Mitsubishi Racing Lancer

The Mitsubishi Racing Lancer, code-named MRX09, is a cross-country rally car that Mitsubishi Motors developed to compete in the 2009 Dakar Rally; the code stands for Mitsubishi Rally X-Country. It was built to the FIA's Group T1 rules around a tubular steel frame with carbon fibre bodywork. Unlike Mitsubishi's earlier cross-country rally cars, whose bodies were based on the Pajero, its bodywork resembles the Lancer Sportback. A linked Mitsubishi page describes the 2009 Dakar entry as four diesel-turbo Racing Lancers. The source article is brief, so this entry records only the car's purpose, rules class, construction and body style.