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Table of Contents
5 Agenda Jaguar’s plan to beat Mercedes at their own game
6 Headlines Things you need to know about the car business
14 NEWCOMERS Sierra 2.0iS Fast, competent
Lancia Y10 Slow, promising
Arna 1.5Ti Sporty stopgap
Chevy Spectrum Humdrum
Yankie
Charade Turbo Interesting
Fiat Strada Improved
29 Sir! Just about the least reverent readers’ forum of them all
43 Frontline Carte Blanche for all four, not just George B
53 Oracle News, rumours, secrets, scandal, intrigue, scoops
80 Jaguar’s All-New XJ40 We reveal more exclusive details of Britain’s all-important luxury car, with Hans Lehmann pictures that confirm the car’s Series Three resemblance
84 Excellence Expert Jaguar’s top engineer, Jim Randle, explains the complexities of building a lighter car as good as the existing Jaguar – and reveals some development details
86 The Big Leap Gordon Kent takes a hard-nosed look at Jaguar, the one-product company, and assesses the change from XJ6 to XJ40 from the shareholder’s viewpoint
88 Cabrio Cat At last Jaguar have done the logical thing and brought their drop-top body together with the marvellous 5.3litre V12 engine. Gavin Green says it’s the best XJS yet
90 Solo Goes Supercar There are secret plans afoot to equip Panther’s mid-engined Solo with the 205bhp Cosworth Sierra engine, plus four-wheel-drive – and sell it for £18,000
94 In The Panther Proto We drive the original, 1.6litre rear-drive Panther Solo – and find it’s a well conceived car, with the makings of a good, bargain-priced British-built Ferrarichaser
98 Tilting At Supercars Georg Kacher introduces the excellent, but long-awaited 16-valve Golf and Scirocco models and explains why the whole business took so long to arrive
103 Selling Serious Speed With 139bhp under their bonnets, the new 16V Volkswagens now have just-sub-supercar, 130mph performance. And for only about £10,000
106 INTERVIEW Stuart Turner Meet the man who is masterminding Ford’s return to serious competition – with the RS200 and other projects. He began work as an accountant
109 Henry On The Track Chris Harvey charts the chequered history of Ford in racing from the early ’60s and the beginnings of Formula Ford, to their present day involvement
110 Pulling Power Personified Ford’s new viscous-coupled Sierra XR4x4 meets its rival, the Audi 90 Quattro, in a tussle which makes the excellence of other cars seem routine
118 Quattro Vadis? Mel Nichols investigates, and drives very hard, the short-wheelbase Audi Quattro Sport. Some say it’s simply an unsuccessful rally car; Nichols is not among them
124 Hitching Plenty of people who don’t drive travel by car; they depend on others for the favour. Marcus Gray surveys the state of The British Hitch, and laments the 1960s
126 Flying Solo The mid-engined Panther makes its first visit to the MIRA wind tunnel with CAR in tow; we learn how rapidly – and how much – changes affect cars’ drag and lift
136 Blundering In Borneo This year’s off-road torture test, the Camel Trophy, was expected to cover 1000miles through the Borneo jungle. But things went radically wrong
149 The Good, The Bad And The Ugly Surveying Britain’s new cars and their prices in a no-nonsense way that doesn’t suit all the salesmen. Or all the owners, for that matter
164 Tech We report on GM’s other side, their role as a computer giant; we add to the debate on new body-materials and we discover a source of cheap Japanese engines
168 Previous Panther Chris Harvey describes the first and best Bob Jankel-built Panther, the J72, which began the replicar boom in this country, and still looks good today