Evo

Produced by world-class motoring journalists and racers, evo communicates the raw emotion of owning, driving and testing the world’s greatest performance cars.Bringing together informative car reviews, vivid photography, exciting track tests and dramatic drive stories in glorious landscapes, evo is considered the bible for performance car enthusiasts.

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Cupra Leon e-Hybrid • The first Cupra Leon is here – and it’s a plug-in hybrid. Can it convince hot hatch fans to embrace the batteries?

Rolls-Royce Ghost • Latest Ghost gets a new platform, four-wheel steering and fresh looks, and continues to set the luxury saloon bar

Polestar 2 Performance • Tesla’s Model 3 has had things its own way in the performance EV market. The Polestar 2 aims to change that

Hyundai i20 N • Hyundai’s i30 N put the cat firmly among the hot hatch pigeons. Will some more feathers now be ruffled with this, its smaller i20 N brother?

Taxidermy: is the French performance car stuffed? • The French government is increasing its punitive taxes on cars based on their CO2 emissions, threatening to kill off the country’s performance car sector as we know it

Alpine to replace Renault Sport • Hot Renault models to wear ‘A’ badges as Alpine copies Cupra and Abarth

Speed freak • Bugatti Bolide takes the Chiron platform to the extreme. Does a crack at the Nürburgring track record beckon?

Take a Bow • KTM adds an extra cross to its Bow with the track-only GTX

Dutch delight • Donkervoort’s featherweight track-only version of the JD70 arrives with 573bhp per ton… and a £214k price tag

Golf Clubbed • New GTI Clubsport prepares to take on Honda’s Civic Type R

WATCHES

THE EVO BLUEPRINT WEIGHT • WEIGHT, OR LACK OF IT, IS CRUCIAL TO A GREAT DRIVING EXPERIENCE. WE ASK THE EXPERTS FOR THEIR VIEWS ON HOW THE INDUSTRY IS TACKLING THE GROWING CHALLENGE OF KEEPING CAR WEIGHT TO A MINIMUM

Shami Kalra Watchmaker and car enthusiast • A childhood surrounded by German metal has influenced Shami Kalra’s car choices, while a passion for motorsport has fuelled the meteoric rise of his Omologato watch brand

THE EVO ENCYCLOPEDIA THIS MONTH V-W • Richard Porter tackles more motoring definitions in the penultimate instalment of our automotive A to Z

DOA:Renault Clio RS16 • With 271bhp, a manual gearbox and a weaponised chassis, this ‘SuperClio’ could have restored the Renault Sport Clio’s reputation, but instead it had to be sacrificed for a higher cause

LETTER OF THE MONTH Regression analysis

RICHARD MEADEN • The unexpected restorative powers of a chance encounter with a skilled driver

RICHARD PORTER • It’s time for some hard truths about motor racing’s influence on road cars

JETHRO BOVINGDON • Electric cars need more character, and there’s an obvious place to look for it

PARTY CRASHER • It’s got them covered on paper, but has Mini’s latest Works GP got the moves to outperform Renault’s rival Mégane RS Trophy-R and VW’s benchmark Golf GTI Clubsport S?

WITCH CRAFT • How do you keep the best car in its class at the very top? Honda’s engineers think they have the answer with the refreshed FK8 Civic Type R

LIFE THROUGH A LENS COLIN McMASTER • He’s one of the world’s leading rally photographers and a co-founder of the McKlein photographic agency. Here Colin McMaster charts his rise to success and shares with us some of his favourite images

BATTLE OF BRITONS • The latest Bentley Continental GT V8 and Aston Martin Vantage offer two different takes on the front-engined supercoupe formula. But which should you choose?

GODZILLA INTHEMIST • Nissan’s R35 GT-R has been carving its own unique path through the motoring landscape since 2008. Fourteen...