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This Month's evo: August 2006 evo (issue 94)

Two variants of Stuttgart's finest - the 911 Turbo and a Carrera GT - face off against working class hero, the Mitsi Evo IX, in our cover story group test. The Turbo then takes on a Gallardo, and we road test an 800hp Koenigsegg - in the rain!

Planet evo

Letters

Driven

Audi TT v Nissan 350Z

The Science of Speed

Porsche Carrera GT, the new 911 Turbo, and Mitsubishi's Evo IX.Three very special cars, three very disparate price points. Richard Meaden investigates just how much separates them, on circuit, proving ground and Welsh blacktop...

911 Turbo Group Test

Nurburgring 24 hours

Dickie Meaden gets what he's always wanted: a drive in a nightmarishly scary 24-hour race amongst other nutters on the most terrifying circuit on the planet. Sounds like fun.

Le Mans or bust!

Koenigsegg road test

806bhp, no traction control, and a reputation for flinging professional racing drivers off the black stuff. Now the big bad Swedish supercar is put up against the big bad John Barker road test. One of them smokes, the other one spits flames.

Atom v Brooke v Caterham

Long-term tests

'Ring project car

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The Knowledge

Every performance car reviewed and rated (as they used to say).

Birth of an Icon

The first 911 Turbo was scary with just 260bhp. And yet they say men were men back then. Go figure.

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