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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Porsche 911 GT3 • A new GT3 is always a big deal, and the 992 generation feels quite a different sort of animal to its forebears. But is it better?
Peugeot 508 SW PSE • Peugeot is back in the performance car game, with this 355bhp hybrid estate making for a promising start
Alpina D3 S Touring • There’s life in the turbodiesel estate yet, and this reworking of BMW’s M340d is the pick of the bunch
VW Golf R Performance Pack • £2000 option adds a drift mode and more to Volkswagen’s superhatch. But is it worth it?
Porsche 718 Boxster GTS 4.0 PDK • The GTS 4.0 is tainted by overly long gearing in manual form, so could the paddleshift be the way to go?
Emira: Lotus’s last blast for ICE • Lotus’s all-new sports car will be its last with internal combustion before it embarks on an all-electric future. We find out what’s in store
evo trackdays are go! • Your chance to join us at Goodwood, Brands and Bedford
WATCHES
Phwoar horse • New ‘special version’ of Ferrari’s 812 to boast 819bhp from its naturally aspirated V12
RICHARD PARRY-JONES 1951-2021 • Parry-Jones was a legend of the car industry, responsible for transforming a generation of Fords, but also so much more
DOA:VOLKSWAGEN EA 266 • Few cancelled automotive projects have had such significant consequences, or been as costly, but the culling of VW’s original choice for a Beetle successor proved to be the right decision
Hidden agenda
RICHARD MEADEN • What we need right now, says Meaden, is a kei-style framework for sports cars
RICHARD PORTER • The key to autonomous driving is obvious to anyone with half a brain, says Porter
JETHRO BOVINGDON • The deifying of Porsche has left Jethro with a worrying affliction – Porsche fatigue
Z CAR • Aston Martin’s V12 Zagato is heading back into production – thoroughly revised and with more power. We drive it in prototype form
PART YANIMAL • The wild new Giulia GTA is Alfa Romeo’s 110th birthday present to itself. We try the hardcore GTAm version on road and track
GREEN ENERGY • We’ve experienced the GTAm on the road, now it’s time to put it to the test where its harnesses and half-cage make sense – on a race circuit, specifically on the challenging turns and elevation changes of Anglesey. Can it match the lap time of Jaguar’s XE Project 8 supersaloon? Place your bets now
RUNNING IN THE FAMILY • RML’s 250 Short Wheelbase is an artful reinvention of Ferrari’s immortal berlinetta, built around 550 Maranello underpinnings. Where do we sign?
THE ANATOMY OF A LE MANS GT CAR • The Prodrive 550 Maranello was the most successful GT racer of the early noughties – and the last V12 Ferrari to score a class win at Le Mans
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FIGHTING TORQUE • BMW and AMG’s 600bhp supersaloons are fresh from their mid-life facelifts. So which now delivers the winning blow?
GAME OVER • It’s time to bid farewell to Toyota’s GT86 and reflect on a car that always put playfulness ahead of outright performance
NISSAN 370Z: THE END OF THE ROAD
JAMES LIPMAN • Having established himself as one of the UK’s top automotive photographers, James Lipman is now enjoying similar success in the US. Here he shares his story and chooses some of his favourite images
BENTLEY’S BAD BOYS • No-one does excess with attitude quite like Bentley. On the following pages we...