With 200bhp at the front wheels, it’s not too difficult to explain how there is wheelspin in second gear. This is not your ordinary luxury Lancer. This monster has been poked with rods, tortured in a garage and has had its organs flown in form various parts of the world to make it what it is now. Engine, turbo and even the ECU have been tweaked and tuned to get the extra edge.

The owner is, according to his elderly neighbour, far from sane. For Prasad Divadkar, no amount of money is too much to ensure that his car goes that much quicker. From the time you get off the clutch it’s clear that it is more than regular Lancer-quick. Still, It’s not really evident till you get past 5000rpm when the Garret GT25R Turbo kicks in. That’s when everything goes out of whack. It feels like everything around you has suddenly gotten a whole lot slower. Bhoom! Once the wheelspin stops, your head is pushed back into the headrest. It’s absolutely mental, the Apexl exhaust screams away to glory just begging you to keep going.

Keep your foot down, and the car won’t let up. Nail a shift right and you’re rewarded and then get it right again and your reward is even more performance. It’s relentless. The power simply never seems to taper off.

There is enough power to keep you happy while overtaking on the highway and even if you have to keep changing gear in the city, who cares? The sound of the blow-off valve going off is enough to make you forgive its vices. Under its VIS carbon fibre hood lie some seriously outrageous modifications: the original 1.5-litre engine has been swapped for a 1.8-litre (4G93T) GSR motor with forged Arias internals mated to a front-wheel-drive transmission and a Cusco two-way LSD (Limited Slip Differential). Other modifications include a GReddy Ultimate piggyback ECU and front and rear discs lifted off an EVO IV. All this adds up little by little to send this car rocketing from 0-00kph in just 7.22 seconds. Well, that’s not proof enough of how quick this car is because there’s just too much wheelspin. It takes just 4.6 seconds to go from 80-120kph too.

Even on the outside the car is quite a stunner, its inky blue paint shining in the afternoon sun. The first thing that hits you is the massive front bumper which looks like it’s from the EVO VI. As your eyes wander over the car, you notice the massive 17-inch black SSR rims wrapped in 205/40 Yokohoma rubber and all the way at the back is a big VIS carbon fibre spoiler.

While you’re still trying to figure out what’s missing, it hits you that there are no door handles. The doors open at the push of a button. Neat! In a ‘Fast and the Furious’ kind of way!

The insides of the car are far from good looking, it’s more basic functionality than anything else. The dashboard now houses a whole array of Defi gauges which indicate everything from engine temperature to boost. The stock seats have been thrown out and replaced by sweet and comfortable Ten20 Racing seats.

This is certainly not a place for families. If you have a Lancer that you’re itching to get up to par, then get in touch with Krupesh Patel from Electra Automotive in Chennai, who I responsible for tuning this car, on +919884049269,

It would cost you around Rs 15 lakh to get your Lancer to this point. It could also get you into a lot of trouble every time you pass a police barricade, but imagine being able to smoke an SL500, or even put a Porsche Boxster S owner to shame. Sounds like a deal now, doesn’t it?