Mitsubishi Lancer WRC

The Mitsubishi Lancer WRC is a World Rally Car built by Ralliart, Mitsubishi Motors' motorsport division, to compete in the World Rally Championship, where the earlier Lancer Evolution series had been limited by its Group A homologation. The Evolution WRC debuted at the 2001 Rallye Sanremo on the eighth-generation Cedia body, with a 1,996 cc 4G63 engine making 300 PS and a drivetrain that new drivers found hard to use after Tommi Makinen left. The Step2 or WRC2 arrived at Rally Finland in 2002 with a six-speed sequential gearbox and active differentials, and Mitsubishi left the series at the end of 2002. It returned in 2004 with the WRC04, which had over 6,000 changes, and in 2005 with the wider WRC05, before Ralliart UK ran privateer and semi-works cars in 2006 and 2007, including a developed WRC07 that was 0.5 seconds per kilometre faster than the WRC05.