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Originally Posted by Vettezuki

Cornfed,

I don't think a car that started in the 80s can really achieve the level of "icon" under any circumstance. The Evo is a magnificent car and it's clearly iconic for your generation, but not on the grand scale IMO.

if you wanna take a deeper looking into the evo lineage and go for the subject wording of lancer-to-evo or lancer/evo or just lancer. you will come to find that the lancer started life in 1973 and was competing in rally's it was released in the US in 1977 as the dodge colt. for a couple of years, before they switch that up to another chassis in the dodge/chrystler/mitsu clusterfuk of naming confusion that they like to do.

threw a long, confusing lineage the lancer-to-lancer evo family has been around and a performing sports car. it has history in the same way the skyline has, given the skyline lineage is still slightly older but by only a few year's.

so my claim still stands