I thought it was a demonstration of just what a laggy, gas-guzzling piece of crap the Lancer FQ400 was. As far as I remember, the turbo still worked, it was just a case of the dustbin-lid sized turbine taking somewhere in the region of a fortnight to spool up.
Although it's engine issues are far surpassed by it's main problem - what it looks like. Those carbon fibre fin things on the roof in particular make me want to implode.