# @fitmentindustries on Instagram

- **Type:** Video
- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/DWKc5d1iWYf
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/60902397-fitmentindustries-instagram
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- **Posted:** 2026-03-21T22:31:07.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Fitment Industries (@fitmentindustries) — https://gondola.cc/fitmentindustries

## Caption

The Evo VI is the most important Mitsubishi ever built and it's not even close.

To understand why the Evo VI matters you have to understand the era it came from. The late 90s, Group A, World Rally Championship was a battlefield. Subaru, Toyota, and Mitsubishi were throwing everything they had at each other on stages across the world, and the cars that came out of that war were some of the most focused and ferocious machines ever built for the road. The Evo VI was Mitsubishi's ultimate weapon during that period and it showed in every single detail.

Under the hood sat a 2.0L turbocharged 4G63 producing around 280hp in stock form, but the real magic was in the chassis and all wheel drive system that had been refined through five previous generations of motorsport development. This wasn't a car built in a boardroom, it was built publicly on the race course in Finland, Kenya, and Great Britain and the road car was the direct result of everything Mitsubishi learned out there.

Then there's Tommi Makinen. The flying Finn won four consecutive WRC drivers championships from 1996 to 1999 behind the wheel of Mitsubishi's rally cars and his impact on the Evo story cannot be overstated. Mitsubishi honored that legacy by releasing the Tommi Makinen Edition of the Evo VI. It was a factory tuned variant with a bigger turbo, Bilstein suspension, and Recaro seats straight from the factory. It was a road car built as a direct tribute to one of the greatest rally drivers who ever lived and it remains one of the most collectible Japanese performance cars on the planet.

The Evo VI represents the peak of an era that will never come back. Pure mechanical performance, rally bred engineering, and a connection to one of motorsport's greatest champions all wrapped up in a humble looking sedan from Mitsubishi.

There will never be anything quite like it again.

Would you own an Evo VI if you had the chance? Drop it in the comments 👇

#fitmentindustries #carparts #evo #evo6 #mitsubishievo

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mitsubishievo, carparts, evo, fitmentindustries, evo6

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