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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Land Rover Defender Octa • Pushing the boundaries of off-road capability and on-road performance, the 626bhp Octa is the most extreme Defender yet

Caterham Seven CSR Twenty • Special edition marks 20 years of the CSR chassis. The result? A superb road-biased Seven

Ferrari 296 Challenge • Stripped of the road car’s heavy and complex hybrid technology, Ferrari’s entry-level competition car provides a glimpse of an alternative universe

Maserati GranCabrio Folgore • It’s two years since we drove Maserati’s first all-electric car in prototype form. Now’s it’s ready, was it worth the wait?

Audi RS4 Edition 25 Years • Limited 50-off special sees the RS4 as we know it go out in a blaze of Imola Yellow glory

SCREAM MACHINES • In the face of ever-tightening emissions regulations, Cosworth stands alone in producing fully compliant, high-revving, naturally aspirated supercar engines. We ask: what’s its secret?

CATERHAM’S 21ST CENTURY MOVE • The British sports car maker has moved into a new multi-million-pound factory that is expected to see production increase by 50 per cent. We pay it a visit

WIRE POWER • Lexus is developing the first ever fully ‘by wire’ steering system. We put it to the test, and find out how it could benefit the driver’s cars of the future

Part 6 Advanced braking techniques • Brakes can be used for more than just slowing a car, and there’s more than one way to apply them too, as John Barker reveals

Ben Edwards Motorsport commentator • He’s called the action as it happens on every motorsport imaginable – from F1 to powerboats – but the consummate commentator gets as much fulfilment from behind the wheel as behind the microphone

RICHARD MEADEN • As Ferrari fans welcome Hamilton, Meaden recalls his own first encounter with the tifosi

RICHARD PORTER • Porter mourns the passing of the traditional Paris Car and the art of parking by touch

WEAPON OF CHOICE • You can order the new Porsche 911 GT3 in ‘regular’ winged form or as the wingless Touring. We find out how the Gen 2 992 performs on road and track

TRUE BLUE? • Alpine would like us to believe that the A290 electric hatch shares much of the same DNA that makes the A110 such a great driver’s car. Time to put that claim to the test

THREE KINGS • Three generations of track-focused McLaren hypercars: F1 GTR, P1 GTR and Senna GTR, together for the first time in matching warpaint. This would be a day to remember

ROADSHOW • Not the least extraordinary thing about our three GTRs is that they’re all road-registered. Well, it would have been remiss not to

FIRST TO BE READ. LAST TO BE PUT DOWN.

NISSAN 350Z • The 350Z was both a nod to the classic 240Z and a thoroughly modern coupe. Today it’s an icon in its own right, but does the drive live up to the memories?

THE ANATOMY OF A DTM CAR • In 2000, the DTM was reborn with a new rule-set, a new ethos and a new hero car, the Mercedes CLK DTM. We look under its skin

BMW Z4 M40i Handschalter & Porsche 718 Boxster GTS 4.0 • What’s better than a six-cylinder roadster with a manual gearbox? Two of them, perhaps? Meet the latest additions to our Fast Fleet

Alfa Romeo Giulia Quadrifoglio • Deprived of the Quadrifoglio for a Scottish road trip, can a Giulia Veloce make a worthy substitute?

Land Rover Defender 90 V8 • It can tackle the wild, but...