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.

Evo

Ed speak

Volkswagen Golf R • It’s faster, more powerful and more sophisticated than ever, but can the Mk8 Golf R deliver the pure driving thrills we crave?

AC Cobra 378 Superblower MkIV • With nearly 600bhp from its supercharged V8, this is the most powerful production Cobra ever. Hold on to your hat!

Litchfield McLaren 570GT • Limited-slip diff, chassis tweaks and a power hike to 720bhp take the 570’s abilities to a new level

Audi RS e-tron GT • Its Porsche EV underpinnings ensure true supersaloon performance, but is it RS enough?

Fantasy in blue • Imagine an Alpine A110-derived endurance racer. That’s what designer Arseny Kostromin did, and the results are stunning

Vantage goes hardcore • Aston Martin’s return to Formula 1 is marked by a new Vantage F1 Edition with a strong bias towards track work

One Lauda • Gordon Murray’s T.50 supercar gets turned up to 11 for the £3.1m, track-only T.50s Niki Lauda

CHRIS CRAFT, 1939-2021 • The racing driver and LCC Rocket co-creator, who has died aged 81

WATCHES

DOA:Leyland Force 7 • This V8-powered hatchback was all set to take on the Australian muscle car establishment until the twin 1970s woes of the oil crisis and Leyland build quality intervened

David Mountain Founder, Mountune • From autocross Anglias to championship-winning BTCC and WRC machines, David Mountain recalls the cars that have made the biggest impressions on his personal and professional lives

Black flagged

RICHARD MEADEN • Meaden’s warming to EVs, but he isn’t convinced they’re the only way forward

RICHARD PORTER • It’s time for some home truths about the GR Yaris, reckons Porter

JETHRO BOVINGDON • The increased abilities of today’s cars could also be their undoing, thinks Jethro

SIÁN IS BELIEVING • Boosted by an electric motor, Lamborghini’s Sián can unleash a mighty 808bhp. It’s ferociously fast, but is it really worth its ferociously expensive £2.6million (plus taxes) price tag? A cross-country drive reveals all

ICONS • We choose six cars we believe are well on the way to securing icon status – and identify five others for which the ‘icon’ label just didn’t stick

TOYOTA GR YARIS • The Yaris has secured future icon status in a matter of months

RENAULT SPORT CLIO 200 • The RS engineers had pretty much free rein – and it showed

TOYOTA GT86 • We weren’t its biggest fans initially, but its time has now come

ALPINE A110 • This was the lightweight sports car we’d all been hoping for

ALFA ROMEO GIULIA QUADRIFOGLIO • The Quadrifoglio came from nowhere and re-ordered our world

FERRARI 430 SCUDERIA • The Scud blended technology and savagery to winning effect

THE ICONS THAT NEVER WERE • Lauded at the time (including often by us) these cars never quite nailed the icon thing. We’d better explain ourselves

MAXED GRILLE • On some epic roads and flat-out at the test track, we find out if the G82-generation BMW M4 has what it takes to join the ranks of iconic M-cars. Just don’t mention the you-know-what

ANALYSE THIS! • If, like us, you’re a fan of oversteer, you’ll love the new M4’s Drift Analyser function, which measures the length and angle of your slides and awards them a star rating. We put it to the test around Bedford Autodrome’s West Circuit

A STING IN THE TAIL • Icons don’t come...