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Produced by world-class motoring journalists and racers, evo communicates the raw emotion of owning, driving and testing the world’s greatest performance cars. Bringing together informative car reviews, vivid photography, exciting track tests and dramatic drive stories in glorious landscapes, evo is considered the bible for performance car enthusiasts.

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Ferrari849 Testarossa Spider • The 849 Testarossa is the pinnacle of Ferrari’s series production cars, and a big step on from the SF90. Does losing the roof make it even more compelling?

Porsche 911 GT3 S/C • Could a soft-top version of the 911 GT3 possibly be as pure and focused as the coupe? Sceptics will say not, but our first taste suggests the GT3 magic is still firmly intact

Denza Z • BYD sub-brand Denza is taking aim at the 911 with this all-electric coupe. 1582bhp should help

THE OTHER NEW McLAREN • McLaren’s W1 hypercar may have been hogging the headlines lately, but don’t underestimate the 788HS, a sensational 777bhp send-off for the 720/750S series

BACK TO THE FUTURE • Ferrari CEO Benedetto Vigna believes the key to innovation is to ‘look to the past with the eyes of the future’. And there’s no better example than the new 12 Cilindri Manuale

NAKED AMBITION • The next A110 is going electric, but Alpine insists it will retain the lightness, balance and agility that defined its acclaimed predecessor. We inspect the platform that will underpin it to find out how

RUNNING OF THE BULL • The 1200bhp, 900kg Red Bull RB17 ran in public for the first time at the Goodwood Festival of Speed, wowing the crowd with the sound of its 15,000rpm V10. We asked technical director Rob Gray how the £5m, track-only hypercar is progressing

THE THINKING TYRE • Pirelli’s sensor-equipped Cyber Tyre gives a car’s safety systems unprecedented insight into available grip. We try it

PIRELLIP ZERO TROFEO RS • New RS version of the Trofeo promises to take the P Zero to a new level

TRIPLE WHAMMY • Three axial-flux motors give Mercedes-AMG’s CLA 600bhp-plus as the junior supersaloon war hots up

DIRK SCHOYSMAN • From competing against Senna in Formula Ford to honing generations of Skyline GT-Rs and others, Schoysman has enjoyed a rich and varied career

RICHARD MEADEN • Driving this issue’s NSX took Meaden right back to his earliest road-testing days

RICHARD PORTER • Naming and shaming Britain’s Worst Service Station would be TV gold, says Porter

1990s THE SUPERCAR • We’re tracing the evolution of the supercar, from its pre-’60s roots right up to the modern day. This month we’ve reached the ’90s, and it’s a decade of change. Angular wedges are out, soft edges are in, and the supercar has diversified into different sub-genres. There are new players in the game, from new continents, and new technologies have entered the field. This was the era when the supercar changed course forever

BACK IN THE REAL WORLD: FORD MONDEO Mk1 • The 1990s saw the mass market car catch the exotics in terms of engineering and dynamics, none more so than Ford’s Mondeo

’90s SUPERCAR CONCEPTS • Concept supercars of the 1990s weren’t just dream machines; they previewed tomorrow’s technology, design and ambition – with wildly varying success

THE DAWN OF THE HYPERCAR • It wasn’t billed as such at the time, but the McLaren F1 was so far ahead of the supercars of the day that it can now be seen as the first of a new breed: the hypercar

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TURNING POINT • Has Lotus finally produced an Emira with the dynamic chops to take on the very bestfrom Porsche? We sample the new Emira 420 Sport on both road and track

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