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Table of Contents
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Regulars
7 UP FRONT
New editor Rob Munro-Hall gets down to Woolworths for a dodgy passport pic
10 NEWSDESK
BMW’s next generation 3-series, the MECASIGNS SMART CAR and a very orange McLAREN
19 AROUND THE WORLD
Hard times! VW’s spirit of ‘68 starts French unrest, the US goes speed crazy, Agnelli stands down at FIAT and COSWORTH bids for world domination
60 SIR!
Complaints, condolences and congratulations. Not in that order and not in equal measure
186 NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW HIM
This bloke stares out when all around is darkness
Tests and features
30 THE MERC ETHIC
MERCEDES’ AAV (Activity Vehicle) is a fairly radical departure for the Stuttgart maker. The body anything like the production version promises to be a credit to the company
38 NEW BRITISH RECORD
A personal best for Colin Goodwin as he zooms past a TVR JAGUAR XJ220 and a 180mph MCLAREN at the record books.
48 DRIVETRAIN SPOTTERS
PORSCH CARRERA, HONDA CRX, JAGUAR XJR 2.0 QUATTRO and MERC C230
Welcome to the month’s best engine roommates. Read on for their stories. Some get along better than others
142 CRAP CAR CUP FINAL
The answer is yes, do-it-yourselfers are the biggest losers but they still want to be part of the bargain bucket car market
146 SHEIKH IT TO THE LIMIT
What would you do if money was no object, super hardware was readily available and speeding fines were a joke? Exactly. Welcome to Dubai
152 FEAR WE GO
Imagine a wet Silverstone in an Escort Cosworth with Schumacher at the controls or the Nurburgring in an RS2000 Capri. CAR’s new racer Nigel Roebuck inspects the secret world of test drivers
156 WHO’S NEW FOR ‘96
All the hot cars worth watching this year – and those you should go out of your way to avoid. Our short guide to the year’s good stuff
The good, the bad and the ugly
163 NEWCOMERS
ROVER 623, MITSUBISHI Carisma, V. CLS, HONDA Accord, VAUXHALL CORSA SPORT
169 SECOND THOUGHTS
SAAB 9000 CD 2.0
170 LONG-TERMER
MAZDA 323F
170 FINAL DRIVE
AUDI S2 COUPE
173 THE LOW-DOWN
Numbers, more numbers and more numbers — your monthly opinion
184 SHOWROOM FLOOR
Top-selling UK cars
100 YEARS OF BRITISH CARS
From shaky start to uncertain future, but with some good bits in between
70 TRUE BRIT
The 10 motors that keep Britain on the map; celebrated with a fair amount of strawberry flag-waving – why not?
92 IT’S OUR PARTY
Lord Lucan’s chef went to Gornell men and UK’s ace the champagne, but the fizz soon disappears up their drawers
106 DOWN THE PAN
Not lavatorial humour, but a look at where our once-great British car industry went
108 GUILTY PARTIES
Those are the movers and the shakers… and so the record shows they must file the British motor industry coffin. They’re mostly horrible and a bit controversial too.
120 HISTORY IS THEIR JUDGE
But before sentence is passed, the most cherished of our industry traditional men hear the mild mitigating circumstance and beg for leniency. No chance
113 COLUMNS
Three out of four on Britain and the British; LJK Setright on something else altogether
120 SMARTER THAN ALEC
Our team designs a MINI for the 21st century, and comes up against the same brick walls faced by Sir Alec 36 years ago. The result is pure brilliance
134 ALL ROVER NOW
Imagine bouncing British cars from a Surrey producer for the last 59 years, G Kingsbury of Hampton has done just that – this is what it was like
136 BERND OFFERINGS
ROVER’s new boss, Bernd Pischetsrieder (just call me Bernd), talks about Prussians, MINIS, British humour, the future and beyond