Road testing by numbers

THE PLAN WAS TO TAKE EIGHT cars to 2025’s evo Car of the Year. They’d be the very best cars we’ve driven during the last 12 months; the cars that made us smile, thrilled us and engaged us. The cars th

RATINGS = Thrill-free zone = Tepid = Interesting = Seriously good = A truly great car = new entry this month. Cars in italics are no longer on sale. Issue no. is for our most recent major test of the

Autocar’s history of empirical road testing is the longest in the world. For more than a century, we have been verifying, scrutinising, describing and illustrating new cars in unparalleled detail. Dri

DESPITE A LARGER THAN ANTICIPATED FIELD FOR THIS YEAR’S eCoty, there were always going to be cars left behind that might have been considered shoo-ins for inclusion. Chief amongst these is BMW’s new M

Our first contender to fall by the wayside is the Audi. Yousuf was impressed with how the RS3 performed against such a standout field and was surprised at just how good it felt regardless of which big

PERFORMANCE: This is the manufacturer’s claimed acceleration time for a car, and is measured from 0-60mph or 0-62mph (0-100km/h), in seconds. ECONOMY/EMISSIONS/RANGE: Combined WLTP economy in miles pe