EVO’S IMMINENT 25TH ANNIVERSARY HAS GOT me reminiscing about the magazine’s formative years. Between 1998 and 2001 we spent much of our time heading south through Europe, aiming for the Côte d’Azur, or crossing the Alps and dropping down through the lakes and into Italy for various launches, factory visits and drive stories. These were happy, innocent days, free from the pressures of feeding a website and social media. Better still, traffic policing was far more analogue than digital, which fostered the unshakeable belief that, once on
