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Table of Contents
5 Agenda Maestro makes it – and there's more good news
6 Sir! Tempers flare over our GBU section, lately revised, there are bouquets and brickbats for Porsche and Maestros receive a thrashing in Kenya, where else?
19 Frontline The latest reports from our roving four
29 Oracle All that’s happening at home and abroad
46 Britain’s 160mph GT Scorchers! The writing’s on the wall for Modena as Jaguar and Aston Martin prepare two dramatic new coupes for the late ’80s
52 Maestro Master-Stroke! We put Maestro – BL’s new life-or-death family saloon – through the wringer and discover both its strong and weak points
57 Banging the Octagon Drum To the burgeoning new MG family comes another member – MG Maestro. It looks all right, but has it got the power to match?
59 If Ford built the Maestro . . . the outcome would have been very different. To Ford, BL’s car is too big, too heavy, too complex and too costly to produce
60 SCOOP! Beyond Maestro – spy pictures and details of LM11, the vitally important four-door follow-up to the Maestro hatchback, due for launch early ’84
62 NEWCOMERS: Ford RS1600i Racing Escort Alfasud Ti Green Cloverleaf Super Sud Peugeot 205 GTI terroriser Opel Senator, Monza more style Land Rover One Ten New legs, creature comforts
68 Modena’s Monster Lamborghini’s awe-inspiring, £30,000 answer to two Range Rovers, the 4x4 LMA, packs 330bhp from Countach engine, tops 115mph
72 Long Road to London A Range Rover took John and Lucy Hemsley 12,000 miles from Capetown to London. Phil Llewellin charts their extraordinary journey
78 Unfinished Symphony The saddest thing about Aston Martin’s Lagonda is that it could be so much better – if only they would spend some money on it
80 Determination Rules The men behind Aston – Victor Gauntlett and recently appointed MD Bill Archer – reveal their hopes and plans for the company’s future
84 Guarding Aston’s Traditions William Towns, who designed the Lagonda and the forthcoming two-plus-two coupe talks about his past, present and future
88 GIANT TEST Ford Granada 2.8i Ghia -v- Volvo 760GLE -v- Peugeot 604STi The big, brash Swede takes on Ford’s top marker and the soft-riding Peugeot
106 Ferrari Yellow Ian Fraser regrets the moment he stepped into a Mondial for a high-speed run with a resident test driver, Pietro, at the wheel
108 Test of Tome The motoring authors’ latest efforts – on Ferrari, Lotus, BMW and many others – pass under the super-critical eye of Ian Fraser
115 The Good, the Bad and the Ugly Our revamped guide to the lovelies, lemons and so-so’s of today’s cars is guaranteed to bring tears to your eyes
128 Spider, Spider One of the most captivating, super-sensuous car shapes of all time – Pininfarina’s XJ Spider – as recalled by Mel Nichols