New evo podcast: episode 25 available now
Watch and listen to the evo podcast for insights, commentary and untold stories about the world of performance cars from the team behind the magazine
The evo podcast is available to listen to on all major platforms, and welcomes guests from across evo’s storied past and all echelons of the performance car and motorsport industry, in conversation talking all things The Thrill of Driving.
evo’s Editor-In-Chief Stuart Gallagher is joined by Deputy Editor and regular co-host James Taylor, with the magazine’s Founding Editors Dickie Meaden and John Barker among the special guests joining them to discuss the world of performance cars.
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Tune in for plenty of off-the-cuff insights and candid commentary from some of the most respected voices in the industry on all the hot-button issues that affect car enthusiasts.
From exactly what the latest and greatest performance cars – from hypercars, supercars and restomods to supersaloons and hot hatches – are like to drive, to electrification, electric vehicle proliferation and how and whether they can be fun. You’ll also get the occasional look behind the curtain at how evo magazine is put together each month and behind-the-scenes anecdotes from across its illustrious 25-year history.
Episode 25: Driving the Ferrari F80
In episode 25 of the evo podcast, deputy editor James Taylor stands in for editor-in-chief Stuart Gallagher as host, joining regular evo contributor Henry Catchpole and evo editor-at-large Dickie Meaden for a debrief following our first drive of the Ferrari F80. Many feared Ferrari’s latest flagship would fall flat for having half the cylinders of its predecessor and a greatly reduced aural presence from the outside. As a thing to drive however, Dickie finds it as compelling as any other of Ferrari’s fastest and rarest – uniquely so, for the way you build up to extract as much of its astonishing performance as possible from the hybrid powertrain, AWD drivetrain and aero platforms on track. Short of falling flat, the V6 impresses and thrills, its personality every bit as prominent as its technical achievement.
The team also discusses a very different sort of V6 hypercar, the Praga Bohema. Here is a car whose Nissan powertrain and relative brand obscurity betray the indulgent and exotic detailing, if not the blistering performance, that awaits those who will entertain it, and for more than half the price of that Ferrari to boot…
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