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Table of Contents
5 AGENDA What I did on my Christmas holiday, by Stephen John Cropley, aged 38
6 HEADLINES First pictures of the new BMW 5-series, information on the next Metro, and scoop shots of the Porsche 944 Cabriolet
14 NEWCOMERS Peugeot 309 SRI
Honda Integra EX16
Renault 9
Jeep Wrangler
26 SIR! Green and Stinson get some flak, and so does Cropley for his Keep Your Distance views. There's even a reader who likes Daihatsu Charmants
41 FRONTLINE The fab four have their say
57 ORACLE Latest industrial news from Germany (there's in-fighting between Audi and VW engineers over engine development), Italy (Fiat has leaked ‘secret’ new model pictures to thwart VW Golf sales), France (Peugeot’s preparation for the Paris-Dakar Rally), and USA (GM spends $700million to buy-off a troublesome shareholder)
80 SENSIBLE SPEED Three real supercars that together cost little more than one Testarossa, battle it out. Can the ageing 911 hold off the new GTA and Britain’s own Esprit Turbo?
90 IN BRITAIN The spiralling values of the mark and the yen could bode well for Austin Rover, whose cars could start looking good value
92 BIONIC BITZER The Lancia Thema 8.32 must be the supreme production hybrid. Underneath its square body lurks a Ferrari V8 engine. Richard Bremner let loose in one
96 THE REIGN IN SPAIN Georg Kacher on Seat, now under the control of Volkswagen. There’s new model information, too, plus drives of two new cars – the Ibiza five-door and the Marbella supermini
104 WHEELS Jottings on cars we’ve driven lately, rather than tested thoroughly:
Maserati Biturbo
Vauxhall Nova 1.2L 4-dr
Renault 11 Turbo
Alfa Romeo GTV6
Volvo 740 Turbo
Vauxhall Cavalier 2.0CD
106 INTO AFRICA Phil Llewellin rides shotgun with French formula one star Patrick Tambay, who’s at the wheel of his factory entered Paris-Dakar Range Rover
112 ARCHIVE As we salute three sensible modern sports cars on our cover, David Burgess-Wise looks back to the first cars built for driving pleasure, such as the Prince Henry Vauxhall of 70 years ago
114 SOUL SEARCHING Audi's latest 80 takes on the Honda Accord and Alfa 75. One car emerges as the clear overall winner, but it wasn’t the one whose keys we hankered for when it was going home time
124 MUD, SWEAT AND BEER Following the Welsh Trial, through the mud, up the hills and over the dales. Some of the cars are worth a fortune, but you’d never know it from the way they were driven
132 OTHER SIDE OF THE WIRE Believe it or not, George Bishop was once a PR man, who dealt with the world’s press. Far from being an oil on troubled waters man, George was more the combative sort, as his tale clearly relates
136 WORKING WITH CARS Chris Harvey visits a Connolly’s leather grader, who selects the hides that plutocrats’ backsides repose on