Ecoty 2023

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

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

T HE CAR PARK AT OUR HOTEL HAS TAKEN ON THE role of a truck stop. It’s early Monday morning and what would ordinarily be a sleepy nook behind a retail park in southeastern France has become a temporar

MY LAST ECOTY WAS JUST under ten years ago. How different it all is today. Out of the dozen cars this year, only one has a manual gearbox and two have hybrid powertrains. Plenty of food for thought he

TWO ECOTY FIRSTS THIS YEAR. Though the McLaren Artura Spider came very close last year, the Revuelto is the first hybrid to win. And though variants of the Gallardo and Huracán have finished second (a