Subaru vs Evo! – Grand Tour Track Battle

The ultimate performance car face-off, re-ignited after 20 years! Izzy, Ben & Mike take to the track to settle which car is best – Martin the Grand Tour Subaru, or the recently forged Mitsubishi Lancer Evo VIII. Let battle commence!

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00:00 Drag race!
00:35 The story of the Subaru and the Evo
01:17 Izzy drives Martin
03:43 Izzy drives the Evo
07:45 Mike drives Martin
11:50 Mike drives the Evo
15:12 Lap times! Evo vs Martin
19:05 The verdict...

[hpodsx]

No wonder she was scared to put her foot down on accelerator pedal - she's got accident-prone Richard Hammond genes.
She is smart girl.

[eurasianlynx]

I don't care who wins, I just want to see both to live on and be seen on the roads.

[crisantogarcia]

I like this, getting a non “enthusiast” take on cars is fun to watch. Probably the most accurate take.

[webbles]

Part way through while watching Ben drive, I pictured the white helmet and how many times I've seen him before. Finally seeing that intensity we couldn't see for so many memorable laps made me happy and sad about what a missed opportunity he was outside of the costume. What a legend.

[Alex-Walker]

😂😂 Ben yanking on the handbrake mid corner. Absolutely no fear

[purdmn]

NGL this was the one thing i loved about Top Gear was watching Stig do a Burning Lap with their cars its just so much fun to watch

[BagheeraRaceGamer]

"Wha-... what's going on here? Why am I on the passanger seat?" 😂😂😂😂😂😂🤣🤣🤣🤣

[MrSatnavatron]

I was a huge evo fan growing up but I can appreciate both now

[Umar-gwfy]

Anybody whos driven both will tell you as a daily the subaru is better but for a b road basher the evo is better

[senseofthecommonman]

I went from an M3 to my Evo and it was interesting to note the difference in reaction from other road users.
There were times you could almost feel the hate of some people towards a BMW driver and yet in the Evo I would receive waves or nods from other drivers and people would often comment favourably at the petrol station or car parks. Never seemed to generate any resentment.

[mitul]

The way Ben drove that Subaru was shivering

[OldWhitebelly]

Hamsterette's transformation from her first lap to her last was impressive. And enjoying the passenger seat while Ben drive...VERY impressive.

[LordJobby]

Absolutely loved seeing these two battle against one another!

Get Izzy on more presenting videos for this channel! It's a breath of fresh air seeing and listening to someone who isn't completely TV and media trained.

[LRKIRBY]

I love how Izzy is just slating the intake on the evo while Mike is loving it 😂😂

[JustKicks]

Watching Ben around the track is AWESOME

[maxtorque]

For their entire product lifetimes, these cars were basically just seperated by their engine position and layout. The Scoob was always fighting physics with it's high mounted long engine slung out front, whereas the Evo with it's short transverse low engine was an inherently much better balanced car front to rear. Having worked at prodrive for 6 years during the height of these cars reign, both on the WRC and road car projects, with the scoob you could choose between a nice handling balance OR max LatG, whereas with the Evo you could find a setup to do both. Basically the Scoob always understeered if you set it up for max LatG, which drivers hated, and this really was why it was never a very successful tarmac car, as opposited to on loose surfaces with more low gear, low friction accels where the mass distribution worked more in it's favour. Over the years and models, FHI threw more and more tech at the scoob chassis to try to help things out, but at the end of the day, you just can't beat the laws of physics. Evo for me, every ;-)

[eddiehp]

“The subaru is more reliable and easier to work on ” vs an evo is utter madness

[GamerGabbar]

Nice to see the baby Hamster going the way of the Hamster

[MattWiggyWiggins]

Watching Ben go around the track makes me so happy. Him going off road in the Evo just screamed Gambon Corner...

[HiryPppins]

Seeing Ben buzzing was awesome. Think it’s the first time I’ve seen him smile? 🤣