Jaguar S-type 4.2 V8 R

Jaguar S-type 4.2 V8 R
A memory comes back to me from the early '90s, of driving the then-new 3.8-litre version of the M5. I can vividly remember being blown away by the Bee…
BMW 645 Ci

BMW 645 Ci
I was having some time off from my day job as Script Ed on Top Gear telly when news broke that we were re-recording a batch of studio links for an Ame…
Mitsubishi Evo MR 340

Mitsubishi Evo MR 340
Last month, you may remember, young Bovvers declared that, thanks to a set of aggressively grippy Dunlop Super Sport Race tyres, his love for the Evo …
Lotus Exige S2

Lotus Exige S2
Snow stopped play for most of March, with a triple whammy of Arctic weather at home, a week's skiing in Switzerland and, finally and most frustratingl…
Audi S4 Avant

Audi S4 Avant
Some things in life are certain. Toast will always drop butter-side down; there will always be a traffic jam when you're late; you will never have the…
Smart Roadster Coupe

Smart Roadster Coupe
Having retired from my City job and moved out of London (you win, Ken), I find my faithful Smart Roadster Coupe
Bugatti EB110 meets Edonis: The Offspring

Bugatti EB110 meets Edonis: The Offspring
The Bugatti-based Edonis is the car the EB110 might have become. We drive them both
Mitsubishi Evo MR 340

Mitsubishi Evo MR 340
I've always really enjoyed Evos, from the first Evo VII Extreme that I tried, through John Barker's manic Evo VII RS and particularly the latest MR ge…
Ford Mondeo ST TDCi

Ford Mondeo ST TDCi
The welcome arrival at the Buckley household of the Mondeo ST has coincided with the arrival of another fine Ford, a 1970 Zodiac MkIV estate - that's …
Lotus Exige S2

Lotus Exige S2
With the S Works long gone and no 'everyday' replacement on the horizon, I've been relying on the Exige almost exclusively of late. Much as I'd like t…
Smart Roadster Brabus

Smart Roadster Brabus
Brabus Roadster owning evo reader Anthony Yule wrote in last month to defend the car's gearbox in the face of a sound dissing from the evo crew during…
MINI Cooper S Works

MINI Cooper S Works
We're serial Mini owners here at evo, having bought and subsequently failed to sell our early Cooper Works (42,528 miles and counting) and our Hartge-…
MG SV-R

MG SV-R
How many Porsche 911s did they make last week? Have you any idea? Well, I'll tell you. Five hundred, give or take a few. How many SVs did MG manufactu…
Zonda Roadster v Lamborghini Murcielago Roadster: Duel In The Sun

Zonda Roadster v Lamborghini Murcielago Roadster: Duel In The Sun
We put the two most outrageous roadsters on the planet back to back on the roads of Tuscany in the ultimate test of open-topped supremacy
Caterham R300

Caterham R300
It hasn't taken me long to damage the Caterham. Or to be more exact, it hasn't taken long for the local council's decision to build the world's most r…
Jaguar S-type 4.2 V8 R

Jaguar S-type 4.2 V8 R
Jaguar is back in the headlines this month, and this time for the right reasons. Finally it has revealed the car it should have built at least five ye…
BMW 645Ci

BMW 645Ci
Last month I mentioned that while our 645 is great to own, it suffers from not doing anything outstandingly. Put another way, it lacks star quality. B…
Volkswagen Golf GTi DSG

Volkswagen Golf GTi DSG
Is VW's super-smooth, ultra-clever automated manual gearbox a step too far in a great GTi?
Honda S2000 GT

Honda S2000 GT
At last I have taken the Honda on track for a bit of a jolly. The rear was quite snappy, judging by chief photographer Morgan's 360deg spin on his fir…
Subaru Forester 2.5 XT

Subaru Forester 2.5 XT
When my new four-wheel-drive Forester 2.5 XT long-term test car was delivered to Evo Towers, the first fall of winter was swirling around outside my w…
Dodge SRT-10 v Mercedes SL55

Dodge SRT-10 v Mercedes SL55
The wicked Dodge SRT-10 meets its cousin, the Mercedes SL55 - two wildly different sides of the DaimlerChrysler family














