In the olden days, to experience the power
and speed of a Lamborghini Murcielago, you had to buy...
a Lamborghini Murcielago. The thing is, they're hopelessly
impractical and very expensive. But now, apparently, there's a solution. This is a Mitsubishi Evo 8. And underneath
all the flamboyant sticky-out bits, it is in essence a four-door saloon. So there's space in the back
for three children and it has a big boot. But mostly
it's a turbocharged computerised, four-wheel drive, road-going rally car. So, when you drive this thing
really, really hard... it just redefines what you think
is physically possible. And even when the grid runs out,
like that... Sit, chat, read a book...
you're not going off. The computer's
sorting everything out for you You have to say that it's almost
impossible to crash this. Look, one finger... One-finger power sliding. There's no other car
I've ever driven that could do this. It really does make a ballet dancer
look like she's got hooves. Even when it's in tripod mode, with one of its back wheels
wiggling around in the air, it still won't let go! As a result of all this, I really do think
that this car could go round a corner faster than a Lamborghini Murcielago. But what about the bits
in-between the corners? You would imagine that on the straits
it would be left trailing in the supercar's wake. On the face of it, you'd have a point, because the rules of rallying say
that the engine has to be a two litre. And to give you an idea how small that is, this carton contains 2.3 litres of milk. So, this engine is smaller than this and yet Mitsubishi's British engineers have managed to extract
400 brake horsepower from it. 400 brake horsepower
from something smaller than that?! Technically, that is astonishing. It even comes with a three-year warranty,
which is even more astonishing, but the most astonishing thing of all
is the performance. It does nought to 60
in three and a half seconds and has a top speed of 175. That's roadrunner performance!
That's the stuff of cartoons. And to help keep it on the road,
it even has some cartoon styling as well. It has this Sonic the Hedgehog arrangement
on the roof to help keep it straight
and true at speed. And to help it cleave the air more easily,
it has shrunken door mirrors which appear to have been modelled
on Shrek's ears. Has it worked, though? Can the Evo really be as fast as this V12
570-brake horsepower Lamborghini? I mean,
this is three times more expensive. It has three times as many cylinders
and three times the cubic capacity. Well, let's find out. Can the big, bad
super bull shake off the Evo? And don't think I'm going to cheat
by putting James May in the Lamborghini. The green car is, in fact,
being driven by James Kay, who's a British touring car champion. Here we go. Way faster than you through this,
sunshine! You could see the back of that Lambo
twitching coming out of the corner. Look at this. Look at this!
Both these cars are four-wheel drive, so there's none
of that tail-out, tyre-smoke malarkey that we normally show you on Top Gear. This is precision stuff. I could have had him then. But that's not the game.
I don't need to overtake him. I just want to know, can he shake me off? This is amazing,
a fit young racing driver in a supercar and he cannot pull away
from a fat man in a four-door saloon. I can turn tighter... I can turn harder... I reckon I'm going to bully him
into making a mistake. Steering wide... Now, you see? You see? You see? He's gone! He's gone!
He's put his wiper on. Loser! Loser! So, there we are. This incredible four-door family saloon
really is as fast as a Lamborghini. Holy moly! What a thing! Yes. Yes, but unfortunately... I've only shown you half the film so far.
