I WANT TO BUY A... FOUR-WHEEL- DRIVE SUPERCAR

It may be slippery outside, but that’s no rea son to leave the supercar at home. The evo team choose some suitable used all- wheel drive options

James Disdale: If you’re going to have a four-wheel-drive supercar, you should really go the whole hog. So a Bugatti EB110 (above) it is, then. There’s something about its combination of 3.5 litres, 12 cylinders and four turbos that I find impossible to resist. Not to mention the square-edged styling that’s a pure slice of ’90s heaven. Finally, and perhaps crucially, it has illuminated EB110 logos set into the B-pillars, and that makes it perhaps the coolest supercar ever. They’re not cheap, though: expect to pay well over half-a-million pounds for one…

Adam Towler: I’ll swerve the exotic stuff and go for a tidy 996-generation Porsche 911 Turbo (above middle). It’s not, perhaps, the bargain it once was, but with prices starting below £30,000 it’s still decent value for money. Why a 996? Because it’s the last really subtle 911 Turbo, able – in the right colour – to still blend relatively easily into traffic thanks to the lack of anything too aggressive on its body. It’s also still modern enough to drive every day without compromise, but refreshingly bereft of all the electronic in-car stuff that’s supposed to make our lives easier. There’s a ‘Mezger’ slung out back, too, which if looked after should be capable of 200,000 miles plus, and its more linear torque delivery makes it an easier car in slippery conditions than its 997-based successor, aided by plenty of traction and fine brakes.

Richard Meaden: Hmm, an all-wheeldrive supercar you say? Forget the Italian stuff, especially if the plan is to use it outside of spring and summer. They just don’t like bathing in road crud. No, I’d go for an Audi R8. Most likely a V10 Plus (above right). Amazingly there was one of the nine stick-shift cars to come to the UK for sale when I had a quick trawl, but it’s much easier to find a regular R8 V10 manual. The motor is stonking and the chassis is so sweetly balanced you’d swear it was rear-drive. Yet there’s tons of traction when you need it. Around £60k would buy you a cracker.

Stuart Gallagher: It’s mad, bad and, in the wrong circumstances, dangerous to know, but the draw of a Lamborghini Aventador SV (top) is impossible to ignore. The seven-speed gearbox may not be the latest piece of technological cog-swapping wizardry, but it does have a 6.5-litre naturally aspirated V12, 740bhp and 509lb ft of torque to deal with.

For such a physically big car it’s not as unwieldy as you’d expect, and there are times when you get so in the flow with an Aventador that its bulk is forgotten as you’re sucked into the intoxicating mix of thrills, excitement and the ever-so terrifying nature of Lambo’s beast.