Eye Candy of the Year

Readers of this site will be familiar with that Mas du Clos circuit though the various pictures and videos from the guys at Track4Fun in Italy. It's a fabulous looking place and no wonder EVO used it to make pretty pictures for their European Car of the Year issue.

You all buy EVO I'm certain so you know who won. If you don't....well, go and buy EVO!

I had to laugh when they describe all the cars as having been "quite amazing on the road too.." while showing a Lotus 2Eleven but in any case, enjoy the eye candy.



Evo's European Car of the Year from Axis of Oversteer on Vimeo.

Holy Smoke!

Let's take a break from the depressing Formula 1 debacle, here is an entertaining video by the guys at Autocar: the 10 best drivers cars of 2007.

There are some odd choices included in the test (and yes I cut one of them out as just too boring) but that's cool enough, after having briefly driven a Mercedes C350 Sport I do agree that it's quite a nice handling car.

The conclusions leave me a little perplexed, sure 4WD is easier in the rain but to conclude that the 997 is "C-R-A-P" on a wet track says more about your driving "usefulness" than the car. Stee and I were both schooled by CG driving at Watkins Glen in the wet on shaved Toyo RA1... we could not keep up with his 997S at all, especially coming out of corners.

The cars in the test are

• Mercedes Benz SLK55 Black
• Ford Mondeo (that's the one I spared you)
• Mercedes Benz C350
  
• BMW M3 (e92, V8)
• Porsche Cayman S
  
• Lamborghini LP640
• Porsche 997 GT3
• Lotus 2-eleven
• Audi R8
  

Hey, in the end, it is just a bunch of guys talking cars at the bar like many of us would and the trashing of the SLK55 black is pretty funny. It's all good and Chris Harris has just the right amount of entertaining smugness while still convincing you he is still an actual car guy, not a pod.

Finally, say what you will about the new e92 M3, but without those magnificent, Wagnerian tire smoking powerslides you would have had no video here!

(ps they made a mistake on the graphics at the end...the MB c350 did NOT, repeat did not come in 3rd in wet track times, it's good but it's not THAT good!)

Tracktard car test

Five cars you could move to the UK and legally commute in depending on your tolerance for looking like a dork, driving with a helmet on the street.

Autocar comes to a foregone conclusion in this test of vehicles which loosely fall under the category of "cars". Looks like two brilliant, one great, one "eh" and one joke....

• Ariel Atom
• Brooke 260 Double-R
  
• Caterham Superlight R-400
• Elfin MS-8 Clubman
  
• Lotus 2-Eleven

Tracktard's holiday from AxisOfOversteer.com and Vimeo.