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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Porsche 911 C4 GTS • Think Turbo lite, with the odd GT3 flourish thrown in. The Carrera 4 GTS is the inbetweener in the 911 range, and it’s really rather good

Bentley Continental GT Speed • With 650bhp and a revised chassis, the latest GT Speed is the most capable Continental yet, and all without sacrificing its grand touring abilities

Hyundai Kona N • Can the N division’s magic touch translate from its hot hatches to a crossover? Turns out it can…

Porsche on a mission • Porsche is flexing its eco credentials with its Mission R electric race car, while Lotus unveils a racing version of the Emira

Gavan Kershaw Attributes director, Lotus • The man behind the handling of countless modern Lotuses talks about his career, his influences and his road and race car history

Only fuels and horses • E10 is greener but also less powerful. Here’s the full lowdown

WATCHES

Part 2 Giant front grilles • The grille is one of the most important elements of a car’s design, but why have they become so big, and where will it all end? Peter Stevens shares his thoughts

DOA: TALBOT HORIZON LOTUS • The Sunbeam Lotus successor was mid-engined and turbocharged, but lacked another vital ingredient

INBOX

RICHARD MEADEN • Reinventing the (steering) wheel is a delicate business, explains Meaden

RICHARD PORTER • Leather is overrated, reckons Porter. It’s time to embrace the corduroy

JETHRO BOVINGDON • Drifting could be Jethro’s favourite motorsport – with a little fine-tuning

THE PERFECT 10 • Ten evo staffers and contributors each name their dream 10 cars – and we reveal evo’s combined Perfect 10. Some of the choices may surprise you…

HENRY CATCHPOLE • Henry’s been agonising over which Porsche, which Ferrari… and which Ariel

STUART GALLAGHER • A Cayman ahead of a 911, and an Elise rather than a Seven? What’s going on?

JOHN BARKER • Barker finds room in his Perfect 10 for a Buick – and a double-decker bus

STEVE SUTCLIFFE • No McLaren F1 or Ferrari F40? Sutcliffe had better explain himself

ADAM TOWLER • Towler chooses the cars that really moved him – and occasionally scared him

RICHARD MEADEN • Apparently there’s nothing in the rules about not choosing your own car…

HARRY METCALFE • Surprises in Metcalfe’s ten, starting with a Countach that isn’t his own QV

RICHARD PORTER • As you might expect, Porter’s choices range from the sublime to the ridiculous

DAVID VIVIAN • How a hybrid hypercar suddenly made everything crystal clear for Vivian

JETHRO BOVINGDON • Some leftfield choices here, including a rare ’60s exotic – and an E60 M5. Brave man…

THE FINAL TEN • The agonising is over. Editor Gallagher reveals the combined evo Perfect 10

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LIFE THROUGH A LENS PETER J FOX • Over three decades he’s captured Formula 1’s most action-packed moments and its most contemplative. Here Peter J Fox explains how he landed his dream job and chooses some of his favourite images

STILL HOOKED ON SPEED • For Richard Meaden, driving this Skoda to 227mph at Bonneville ten years ago was an experience never to be forgotten. A chance to drive it again – this time on the Millbrook bowl – brought all those memories flooding back

SEEING THE LIGHT • If lightness is...