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Table of Contents
5 Agenda
Know anything we should know? You could earn
7 Sir!
Write them short, please, we can run more of ’em
12 Frontline
Carte blanche for four, not only George B
26 Oracle
Rumours, secrets, scoops, scandals, intrigue
52 Wild In Wales
We take eight four-wheel-drive vehicles Britain’s best and the finest of the rest, to check their prowess in conditions where no quarter is given
57 Time Travellers
Philip Llewellin, historian and master of our Welsh waggon train, explains where the off-roaders went – and who went there generations before them
60 Mud Maestro
Meet Don Green, Land Rover driver par excellence. He’s been making a living out of his skill at handling vehicles off-road for decades. Tip’s here, too
62 Tantalising Tokyo
This year, Hattori Yoshi reckons, the Japanese industry made up for the fact that the Germans showed them the way in ’82. Performance was king
68 NEWCOMERS
Fiat Uno-matic/Ford Fiesta CTX Small, shiftless
Renault Fuego Turbo Fast
Mitsubishi Colt Better
Renault R11 TXE Better
Citroen CX DTR Trific
74 Highland Fling
John McCormick takes off for Inverness in a Lotus Excel – and sets up the questions for the final round of our Win-A-Lotus competition. Are you ready?
80 Rough Bunch
LJKS’ highly personal view of this year’s Car Of The Year field, tested in Denmark. He had 15 cars to get through; not so many, he felt, passed muster
84 GIANT TEST
Volkswagen Scirocco CL-v-Honda Prelude DL-v-Opel Manta Berlinetta 1.8S
Can the much-better coupe from Japan beat a proven pair from Europe?
89 After The GTi
Georg Kacher weighs in with full details of the Scirocco 16V, the 16-valve coupe that will soon be putting the trend-setting GTi in the shade. Here mid-’84
94 Win A Lotus Excel
Here is the car you could win; here are the final questions you must answer to do it. And nearby is the coupon you need to enter. Good luck, all
96 Fair Coupe
We could find little fault with our Long Term Volkswagen Scirocco GTi – it just kept doing the job well. The owner’s aiming now at a new 16-valver …
104 Tech
In its second appearance, our new technical column turns to continuously variable transmissions, their workings, their history, their present, their future
110 Hearsay
David Rowlands has been surveying the latest in-car hi-fi at a Tokyo audio fair; there’s the low-down on disc players, plus some Xmas hints
115 The Good, The Bad And The Ugly
Surveying Britain’s new cars and their prices in a pull-no-punches way that doesn’t suit all industry folk. Or all enthusiasts
128 No Change At Austin
Peter Minnis takes a look at, (and drives) a Hayes transmission Austin of the ’30s. He explains why the system was adopted, and failed