# @threepiece.us on Instagram

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- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/DcBRb2bDDgn
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/69049659-threepieceus-instagram
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- **Posted:** 2026-08-14T12:05:23.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** threepieceus (@threepiece.us) — https://gondola.cc/threepiece.us

## Caption

Every new rally-bred hot sedan tries to recapture what Mitsubishi nailed in 2006 — and none of them do. The Evo IX hit different because it was the last version before electronics started doing the thinking for you. Raw 4G63 turbo motor, real mechanical center diff, a chassis that actually communicated. You could push 450 wheel on stock internals and daily it Monday morning. That's not nostalgia talking, that's engineering that modern turbo fours still benchmark against.

But here's the thing — clean IXs are evaporating. Every month there are fewer stock or tastefully built examples, and the prices reflect it. So the real question is: do you buy one now at today's money knowing it'll never be cheaper, or do you hold out hoping the market corrects on a car they literally stopped making almost twenty years ago? One side says the bubble has to pop eventually. The other side remembers saying the same thing about Supras at $60K.

Save this for the day the hunt gets serious.

#ThreePieceUS #EvoIX #4G63 #Evo9 #Mitsubishi #JDM #WheelFitment #RallyLife #BoostLife #SportsCarBuying #BuildNotBought

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## Tags

mitsubishi, wheelfitment, jdm, rallylife, evoix, evo9, buildnotbought, boostlife, sportscarbuying, 4g63, threepieceus

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