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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RML Short Wheelbase • We get our first intoxicating taste of the reimagined Ferrari icon with 550M underpinnings

BMW M240i xDrive Coupé • A weight of 1690kg, an auto ’box and four-wheel drive are very different ingredients to BMW’s usual small coupe fare, but the engineers have cooked up something rather special here

Audi R8 V10 Performance RWD Edition • The rear-drive R8 has been upgraded to ‘Performance’ spec, with more power and a revised chassis. Is it a change for the better?

The last hurrah • Aston Martin’s V12-engined Vantage goes out with a 690bhp charge

Caterham’s electric dreams • As the automotive world swings towards electrification, what does the future hold for the UK’s specialist car makers – companies like Caterham? We’ve been finding out

Lotus charges up • 600bhp Eletre – the world’s first electric super-SUV – spearheads Lotus’s shift to high-tech EV maker

Part 8 Getting air in and out • Cooling engines and now batteries is a crucial element of car design – although sometimes what you see is an identity-providing illusion

Jeff Zwart Film director, author and racer • Whether filming them, racing them or driving them for pleasure, Porsches have always been a part of Jeff Zwart’s life. Here he tells evo about some of the most memorable

DOA:VOLKSWAGEN W12 • A genuine supercar from the maker of people’s cars seemed tantalisingly possible – until logic prevailed

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Variety performance

Watches • This month’s most talked about newcomers

RICHARD MEADEN • Next time you drive, spare a thought for the road surface, says Meaden

RICHARD PORTER • Porter plays ‘Horrible & Expensive’ with the Porsche online configurator

JETHRO BOVINGDON • The world is embracing the pariah Porsche, and about time, says Jethro

DREAM THEATRE • We’ve finally been given what we’ve been longing for – a Cayman with the full RS treatment and a soaring, naturally aspirated 493bhp flat-six. Let the entertainment begin

CIRCUIT JUDGED • We’ve experienced the GT4 RS on the road in the Portuguese sunshine; now it’s time to head to slightly less balmy North Wales to put the car through its paces on Anglesey Circuit

HEAVY METAL • It’s the clash of the supersaloons as Cadillac’s mighty CT5-V Blackwing takes on our reigning Car of the Year, BMW’s sensational M5 CS

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DRAG STRIP • A Top Fuel dragster squeezes 12,500 horsepower from a V8 piston engine. We look at a stripped-down car and find out how it achieves it

HIGH AND MIGHTY • Aston Martin’s latest addition to its DBX range is the 697bhp DBX707 – a super-SUV that most definitely speaks our language

LIFE THROUGH A LENS LARRY CHEN • He’s the official photographer for Pikes Peak and the Formula Drift series, and shoots cars in countless other scenarios too. Larry Chen talks to evo about his rise to automotive photography success and selects some of his favourite images

NOBLE M400 • The M12 was the car that saw Noble hit the big time, and the M400 was the fastest, most hardcore evolution of all. We reacquaint ourselves with the noughties road-racer

NOBLE CAUSE • In 2006 Lee Noble was on a high. The M12 was selling well; the M15 was ready to go. Then it all went bad. Here he reveals how he lost the firm that still bears his name

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