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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Ferrari 849 Testarossa • Can Ferrari’s new series-production flagship win the hearts and minds of those left cold by its SF90 predecessor? This is the moment of truth

Volkswagen Golf GTI Edition 50 • Could this be the moment when the Mk8 Golf GTI finally fulfils its potential? Let’s find out

Toyota GR Yaris AeroPerformance • A wilder-looking winged variant of the GR Yaris joins Toyota’s GR range – and the best news is it’s coming to the UK

VEYRON REBORN • Bugatti’s latest Solitaire one-off special reimagines the Veyron 20 years on, taking advantage of the latest technology – and giving it 60 per cent more power

BIG CAT DANCES ON ICE • Jaguar’s controversial, all-electric GT is entering the final stages of testing; we try a prototype in Sweden and find it’s not averse to a little snow-drifting

MITJA BORKERT Design director, Automobili Lamborghini • From the shadow of the Berlin Wall to the pinnacle of Sant’Agata: Mitja Borkert explains how a childhood dreaming of forbidden fruit shaped his vision for Lamborghini

RICHARD MEADEN • From F1 testing to record-breaking auctions, Meaden surveys a high-octane start to 2026

RICHARD PORTER • The Slate Truck is more about clever marketing than genuine simplicity, reckons Porter

HOT HOT HOT • These seminal 1980s French hatches are now covetable modern classics. But is our love for the Renault 5 GT Turbo, Citroën AX GT and Peugeot 205 GTI purely nostalgic, or do they still deliver?

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FRENCH EVOLUTION • French company Ravage puts a brilliant new spin on the Alpine A110, taking inspiration from the iconic A110 Group 4 rally cars of the 1970s. Where better to drive the results than the stunning Col de Turini

NEW POWER GENERATION • A world away from the A110, Alpine’s most ambitious gamble yet is a 464bhp electric ‘sport fastback’. Can it match Hyundai’s Ioniq 5 N when it comes to pure driver appeal?

THE RING AND I • They say you can never truly learn the Nürburgring Nordschleife, regardless of how many laps you do. evo’s deputy editor puts that theory to the test with possibly the ultimate training school

DRAGON QUEST • ‘The Tail of the Dragon’ is reputedly one of the world’s greatest driving roads, twisting through North America’s Great Smoky Mountains. We go in search of driving nirvana in the latest Mini JCW

EXTREME SPORTS • are no greater extremes in rallying than the Monte Carlo and the Dakar. We witness both iconic events from the inside

DAKAR RALLY

Mazda MX-5 2.0 Sport Nav & RF 2.0 Homura • How does our ten-year-old MX-5 compare with our current model?

Alfa Romeo Stelvio Veloce • Our service-bound Veloce hands over to an upmarket stand-in

Dacia Duster 130 4x4 • A no-frills tool in a high-performance world, did our Duster’s honest grit win over the sceptics?

Ford Capri V8 • A bare-metal strip-down to rectify paint problems has sparked a colour change for Project Capri

Land Rover Defender Octa • Up, up and away – in our physics-defying Land Rover

THE KNOWLEDGE

Why track training helps you master the road • Skills honed on a closed course deliver a vital edge on the street, explains Paul Ripley