PH Annual Service | MST Evo-X Carbon Fibre

Last year Bicester was the location for MST's wildest creation yet; now the Mk2 Evo-X is back in black...

By Matt Bird / Saturday, 9 August 2025 / Loading comments

You’ll remember the MST Evo-X. All of the Escort-shaped creations coming out of North Wales recently are fantastic, but the X really raised the bar; paying homage to the X-Pack Mk2s of the '70s and shown to the world at Annual Service last year, it represented the ultimate MST: more than 360hp from a Millington Diamond, AP Racing brakes, independent rear suspension and more.

Well, we thought it was the ultimate. Turns out MST had something a little extra up its sleeve, and that’s the Mk2 Evo-X Carbon. Which in the fullness of time will be very much as it sounds: where there were steel panels before, there is now, as you can see, glorious composite, which is said to be 75 per cent lighter. And the Evo-X was hardly going to be a heavy car to begin with. MST says it’s taken more than a year of design and engineering to get an Mk2 to this point, creating the moulds and getting the panels to fit. It believes that the resulting Evo-X ‘can be tailored to suit any enthusiast - whether for the road, the race track, or hill climbing.’

To that end, the same level of configurability will be offered to Carbon Fibre customers as with any other MST commission. So a manual or a sequential can be paired to that 2.8-litre, four-cylinder screamer, and suspension can come from Bilstein, Tractive or Reiger (talk about a holy trinity of providers); an Evo-X could be built entirely with road use in mind, or buyers could go full retro racer if desired. And presumably with the carbon very heavily PPF’d whatever you choose to do.

Though just a shell for now, the rest of the Carbon Fibre package will follow the template laid out by the ‘standard’ Evo-X, including the droop snoot front (complete in you know what), 17-inch wheels ‘for a perfect balance of style and performance’, plus an interior decked out in carbon with Recaro seats. Not that anyone will care about the interior, when the outside looks like this. Be sure to check it out if you’re at Bicester on Saturday!