FEATURES Around the turn of the new millennium, it always felt as if preferring the Mitsubishi Lancer Evo to the Subaru Impreza was not the done thing. Even here, on this Welsh hillside, the 15 years and four generations that separate 2000's Evo VI TME and 2015's Evo X FQ-440 can be filled in easily enough with a little imagination. The TME is more commonly revered, seen by some as an "Evo VI.5", but according to chief engineer Chiaki Tsujimura in Brian Long's tome on the Evo, 'In reality the Tommi Mäkinen Edition was not our idea - it came from the sales and marketing side. [Extracted from the article]
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