what it was like in reality...

Cold and miserable, at least if you go in February..

for sure if you go when its iced over. its a pain in the hole to get a ship in there at that time of year. I guess your mate is one of the many who bring the Jap cars in via Vladivostock/Nakhodka over at the tail end of Russia.

[jesta1865]

nearly bought one of these here in NZ, 2 of us looking at the same time.

my wife thought it was ugly and wasn't convinced, by the time I'd shown her a youtube video of what it was capable of (she's a sucker for a quick and unusual car), the other guy had stuck down a deposit

still, they also had a 2007 swb Pajero exceed with fewer kms and a 3.8 v6 in black, bought that, it's more comfortable and still upsets the boy racers out here

the evolution was lovely though

I'm off to get big mudflaps fitted

Edited by jesta1865 on Friday 17th August 03:10

[Ilovejapcrap]

Rusty Gusset said:

nice pic

[rtz62]

Up until very recently there was one of these lived not far from me.
Not sure that I’d particularly want one but I’m also not sure how some people consider them poor value for money; take a look at a Defender 90 and id rather have the Mitsusushi tbh, and it won’t have the same chassis rot in the future.
Ok, it may not be as capable off road (I’ll take others words for this as I’ve never driven the Pajero on or off road) but I live on the edge of the Peak District and more LR’s around here are bought to pose in than go anywhere further than 12” from tarmac. Or so it seems.

[R400TVR]

A mate of mine had one of these in Reading a few years back. I knew about them, but is never seen one in the metal. Looks better in person than in the pics. I was surprised at how quick it, and how it could clear a sleeping policeman without slowing down at all.
For everyone who says 'I'd rather a Defender, Lightning etc' these will stand out far more than they will. And won't go wrong as often. Buy while you're still allowed something like it!

[F1GTRUeno]

It's a shame motorsports these days doesn't require homologation specials, the 80's and 90's were great for them.

[SlimJim16v]

F1GTRUeno said:

It's a shame motorsports these days doesn't require homologation specials, the 80's and 90's were great for them.

Exactly. I think it'd be good for motorsports and give us interesting cars to buy.

[soad]

Isn't it also known as Montero?

[MDL111]

Thanks to Pistonheads putting up articles on these, I think I will now finally need to buy one. Was looking for a winter car anyway (my poor other car rusting like there is no tomorrow thanks to the salt is the man-math reasoning for this making sense ....)

[ecksjay]

Used to drive these fairly regularly back in the day when importing was a bit thing. Drove them back from the docks etc and to customers and what not. Not particularly quick (when compared to lancer evos etc of the time) but still weird, wonderful and look mental. People used to gawk at it even then.

This and an Nissan X-Trail GT are my fave quirky JDM SUV's

[Escort3500]

Remarkably restrained pricing for this dealer