MOST SURPRISING 0-60
Winner Panamera Turbo
A two-ton saloon that sprints to 60 in 3.6sec, leaving the likes of the 911 GT2 behind.
Runner-up Focus ST Mountune
0-60 in 5.8sec was impressive enough; even more so because it was 0.2sec faster than the supposedly more hardcore Focus RS.

BEST MODIFIED CAR OF THE YEAR
Winner Parr Cayman S Turbo
A single light-pressure turbo gives the Cayman a heavyweight 480bhp punch (evo 137). Neat, effective and hugely thrilling. Tuners rule where Porsche dare not tread…
Runner-up Autograph Golf
If you want a Golf GTI with more grunt and a suitably harder edge, maybe with occasional track work in mind, this subtle, considered conversion (evo 132) hits the bull’s eye.

BEST 0-60 OF THE YEAR
Lamborghini LP670-4 SV
Ladies and gentlemen, we give you the SV: 0-60mph in 3.2sec, and 0-100 in 7.3. Impressive, oh yes, but just imagine what the 661bhp 6.5-litre 48-valve V12 sounds like while it’s delivering that.

THE ‘HURRY UP AND BUILD IT’ AWARD FOR BEST CONCEPT
Winner VW BlueMotion
Neat design, promising mid-engined dynamics. The future of fun, affordable sports cars looks bright again. Come on VW, push the button!
Runner-up Lambo Estoque
Unmistakably a modern Lambo but somehow not as contrived as Aston’s four-door DB9 or Porsche’s bloated 911.

SCARIEST CAR OF THE YEAR
Winner Caterham levante
Familiar Caterham Seven surroundings rendered utterly unfamiliar and horrendously skewed by immensely potent and snappy 500bhp V8. Lapping Bedford is heart-in-mouth stuff, and it’s almost a relief when it gets stuck in third gear. Not so much driving on the edge as clinging to it by the fingernails.
Runner-up Riding with Eikhorn
Rural T-junction. Bentley Continental Supersports. 621bhp and 590lb ft of torque plus Engineering Director Ully Eichhorn. Full-bore standing start. Turning sharp right. No, this isn’t happening. Oh yes it is. Holy crap.

TECHNOLOGICAL INNOVATION OF THE YEAR
Winner Nissan 370Z downshift blip thing
It sounds wrong to enjoy a system that takes away the need for a driving skill but we love the way the 370Z automatically gives exactly the right heel’n’toe throttle-blip as you change down. It selects just the right revs on upshifts too, and so smoothes out every gearchange.
Runner-up Porsche paddles
Now available on the PDK (twin-clutch) 911 Turbo. Hell, these paddles are so simple and intuitive – pull the left one to shift down, the right to shift up – they might just catch on.
Honourable mention IFR Aspid’s brakes
Take some spindly discs that look like they come from a mountain bike and use them to stop a car (the amazing Aspid, evo 126). Incredibly, not only do they work once, but again and again.

TURKEY OF THE YEAR
Winner BMW X6 M
Remember the nimble, delicate E30 M3? Looking at the fat-arsed, over-powered, dynamically inert X6 M, we wonder if anyone at M Gmbh does. Or if anyone there recalls declaring they’d never make an M car with four-wheel drive. Or an autobox. Or out of an SUV. 
Runner-up Porsche Panamera Turbo
There’s so much cleverness going on with the Turbo’s trick four-wheel-drive chassis that the engineers forgot to make it good to drive.

BEST MOTORSPORT MOMENTS
1. Brawn’s Supremacy: driver’s title for Jenson, manufacturers’ title for the team.
2. Fisi and Force India at Spa, giving Ferrari a run for their money.
3. Max receiving a horsewhip as a leaving pressie from UK hacks.
4. Rossi getting the better of Lorenzo on the last corner of the last lap of Lorenzo’s home GP. in Barcelona

WORST MOTORSPORT MOMENTS
Hamilton in Liargate
Renault in Crashgate
evo Grand Challenge MG team in Carwashgate

RAY CHARLES DESIGN AWARD
Winner BMW 5-series GT
They probably never saw it, but here in the UK we had this car called the Rover SD1. It was the same concept; only difference was it looked good. Mind you, that was 35 years ago…
Runner up Jaguar XJ (rear three-quarters view)
OK, Maser’s gorgeous Quattroporte is hard to better, but the big Jag doesn’t even come close

TECHNOLOGICAL FLOP OF THE YEAR
Smart FourTwo ED
An electric Smart sounds like a good idea, but the ED most certainly isn’t. It took 6.5sec to get to 30mph and struggled to a 60mph top speed, but worst of all it used 22 per cent of its battery life on a mere six-mile trip to our local Tesco. ‘Quite possibly the most hopeless test car evo has ever had to endure,’ we wrote.

DISAPPOINTMENT OF THE YEAR
Loser Corvette ZR1
We’re fans of the Z06 and expected to love the even more potent ZR1. Sadly, each corner of the test car’s chassis (evo 133) felt like it was trying to take the car in a slightly different direction. Worrisome with so much grunt.
Next worst Audi TT RS
Glorious five-pot engine, sharp looks, decent grip. But dreadful steering. Variable assistance allows it to be wrong right across the speed range, corrupting the dynamic feel of the car entirely. A major fumble.
Dishonourable mentions
Alfa’s Mito and the Abarth 500 EsseEsse were also vying to underwhelm us, while the 370Z  didn’t move the 350Z’s game on like we hoped it would. Except for that throttle-bip thing…

MOST EMBARRASSING MOMENT
Dobie crashes the Grand Challenge BMW
Driving the teabag-like 325i Cabrio up a greasy slip-road, young webmeister Stephen Dobie discovers the BMW’s legendary tail-happiness first hand. It’s the second handful of oppo that defeats him, as it whips back the other way. The Armco is barely grazed but the 325i is a write-off.  Team-mate Marriage sees the funny side, eventually…
Runner-up Porsche bosses  Well before the unveiling of their new saloon, Stuttgart suits use undisguised Panameras to attend the Geneva show, neglecting to inform the PR department of their actions. Result: as soon as word gets around, hundreds of hacks leave the show to find the car park and take lots of photos. Oops.

OVERHYPED CAR OF THE YEAR
Winner Toyota iQ.
Nowhere near as clever as it thinks it is.  A Smart is still smarter, and a CitroΫn C1 makes more sense than either of them. At £11K the iQ is hardly the new People’s Car.  In fact they may as well stick an Aston grille on the front and be done… Eh? They’ve done what?
Runner-up Ford Focus RS
It’s a good car, but under all the pseudo WRC Focus arch blisters and wings and splitters and nuclear green paint, it’s not so different to the slightly chubby, likeable ST, which is a lot less embarrassing to be seen in.

THE 'PLEASE DON'T BUILD IT' AWARD FOR WORST CONCEPT
Winner Aston Martin Cygnet The sequence runs something like this: Wolseley Hornet, Panther Rio, Mitsuoka Viewt, Aston Martin Cygnet (pictured below). Didn’t anyone tell them the Ugly Duckling was a cygnet…
Runner-up  Aston Lagonda
Sneakily revealed at an un-Godly 8am on the day after press day at Geneva (and pictured in evo 130). From the winces and audible gasps from those who’d made the effort to be there, you’d have thought Dr Bez had belly-flopped into a paddling pool, dressed as a Smurf.

IT COSTS HOW MUCH?
The Losing the Plot Award
Winner Brabham Racing BT92
Take a lovely BMW M3, super-size the wheels, balloon the arches, massage the V8 up to a stonking 500bhp and give it an evocative badge. Then attempt to charge five times the list price, for a car that doesn’t hang together as well as the original. That’s the £250K BT92 (evo 131).
Runner-up Lexus LFA (£340K)
Unusual coupe sty… IT COSTS HOW MUCH?! Trick  V10 engine produ…IT COSTS HOW MUCH?! Limited production, ju… IT COSTS HOW MUCH?! Yup, however good it is, there’s no getting past that ludicrous price-tag.
Not forgetting the…
Nissan GT-R V-spec – twice the price of a normal one, possibly because they’re selling the normal one at half what it costs to make. And finally, Porsche’s Cayenne Diesel – not the cheapest Porsche but the cheapest trick to part badge snobs from their cash. BMW X6 M – Only rich bullies with small cocks need apply

CAN'T BUY ME TASTE AWARD
Winner Marangoni Mito
In the insect world, bright colours say ‘Don’t eat me, I taste horrible.’ In the car world, with its insect-wing doors and red tyres (honestly, I’m not making this up), the vivid Marangoni Mito shouts ‘Move along, please, I’m tasteless.’
Runner-up Mansory Chopster
A chopped-roof, carbonfibre-clad Cayenne with Dukes of Hazzard-esque stripes (page 29, evo 130 if you really need reminding). Makes the mouth water… like it does just before you heave so that the vomit doesn’t strip the enamel from your teeth.