This 'Brand New' 11-Year-Old Mitsubishi Evo IX Is Somehow Attracting Six-Figure Bids

It's so new that it's never actually been sold at all and the seats are still covered with the factory-applied covers, but we still can't understand how this 2006 Evo IX MR can be worth over $100,000
This 'Brand New' 11-Year-Old Mitsubishi Evo IX Is Somehow Attracting Six-Figure Bids

We don’t know quite how to break this to you, good CTzens, but the six-figure Mitsubishi Evo has happened.

We’ve spotted a 2006 Evo IX on eBay in the US that’s as new as new gets. In fact, it’s so new that it has never actually been sold. The seller, a Mitsubishi dealer in California, apparently ordered a bunch of Evo models over time and has only been selling them when the prices have climbed higher than list.

This 'Brand New' 11-Year-Old Mitsubishi Evo IX Is Somehow Attracting Six-Figure Bids

There’s higher than list, and then there’s ‘over $100,000’. We’re stunned. How can it be worth that? Mileage is one clue: it has covered just nine miles since the days when it would have cost a customer $37,094 courtesy of some optional extras. It’s a Graphite Grey MR model, so it has Bilstein monotube dampers, a six-speed manual gearbox, split seven-spoke forged BBS wheels, extra brake cooling ducts and a few other trinkets, but it’s not even a model that you’d picture as one of the most sought-after.

A dealer in Brooklyn, for comparison, is selling chassis #0001 of the 1600-car Lancer Evolution Final Edition run for $87,888 – also completely brand new. With bidding on this 2006 car already nudging $108,000 at the time of writing, we can only assume that the world has gone completely bonkers. And for another thing, when you’re selling a high-value car, why don’t you take better pictures?!

This 'Brand New' 11-Year-Old Mitsubishi Evo IX Is Somehow Attracting Six-Figure Bids

With 286bhp on tap and insanely effective all-wheel drive it will hit 62mph from a standstill in 4.4 seconds. Our favourite thing about this car is the surface/driving mode indication inside the large, central rev-counter in the instrument cluster. You can select Tarmac, Gravel and Snow modes, and you know it really is engineered to monster every one of those surfaces.

Bidding is set to end on Tuesday, and you can bet we’ll bring you the final price. It’s already way beyond that of a brand new Dodge Challenge SRT Demon, for a slice of context. It’s such a shame this car has never been enjoyed the way it was meant to be. You can bet that the high-bidders aren’t exactly intending to take it to their nearest rally stage, either. Ah well.

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Comments

☆★THEBOOSTEDBRIT★☆

Matt Kimberley, *checks human kidney prices, still can’t afford it

07/21/2017 - 09:29 |
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I bet a heart would do it

We can live without it, no ?

07/21/2017 - 10:35 |
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Craig Fresh

Quiet normal in austria any kind of cool car is more expensive without deserving it, people even think their car has more value because it runs and doesnt have any kind of issue.
So a normal car that drives and breaks justifies a higher price just because it runs, thats kinda stupid

07/21/2017 - 09:29 |
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☆★THEBOOSTEDBRIT★☆

In reply to by Craig Fresh

Agreed

07/21/2017 - 10:04 |
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Wait - how much more expensive are we talking? If its roughly the cost of parts to replace, plus labour and a bit on top for inconvenience.. that’s just capitalism / free market surely?

07/21/2017 - 14:54 |
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Akashneel

Evolution is a brillaint automobile but it is a very ridiculous price for a 11-year old one.

07/21/2017 - 10:05 |
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I agree.

07/21/2017 - 16:29 |
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Anonymous

The Evo IX was and still is a phenomenal car, but unfortunately that’s not enough to justify the $100,000 price tag. I’d still buy it if I had the money however…

07/21/2017 - 10:08 |
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Bring a Caterham To MARS

In reply to by Anonymous (not verified)

Clarkson famously brought it against a Murcielago and went as quick if not quicker on track.
But when Murcielagos don’t go for that lower a price…

07/21/2017 - 10:57 |
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Anonymous

Amazing. An unaffordable Evo

07/21/2017 - 11:18 |
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Evoist

I
NEED
IT

07/21/2017 - 11:32 |
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Anton 3

The buyer better drives it or the whole car enthusiast world will be mad at him or her.

07/21/2017 - 12:03 |
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Adrian T. R.

In reply to by Anton 3

Why would you buy a brand new, old car to drive it? That completely ruins everything that’s special with it, the milage

07/21/2017 - 12:51 |
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Anonymous

Even though I’m a Evo fanboy, I wouldn’t pay that much for one.

07/21/2017 - 13:11 |
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Anonymous

i would literally kill to get this Evo.

07/21/2017 - 16:24 |
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Anonymous

Interesting.

07/21/2017 - 17:08 |
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