Motor Events
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Performance COTY
Why the GR Yaris is one of the most bespoke cars at PCOTY 2022
It's expensive for a Yaris, but how many other performance cars at this pricepoint sit on their own unique platform?
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Innovative tech is buried inside Hyundai’s i20 N powertrain
Baby N gains next-generation Continuously Variable Valve Duration system that adds grunt and aids efficiency
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Using facts and figures to explain the BMW 128ti’s strengths and weaknesses
Delving into the Sports Car of the Year data offers up interesting answers
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Missed out on the limited production Boxster 25 Years? Here's how to build your own
DIY Anniversary Special: Tick the right option boxes, and you can build a Boxster remarkably similar to our 4th-place PCOTY finisher
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How the 2022 Performance Car of the Year field compares to our 2008 event
We take a look back at the last time PCOTY graced Phillip Island
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How the Volkswagen Golf GTI’s pace shocked everybody at SCOTY 2022
Venerable hot hatch proves faster than performance icons of the past
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Experience MOTOR’s Performance Car of the Year 2022 through the camera lens
MOTOR’s talented photography team smashed PCOTY 2022 out of the park – here are our favourite shots
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Want to perform the perfect drift? Buy a BMW M3
M Division’s Drift Analyser rates your slide and gives you tips to improve your form
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2022 Subaru BRZ: how fast is fast enough?
The new and improved BRZ posted some impressive figures during PCOTY testing but some still argue that it's not a sports car. We look at the evidence
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Is the Jaguar F-Type’s old V6 really just a V8 with two cylinders blanked?
We uncover whether the dearly departed AJ126 engine is just a cut-down supercharged Jaguar V8
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The tricky diff that helps the Ford Focus ST fight torque steer
Ford’s hot hatch hero uses a clever diff that stops wheelspin and torque steer before it even occurs
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Behind the scenes of Performance Car of the Year 2022
Hail, a cracked windscreen, a software update and Omicron... Nothing gets in the way of Performance Car of the Year
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This neat suspension trick allows the Skoda Octavia RS to be a comfortable family car and surprising track weapon
The Czech wagon has a suspension system that you can really geek out on
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What makes the Mazda ND MX-5's development story special
Subtract and add lightness: how Mazda undid two generations of weight gain
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Performance COTY
The Lamborghini Huracan Evo is more than an Audi R8 in disguise
An Audi R8 in disguise? PCOTY proves the Lamborghini Huracan Evo is so much more than that
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MOTOR’s Performance Car of the Year 2022: the track test
One of the best race tracks in the world and a field bursting with talent – game on
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Performance COTY
Your chance to play data analyst with the MOTOR Performance Car of the Year VBOX files
For the first time in PCOTY history, we are giving you the change to play with all our performance data from Phillip Island
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MOTOR’s Performance Car of the Year 2022: the road test
With split awards for 2022, this year’s PCOTY road testing demanded some special treatment
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Performance COTY
Video: MOTOR Performance Car of the Year 2022 winner revealed
And the winner of MOTOR’s Performance Car of the Year 2022 title is…
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PCOTY 2022: Lap times and corner speeds
We breakdown exactly where each of our 18 competitors made, and lost, time around Phillip Island raceway
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There’s more to the Porsche Taycan Turbo S than raw numbers
We dive into the electric Porsche’s mechanical gubbins to see how it makes the most of those crazy power figures
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The data behind Performance Car of the Year 2022
The eight greatest performance cars of the last 12 months race against the stopwatch
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The data behind Sports Car of the Year 2022
We run the hard numbers to see which small player packs the biggest punch
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How Alpina gave the BMW M3’s engine an entirely new character
The shared internals are the same, but how the BMW M3 and Alpina B3’s engine’s perform are drastically different