Mitsubishi Lancer comes with a roomy cabin. Space is generous, and passengers should find more than enough room for heads, legs and elbows.The seats are covered in premium cloth fabric with silky embroidery stitching on the center inserts in a matching color. Side bolsters on the front buckets have contours for a comfortable fit. The driver's seat moves easily in eight directions, and we had no trouble adjusting it to fit long legs and a tall torso. In back is a bench with indentions for two passengers.
The steering column adjusts vertically, and we liked the feel of the thick wheel. For the O-Z Rally, it's padded and covered by stitched leatherette. Big, bold analog gauges are clustered beneath the arching cowl. Black gauges with white lettering are for ES and LS trims, while OZ Rally gets white-faced gauges.
The uncluttered design of the dashboard impressed us, as did the look and tone of materials used to dress the cabin. A band of plastic trim stretches across the upper part of the dashboard and divides it into top and bottom sections. For ES and LS versions, the plastic resembles dark walnut veneer and divides the dash into two-tone regions, with a dark color on top and a lighter one below. The O-Z Rally switches to brushed aluminum color for the trim panel, which blends nicely with the cabin's black color scheme.