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FERRARI 12 CILINDRI
IT’S BEEN A WHILE, OVER A DECADE IN FACT, SINCE a Ferrari was crowned evo Car of the Year, and it was quite the crowning achievement with the 458 Speciale walking away with a unanimous victory in 2014, every judge placing it first. Can the 12 Cilindri break the long absence from the podium’s top step?
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January 2026
Evo UK
LAMBORGHINI REVUELTO
THE DISAPPOINTMENT OF LAMBORGHINI NOT BEING able to supply a Revuelto for 2024's eCoty was a bitter pill to swallow.
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January 2026
Evo UK
PORSCHE 911 GT3
OH HOW WE LAUGHED WHEN SOME WAG, MOST likely John Barker, asked who was going to have the first drive in this year's winner – and this as we assembled in the car park on the very first morning of the test. The nervous glances exchanged between those present suggested that he was probably only half joking, such is the 911's – and specifically the GT3's – hit rate at eCoty. Surely this isn't another slam dunk?
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January 2026
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BMW M2 CS
ARRIVING AT ECOTY WHEN YOUR PREDECESSOR IS A former winner takes the pressure every contender already faces and turns it up to 11. What's more, the M2 CS arrives at 2025's gathering with the added weight of reasserting M division honour after the M3 and M4 CS both fell short of delivering in 2023 and 2024 respectively (we'll draw a veil over the M4 CSL's performance in 2022).
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January 2026
Evo UK
McLaren GTS
Woking's grand touring supercar returns with a new name and more power, but does it still have a place?
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January 2026
Evo UK
JUDGE'S NOTES: JOHN BARKER
One drive in particular convinced Barker he was in the presence of true greatness
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January 2026
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SCOOP Dacia's £20k estate
COMING SOON Dacia intends to use its forthcoming C-Neo to populate an area of the market largely abandoned by rivals
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November 03, 2025
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The Autumn Budget explained what does it mean for motorists?
IN DETAIL Rachel Reeves has unveiled her financial plans for 2026 and beyond; we look into how they will affect drivers
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November 03, 2025
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Crucial new Cupra Raval EV prototype driven
We get an early taste of supermini based on new platform also set to underpin VW and Skoda models
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November 03, 2025
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Peugeot 308
FIRST DRIVE We get behind the wheel of a revised 308 with its new look and bigger batteries
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November 03, 2025
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BIG IN JAPAN GT-R'S LAST HURRAH
We take a blast in the final R35 version of Nissan's performance hero
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November 03, 2025
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PEUGEOT 5008
Our photographer has unique needs that the 5008 caters for superbly
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November 03, 2025
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USED BUYER'S GUIDE Citroen C5 X
FROM £13,500 Big French cars have never been sales hits in the UK and the C5 X is no exception. But we're big fans of the Citroen, which offers a lot of car for a modest outlay
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November 03, 2025
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AUDI RS3 SPORTBACK
JUST AS 2024'S TEST INCLUDED THE MAZDA MX-5 and McLaren Artura, both evolutions of existing models – and previous eCoty contenders – so Audi's formidable RS3 hyperhatch arrived in Digne-les-Bains with a handful of updates under its box-arched bodywork.
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January 2026
Evo UK
Porsche 911 Carrera (993)
A braking system service and upgrade quickly unravels into an expensive, full-system refresh
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January 2026
Evo UK
Mazda MX-5 RF 2.0 Homura
A refresher drive underscores the MX-5's enduring purity
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January 2026
Evo UK
Dacia Duster 130 4x4
The Duster's 'Eco Score' makes you a better driver (maybe)
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January 2026
Evo UK
ALPINE A110 R ULTIME
LET'S ADDRESS THE ELEPHANT IN THE ROOM straight off the bat: the A110 R Ultime costs more than 2023's evo Car and Track Car of the Year, the Porsche 911 GT3 RS. For a flyweight with a 1.8-litre, four-cylinder turbocharged engine this will be, to some people, a price tag the diminutive French wonder simply can't pull off. Good job that eCoty measures a car purely on its ability then. Over the course of the next few days we'll be able to deliver the definitive verdict on the most extreme and focused road car that Alpine has ever produced.
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January 2026
Evo UK
JUDGE'S NOTES: JAMES TAYLOR
A golden year for performance cars, reckons Taylor
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January 2026
Evo UK
JUDGE'S NOTES: YOUSUF ASHRAF
His first eCoty, so what did Ashraf make of it all?
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January 2026
Evo UK
FOOT ON THE GAS: HARNESSING HYDROGEN
Bosch targets Le Mans with hydrogen-fuelled Maserati-engined race car
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January 2026
Evo UK
ZeroNine Design Ford Focus ST
Can a new tuning house finally unlock the Mk4 Focus ST's potential and make it truly desirable?
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January 2026
Evo UK
Hyundai powers onward
State-of-the-art test facilities will speed development of Europe-specific models
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January 2026
Evo UK
Skoda Superb Sleeper & Mercedes-Benz C63 AMG
Our 470bhp Skoda takes on a similarly potent AMG classic for an unlikely super-estate showdown
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January 2026
Evo UK
CHEVROLET CORVETTE E-RAY
THERE ARE TWO HYBRID MODELS IN 2025's CAR OF the Year and both from unlikely sources, though I'd wager the American muscle car is the more unlikely of the two. The C8 'Vette is far from new, but its official arrival in Europe is, and while the Z06 offers the greater firepower, it's the more affordable E-Ray that's expected to be the biggest seller. All things being relative of course, because it still costs north of £150,000.
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January 2026
Evo UK
LAND ROVER DEFENDER OCTA
NO, ONE OF THE CREW CARS HAS NOT ACCIDENTALLY been added to the voting list, and neither have we taken leave of our senses; this really is a Land Rover Defender and it really is on evo Car of the Year.
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January 2026
Evo UK
ASTON MARTIN VALKYRIE AMR-LMΗ
Aston Martin brought the noise to Le Mans – and won plenty of hearts
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January 2026
Evo UK
FAST FLEET - BMW M5 Touring
It offered immense pace and impressive tech, but it also had a lot to prove. After 11,000 miles, did this divisive M car win us over?
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January 2026
Evo UK
Hyundai Ioniq 6 N
With 641bhp and tech adopted from the acclaimed Ioniq 5 N, could this EV saloon pose a threat to its ICE rivals?
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January 2026
Evo UK
MASERATI GT2 STRADALE
LIKE THE BMW M2 CS, THE MASERATI ARRIVES at eCoty '25 with the pressure of a recent victory, although in the Maser's case this is a faster, harder, more focused iteration of 2022's MC20 rather than a direct replacement. The GT2 Stradale is Maserati taking a play from the Porsche book of model evolution.
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