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Table of Contents
5 Agenda The Ford Sierra – and why there’s no GBU
7 Sir! We’re too impressionable, we’re inarticulate, Gordon Kent’s too vitriolic, but you liked LJKS’s oils story, so perhaps there’s some hope for us just the same
11 Frontline Private view from four (quite) wise men
23 Oracle News of the world, about the car industry
36 STAR TURN! Mercedes-Benz’s brilliant new car blows in – with an all-new design that includes a world-first in suspension design. We put it to the test
42 BMW Answer Back There’s a four-door Three Series coming in the autumn – faster and more compact than the Merc, shorter on good body design
43 Mercedes Tomorrow Georg Kacher surveys the Stuttgarters’ prospects of continuing to make more money than everyone else in the German industry
44 Sacco on the 190 The Three Pointed Star’s design chief explains how the small Mercedes happened, and where he thinks car design is heading
46 NEWCOMERS: BMW Three Series in depth Fiats Strada and Panda Improved, but… Panther Kallista Upwardly mobile Talbots Samba Cabrio Fresh air
52 A Car Thief Speaks Say hello to the man who steals five cars a week professionally, makes a tax-free living doing it – and hasn’t ever been caught
54 All About Car Alarms David Rowlands presents the other side of car crime game; the steps you can take to protect your machine from an unhappy end
56 Rapid Rotarian Mazda’s excellent RX7 has a good enough chassis to cope with extra turbo-boost, the Elford way. It’s a car with a tinge of the exotic
62 GIANT TEST BLOCKBUSTER! Ford Sierra meets Vauxhall Cavalier and Volkswagen Passat. The 1.6litre family five-doors, each a modern car, battle
76 Blast In The Black Forest Whiling the day away in a Mercedes 280SL; top folded flat, sun overhead, 180 obedient horsepower under the elegant bonnet
80 War On Waste How our best engine designers are pegging back the 88percent of energy that’s lost on the car engines of today. Geoffrey Howard reports
83 The VM Solution Meanwhile, BL Cars will benefit early from a new three-cylinder compact diesel, perhaps turbocharged, that’s coming soon from Italy
84 LONG TERM TEST Charming Cavalier The new Vauxhall, of our Giant Test three, has already proved its worth in our headlong charge to 20,000miles
92 Test of Tome Ian Fraser, but rarely the car book author’s friend, reviews a new batch of car titles. Unerringly, he selects wheat from chaff
96 ’Way Back When 190 Gavin Green on the first Mercedes called 190; it was built in the middle ’50s. For its time, it was progressive, pretty