Evo Magazine, April 2000 Issue

Evo Magazine, April 2000 Issue

No. of Pages --- Good
Condition -------- 170
Price -------------- £2.00

Magazine Contents

Cover Story: Dodge Viper GTS-R - Chrysler has a habit of turning concept cars into production realities, and the word on the street is that something very like the sensational Viper GTS-R will be with us in 2002. evo climbs behind the wheel for a closer look

Group Test - S6 v M5 v XJR-R - BMW's M5 has long been the king of super saloons but is the current V8 invincible? We pitch it against Audi's sharp new four-wheel-drive S6 and Jaguar's uprated XJR-R

News - Morgan reveals its radical new aluminium road car, the BMW V8-engined Aero 8, BMW releases more details of the new M3, Vauxhall tells us all about its Elise-baiting VX220 and Lotus announces a 158bhp Elise

Driven - Richard Meaden tries to tame Marcos's wild, 500bhp Mantis GT, John Barker discovers if a V6 makes the Mercedes SLK a driver's car, Brett Fraser finds the Tiptronic Porsche 911 Turbo is still very much a driver's car, and Stuart Gallagher tries to fathom the M5-alike 528i Sport

Mac 5 - The winner of our Readers' Car of the Century competition gets five laps of the Silverstone GP circuit in an ex-Le Mans GTR version of your number one car, the McLaren Fl

evo-mail - Differing views on lan Fraser's assertion that the Government's plans for satellite speed control won't work. You say the Toyota MR2 and TVR Tuscan both fell out of the ugly tree and hit all the branches on the way down, and a foreign correspondent reckons he's found the world's worst road

Columns - David Tremayne, evo's new Formula 1 writer, warns that Fl's big cheeses could take the sport out of Europe if bullied by Brussels. The award-winning Ian Fraser questions the credibility of award ceremonies, David Williams wonders whether it's time to scale-down world rally cars and BMW 3l8i drivers should skip Bill Thomas's column this month

Lotus 340R - Lotus's 340R is finally here, but does it live up to all the hype? Richard Meaden tries it on the road and track, Harry Metcaife tries before he buys and Roger Green takes a look from a Caterham owner's perspective

Mercedes-Benz Vision SLR - The SLR may be three years away from production, but Mercedes-Benz has allowed a handful of journalists to drive the show car. John Barker wonders why

Classic SLR - Only two of these Mercedes SLR coupes were built, and neither was sold to the public, lan Fraser is one of a privileged few to have driven the l8omph coupe

BMW Z6 vs Aston Martin DB7 Vantage Volante - Did Bond make the right choice by opting for BMW's new Z8 roadster? Evo's resident oo agent, John Barker, pits the aluminium-bodied Beemer against Aston Martin's DB7 V12 Vantage Volante and finds himself occasionally shaken and certainly stirred

Panis and Button - They were both offered the Williams seat alongside Ralf Schumacher. Olivier Panis turned it down for a testing role with McLaren, while 20-year-old jenson Button seized the opportunity of a life time. David Tremayne asks them why they made their choices

'70s super saloons - Big-engined super-saloons are nothing new, and Martin Buckley should know because he's owned a few. Here he takes a look at a trio of '70s thunder-saloons

Subscribe! - Everyone loves a bargain but not many come in 12 parts and last a whole year. Save money, save shoe leather and save the planet (probably) by subscribing

Buying Guide: Fiat Coupe - If it's style and performance-per-pound you're after, you can't do much better than the Fiat Coupe. Roger Green navigates you around the murky second-hand waters

evo racefleet - We're supporting a number of race teams in the most exciting championships this season. The first of evo's adopted racers, the PK Sport Porsche 911 GT3-R, kicks off the year in fine style at the Rolex Daytona 24 Hours

Long term tests - This month we say a fond farewell to the Impreza STi IV and Caterham Seven, and a cheery hello to the Mondeo ST200

Directory - From Abbey Motorsportto Zip Kart, you'll find practically every number you'll ever need right here

Freezeframe - It certainly wasn't a classic Bond movie but The Man With The Golden Gun featured the most exciting Bond car stunt ever. Probably.

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