Evos are pretty hard to work on if youre not very confident with tools and cars, whereas a starlet is piss easy and any cunt can have a go.  Clutch for example will set you back a good few hundred quid. Service parts alone are quite expensive if youre sticking to the proper schedule and doing them every 4.5K  My work used to be Mitsubishi and the quoted time for big services was like 5 hours at 120 quid an hour + parts lol.