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Evo IX is a balanced car, X is the heaviest Mitsubishi car after GTO
and both of them are good in battles

Hehe, you're right, its a battle monster when you can handle it <3

i dun see a GTO around here. How is it like in battles??

A massive brick...

@busyyuu: is it really that upgraded?

I think so. I casually did a few noob battles previously, but the other day I busted it out against some regulars (and angel ^^;) for the first time in a while.

Besides now being drivable, it's ability to control space is still present and devestating. I don't make too many concentrated efforts to ram, since with the R33, it's heavy enough so that a lot of people tend to go overboard on the ramming (since it doesn't move much) and post themselves. The GTO takes this to the extreme. While it has regressed to pre-DX levels of handling (which is totally workable now, as in getting gently tapped by an R2 doesn't send you careening into the barrier like it did in DX @@;), the ridiculous weight is still present and now generally counteracts any ramming. It is also absurdly effective in battle. I didn't even have to ride people into the wall. I tapped Angel in one of the wide Osaka turns (first turn on the right from the start) and he went flying into the wall on his own. It's that great. :D

I think overall, the big change was that the huge weight is actually controllable now. Previously, it just threw you haphazardly at anything your car was moving towards. Now, it's a hundred times more responsive. It could just be my setup for all I know (I haven't changed since I transferred), but I'm loving it regardless. ^^

Massive Brick..Nice way of puttin it. hahas so its more of a tank thn a all rounder car? or the other way round??

Still a tank, because not as responsive/nimble as evos... 2/3/4 gear suck on accel compared to evo's... but 5/6 gear power is crazy!

disadvaantage on the wangan line i suppose?

Obby put it right. It's at the far end of the weight spectrum. Great high gear accel (average low gear), very solid and stable (I think this is the key word for this car ^^) weight, and below average handling. Definitely not an all-rounder, but if you're used to heavy cars, working with the slide and handling is generally not too much of an issue.

I don't know if the lower gears are worse than an Evo though... certainly not fantastic, but they're nothing to sneeze at too. Then again, I don't drive Evos... ^^;

one more thing about the GTO

I observed it has terrible loss of speed in turns when compared to other cars, so when driving this car you should steer as little as possible and work the gears a bit........

but god it is fun to drive....

That's every big car, dude. :P

Welcome to driving heavyweights...

GTO. eh hmm might try it out.

What's w/ the new fascination w/ the GTO?

This post has been edited by raven111 on Aug 17 2010, 08:55 PM

I'm starting a bandwagon. :3

I kid, I kid~ It's just that it was an epically bad car in DX. It was basically so heavy that you had to fight it with every single turn to get it to do what you want. You could get it to go like that after a fashion, but it's composition was worse than glass. On turns, even the most minor taps from any car (didn't even have to be a heavyweight) sent you careening into the wall because the weight was so stupidly unbalanced. It was so fragile that it was ridiculous and utterly unplayable in battle. This has since been fixed, returning it to its pre-DX stability. So now it's still really heavy, but it's not a pinball in turns, instead resisting rams quite well. Thus, in its present state, it is a super heavy, quite slidely (but controllable now), very fast car, which works quite well in battles.

Or just that you play too much with the heavyweights...

@raven111: i guess its one of the neglected cars in the mitsubishi series?

Well, true...
Starting the list from the bottom-up for around here, it'd be:

GTO>Evo3>Evo6>Evo5>Evo8>EvoX>Evo9

@busyyuu: Fragile? The GTO? Something don't sound right about that. Big car like that'd be tank material -- which don't go with "FRAGILE".

I think...

For around the world... it would be

GTO > Evo 5 > Evo 6 > Evo X > Evo 3 > Evo 8 > Evo 9

@GTO: he doesn't mean fragile as in it will snap in two pieces if you let it stand in normal air... He means it in a way that you have to be delicate with it or it will bite your head off because there is no room for mistakes... It is tank material, but it was so unbalanced in dx... that no one really wanted to drive it... Everyone was still whoring the E9 like no tomorrow... and still are...

GTO > Evo 5 > Evo 6 > Evo X > Evo 3 > Evo 9 > Evo 8

LOL more 8s thn 9 i noticed. and @ Busyuu Not FRAGILE. A MASSIVE BRICK!

This is because evo 9 is still probably whored around the whole world because of its godliness in dx and still godly in dx+...

Bricks can be fragile when hit in the right spot...

what is the reason the Enkei WRC Tarmac 5-Spokes are used commonly on Evo VIII's? I have WRC 5-Spokes on one Evo8, and on another I have tried either Yokohama AVS Model T7 or Enkei RS+M on another, with good results.

Ah yes good way of putting it.
NO NO BRICKS ARE BRICKS LOL

There is only one substance which is indestructible and that's diamonds for now...

Bricks can still be broken... what do you think happens to them when natural disaster happens?

@xw6669: They are commonly used because it gives the evos grip, as well as smoothness in terms of turns... unlike rims like 3-spoke which is jerky... but still good if you know how to compensate for them...

T7 = straight line speed and fairly slidy

ok. HEavyweights are diamonds. Which are actually quite true.

Oh, it was very fragile. Let me explain.

The GTO in DX was very hard to handle because you could feel all the weight sliding to one side very noticably in any turn, meaning you had to fight against it in order to come through with a good line. However, this stability was very weak, and if you got hit on the inside, it completely upset the weight distribution, giving the weight more momentum towards moving to the far wall of the curve (instead of keeping your line), and thus it usually put you into the wall because you couldn't fight the increased momentum. I mean, getting hit in any car from the inside on a curve does that, but for whatever reason the GTO was stupidly unstable. This made it as easy to hit into walls as lightweight cars, like RX7s or the MX5. Other cars in DX had much better ram resistance, even other heavyweights. In my opinion, the GTO just felt TOO heavy. It was just too hard to control, and thus really easy for others to smack around on curves because controling the weight momentum was so damn difficult.

I really tried to make it work too, since I had lost my R34 main at the time and was trying to transition to a new car. I tried for... what? A month or so? But it just didn't click. It was just too easy to get planted, so I switched. All this has been fixed in DX+, making the car infinitely better imo.

All you need now is like chaser/celsior to complete the collection of heavyweights...