Sentences with phrase «evo car of the year»

Many of those have been brutal, too, in the hands of road testers in big group tests (including evo Car of the Year) and on trackdays in my spare time, including one at Belgium's tricky Spa circuit.

No fewer than 16 have featured in evo Car of the Year since 1998 - nine have won the title — and many in between have grabbed the attention (and quite often hearts) of evo's road testers.

It may have finished last in evo Car of the Year 2015, but that it was even included in such a competitive year is a worthy accolade in itself.

alfa 4c - so good it finished last, beaten by a mini in evo car of the year 2013.

As it's name suggests, evo Car of the Year is the highlight of our calendar, and has been since the magazine was founded.

Hardly an evo Car of the Year contender, but the exponential rise in Korean car quality over the last decade means Hyundai's mid-sized hatchback is now a very plausible Ford Focus and VW Golf rival.

This year's evo Car of the year battle once again comprises - as you'll discover over the course of the next week or so - an eclectic collection of vehicles, from hot hatches all the way up to supercars.

On the run back from the north - east of Scotland on evo Car of the Year we averaged 22mpg, which isn't to be sniffed at considering an Aventador SV returned exactly half that.

The the work of Porsche's Motorsport division, it was nothing short of brilliant and went on to claim evo Car of the Year honours in 2015.

It could only be evo Car of the Year

The i8 is significant not just for its ability to run on electric power for limited distances, but also for the way it looks and drives - the latter of which appealed enough to secure it a spot in evo Car of the year 2014.

Join Jethro Bovingdon as he takes us through the eight cars all in with a shot at the evo Car of the Year 2013 title.

And both also stood proud on the podium in their respective evo Car of the Year contests.

The 718 Cayman S develops the same amount of torque as the sublime, evo Car of the year - winning Cayman GT4, but the GT4 didn't reach its peak figure until the engine was spinning at 4750rpm.

It's evo Car of the Year 2015.

The headline twin test of evo Car of the Year 2012 is a battle you're unlikely to see anywhere else.

Twelve months, hundreds of test cars, hundreds of thousands of miles driven — all whittled down to ten class winners and one evo Car of the Year.

I often get asked what my favourite car is, and since evo Car of the Year 2015 my answer has always been the McLaren 675LT.

Perhaps its greatest trip was its visit to the Isle of Skye for evo Car of the Year 2009 (issue 138).

evo Car of the Year 2012 starts right here.

Forza Horizon 2's unique selling point runs something like the introduction to an evo Car of the Year test.

Welcome to evo Car of the Year 2011, the most exciting date in our calendar.

Even more significantly for this magazine, however, is that both have been crowned evo Car of the Year winners.

The show runs on January 8 - 11 with static displays and a Live Action Arena where recent evo Car of the Year winner, the Ferrari 458 Speciale, will make a glorious racket alongside Lamborghini's Huracán, the plug - in hybrid BMW i8 and Vühl's 05 track car.

evo Car of the year is our annual celebration of the best drivers» cars on sale - and in the latest issue of evo magazine, on sale now, you'll find out which of those cars has wowed us the most.

Even more interestingly, it's nearly five grand more than a V12 Vantage, the current star of the Aston range and a popular car in our evo Car of the Year shootout.

Note: evo Car of the Year was filmed on roads closed and marshalled by the local police.

There's more to the latest issue than evo Car of the year, of course.

The more extreme, harder and lighter 597bhp Speciale edition will go down in evo history having claimed the evo Car of the Year title in 2014.

At the time of launch, the BMW 1M Coupe saw off the Porsche Cayman R, Nissan 370Z and Audi TT RS in a group test, while it finished impressively well in our 2011 evo Car of the Year contest, sharing the podium with the McLaren 12C and Porsche 911 GT3 RS 4.0, putting paid to the Cayman R (again) as well as the Lamborghini Aventador, Ferrari FF, Jaguar XKR - S and its recently launched big brother, the BMW M5.

Not exact matches

Would like to see this and the 718 Cayman S (a brilliant chassis, a true wolf in sheeps clothing) in the upcoming EVO performance car of the year - in fact a manual base «vanilla» Carrera also may make a pretty good showing, far better than M2 / M3 / M4 etc..

You might remember the Broadley from evo's 2014 Track Car of the year event, where it scored a podium position with the Porsche 911 GT3 and Ariel Atom 3.5 R.

If it's lacking something it's more of the character and playfulness of the Rallye — the Mini's handling is just a touch inert — but it's still a cracking little entry - level evo car, and on this evidence one that wears its years well.

It won our car of the year title in 2014 and we almost declared it the best car we had ever tested in evo's first 200 issues.

It's just another perfect snapshot of a perfect journey, and evo's idea of a proper party to celebrate 50 years of the maddest and most extraordinary car manufacturer there's ever been.

Looking very similar to the Audi Q8 concept car first revealed at the Detroit motor show last year, the production Q8 will share much of the concept's basic proportions and detailing while riding on the same MLB - Evo platform that also underpins the Q7.

And far from being a basic Clio tweaked for racing purposes, the Junior cars are identical to the full Clio Cup cars you'll have seen trading paint as a BTCC support series (and seen in evo's 2014 Track car of the year test).

The full fat Litchfield GT86 featured in evo track car of year, equipped with a raft of suspension upgrades and most notably a supercharger — not the only forced induction route there are turbo kits too.

Chris Harris tests the LP670 - 4 on video during Car of the Year Read David Vivian's evo first drive of the Lambo Murcielago SV Our video of the Lamborghini Miura SV and the LP670 - 4 SV (make sure you watch all 4 parts) Read Henry's comparison of two of the best ever supercars Read and comment on our blog on the SV — best noise ever?

evo appeared too late to judge the car at launch, but the V6 featured in evo's very first Car of the Year competition, and in August 1999 we praised the V6 engine, ultra-quick steering and strong traction in a coupe group test - narrowly edged by the similarly dramatic Fiat Coucar at launch, but the V6 featured in evo's very first Car of the Year competition, and in August 1999 we praised the V6 engine, ultra-quick steering and strong traction in a coupe group test - narrowly edged by the similarly dramatic Fiat CouCar of the Year competition, and in August 1999 we praised the V6 engine, ultra-quick steering and strong traction in a coupe group test - narrowly edged by the similarly dramatic Fiat Coupe.

The competition version of the car will see action at this year's N24, with evo contributor Marino Franchitti behind the wheel.

Given that the previous GT featured one of the most composed and communicative chassis in its class (enough to land it the title of evo's Car of the year in 2005), the new, lighter car has a lot to live up Car of the year in 2005), the new, lighter car has a lot to live up car has a lot to live up to.

Also making its race debut this year will be Ferrari's 488 GTE and the spectacular looking Ford GT race car, which features in issue 219 of evo magazine.

The SV is one of our favourite current supercars, and it did rather well at evo's 2009 Car of the Year contest.

John Maxwell - For John it was quite a step up from a mk2 Cavalier to an 8 - valve Integrale, both in terms of performance and running costs — during six and a half years of ownership he spent # 13,500, and although he has now sold the car, he's currently on the hunt for an Evo II.

Regular evo readers will know all about it from our 2015 track car of the year test, and when we raced it in the 24 hours of the Nurburgring in issue 218.

McLaren Automotive has defined itself as one of the greats, and in the 720S it has created the best of the best: evo's Car of the Year.

which I think was a huge element of evo's own best drivers cars of all time feature about ten years ago including that magical old fashioned bonus called steering feel, those with it did exceptionally well... please evo, you are a magazine written by drivers for drivers.

You can check out video and images of each car individually using the navigation panel on the right - and you can read the full story of the year's ultimate test in evo issue 164, on sale now!

We've driven the new Renaultsport Megane 250 Cup in Issue 138 of evo, our bumper Car of the Year edition, which is on sale from Weds November 11.