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Table of Contents
5 AGENDA
The car that was the standard for all the rest has now been overthrown — by a machine costing only half as much. There’s changes to CAR too
6 HEADLINES
First pictures of the Peugeot 405, built in Britain. It’s gunning for the Sierra and the Cavalier
14 NEWCOMERS
Peugeot 205 GTI 1.9
Mercedes 190E 2.6
Peugeot 505 V6
Toyota Camry
31 SIR!
One reader wonders what's happened to our hard-nosed attitude on new car evaluations, another berates us for being irrelevant to the royals
41 FRONTLINE
Four wise men speak out
57 ORACLE
Industry news — much of it still secret — from our overseas correspondents
90 OUR FATHER
Comparing two small £12,000 four-wheel-drive cars, which claim to take the fast hatchback a stage further. One does more than moves — and actually betters the Quattro
98 THE KING IS DEAD
Richard Bremner on the overthrow of the old 4x4 king who time has caught
100 IN BRITAIN
Gordon Kent, in his new column, scrutinises the early stages of Graham Day’s ARG chairmanship, and notices an odd commitment confirmed by new MD Les Wharton
102 LEGEND COMES TO LIFE
Roger Bell drives one of the first Honda Legends made in Britain, and compares it with its Rover cousin — the 800
106 CIVIC CENTRE
Road test: the Honda's UK engineers give some very polite answers to questions about the firm’s future British plans
110 TRUMP CAR
The AC Ace is one of the most significant British sports cars for years — not least because it is artily engineered by Ford
114 NEXT YEAR'S CARS
Georg Kacher on the Paris Salon, where the Citroen AX and many German cars made their world debuts. There were some interesting design studies, too
118 LITTLE BOY BRUM
The big boys decided not to unveil any cars at Birmingham, but the little guys — like TVR and Ginetta — produced eye-catchers
124 WHEELS
Cars we’ve sampled lately, rather than tested
126 TOMORROW'S MEN
Nine RCA graduate students — many sponsored by the car industry — restyle the cars they’d most like to see changed
134 SWEDISH STEEL
Sweden’s car industry is inordinately successful, despite drawbacks such as a tiny domestic market and high costs. Georg Kacher explains
142 RITZY RAGTOP
Ian Fraser ventures to California, where most of the new Saab 900 convertibles will find their homes
148 FIRE BRAND
LJK Setright on tart and true specialist AMG’s latest — and most extraordinary — machine. It’s a W124 Merc with a 5.6litre 32valve V8 shoehorned in
156 MAN ABOUT TOWN AND COUNTRY
Car rental boss Richard Tenser started with six VW Golfs in 1979, and now commands a 7000 strong fleet
160 ARCHIVE
David Burgess-Wise on one of the world’s first full-time four-wheel-drive cars, the Dutch Spyker — built just after the turn of the century
166 dB
Geoffrey Howard on an aerial that improves FM reception
169 THE GOOD, THE BAD AND THE UGLY
Our form guide, to new cars, that shifty salesmen scorn
184 WORKING WITH CARS
The first of a new back page column. This month, Phil Llewellin chats to a senior Rolls-Royce test driver