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This Month's evo: February 2006 evo (issue 88)

This month Audi's beefy RS4 takes on BMW's M3 CS and the Mercedes C55 AMG, plus Jeff Daniels goes all technical and compares the RS4 4wd system against the Porsche 911 Carrera 4 and Mitsubishi Evo IX transmission setups. Also Richard Meaden heads to Japan and gets a lesson in drifting from one of the Japanese masters. On sale now.

by: EVO team

6 Jan 2006

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