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Table of Contents
5 AGENDA
Editor Gavin Green hands over the best job in motoring journalism to the man who currently holds the second best
6 NEWS
Undisguised photos of next year's Porsche, Peugeot 306 and new Vauxhall Nova. Plus Aston Vantage details
26 ORACLE
Georg Kacher on everything you wanted to know about GM Europe's future models, but weren't sure who to ask
32 ONE IS FUN
Hot hatches aren’t what they were. We test the new 16V Golf GTI, new 16V Citroën ZX and Honda Civic VTi, and find two of them are no more than lukewarm
40 IN BRITAIN
The efficiency of Japan’s British car plants will result in cheaper cars for the punters, but will be bad news for European manufacturers. By Richard Feast
42 BUNDESTANK
Georg Kacher, CAR’s tallest, drives Mercedes’ grossest, the gargantuan 600SEC. He’s impressed by the car’s abilities, but is…
53 FRONTLINE
Bishop is locked out, Atkinson has a pain in the neck, Bulgin preaches sobriety, and Setright takes to the track
69 SIR!
Writings on Rovers, motorway grub defended, a handicapped Golf, and a suggestion that we take driving lessons
76 GIANT TEST
The Mercedes S-class has upped the ante in the big-car league, but the others aren’t standing still: we face up Merc 400SE, BMW V8 740i and Jaguar Sovereign
84 COROLLA, CARINA, THEY MAKE YOUR WASHING CLEANER
Two Toyotas that should be sold by Currys – they are just appliances, so bland that we find them difficult to tell apart
86 HISTORIC RACER
Roger Bell, retired saloon-car racer, goes for a blast in a Touring Car championship-contending Nissan Primera. It’s super-fast, out-braked and huge fun
90 GHOST IN THE MACHINE
Porsche’s 968 is selling as well as yesterday’s newspaper. Russell Hayes investigates why Porsche is losing its customer base, from Nissan and Mazda
92 FULL METAL JACKET
We steal a march by getting first drive in the Challenger 2, Britain’s new battle tank. Ronald Barker sends in this despatch
96 FLIGHT OF THE MICROLIGHT
Peter Nunn goes driving in Japan’s smallest micro-car: Mazda’s gull-winged and mid-engined AZ-1. It’s big on fun and very small on accommodation
98 THREE-RING CIRCUS
We wear out the shoe leather on your behalf at the Paris, Berlin, and Birmingham motor shows. Georg Kacher has all the gossip and news, plus sore feet
104 GREAT ENGINEERS
LJK Setright, in the second part of his series, looks at the Americans; and how their vast garments industry influenced the motor’s development
106 EIGHT INTO FIVE
Does it go? Georg Kacher drives BMW’s V8-powered 5-series, the 540i; it’s a heavy hitter
112 LONG-TERM TEST: SAFE ZX
Citroën’s ZX is a disappointment to Citroënistes, but for Colin Goodwin, who has yearned a love for the marque, our long-term ZX Reflex proves to be a great family car
120 INSIDE LINE
Nigel Mansell goes Indycar racing next year. Nigel Roebuck asks Emerson Fittipaldi what he’s up against and how he’ll fare in this scary world
126 ROUTE MASTER
In the first of our series of great drives, Phil Llewellin goes road atlas in hand, to seek out the best driving roads in the traffic-choked south east
132 BRIEFS
Half a dozen new cars that we've driven recently, ranging from the much improved Audi V6, to a budget-priced warm coupe from Korea
147 THE GOOD, THE BAD AND THE UGLY
Another barrage of cheers and boos from CAR’s legendary new-car listings. With more pictures, too
158 KERB CRAWLER
James Ruppert hits the streets to see what gadgets can be had for £1000. Prepare yourselves for some frights
160 JUST CARS
CAR’s in-house anorak wearer, Richard Bremner, reviews a book so packed with trivia that even he nods off