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Table of Contents
5 Agenda All about the Top 10; how we chose, drove and shot it
6 Headlines A new 911, and other recent-release wonders
14 NEWCOMERS Toyota Celica GT Great new coupe Fiat Croma Decent flagship Isuzu Piazza Turbo Crude chassis
25 Sir! The piece of the magazine which most belongs to you
34 Win A Porsche, Part Three The final lap – for humorists
39 Frontline Carte blanche for four, not just George Bishop
49 Oracle Five CAR correspondents report their countries’ news
74 Starship 911 Steve Cropley sets forth in the £74,000 Porsche 911 Turbo Special Equipment that set them alight at Motorfair. It’s the marque’s new flagship (till the 959 comes)
82 Not Yet A Legend Honda have got it mostly right with their new big car, but they’ve made silly mistakes. So says Lionel Pankhurst, who drove two, and hopes ARG do better
84 Sierra Wins Its Spurs The Ford family five-door gets 204bhp (from turbocharged 16valve twin-cam engine) and changes into a performance car. Richard Bremner finds it handles well
90 Lion In The Desert We pit Peugeot’s new British-built light family car, the 309, against the North African elements in Part One of a two-piece long distance test covering 5000miles
98 Second Wind Gavin Green test drives Mazda’s second shot at the RX-7, a bigger, heavier, quicker, more expensive twin-rotor two-seater that looks far too much like a Porsche 944
104 Tokyo On Top Georg Kacher reports from the Tokyo Motor Show, where every Japanese car maker fielded vital, fascinating new cars. Many called it the best show ever
114 GIANT TEST Lancia Thema 2.0ie LX Turbo-v-Saab 9000 Turbo 16-v-Renault 25 V6 Turbo The first Tipo Quattro cars meet Renault’s quickest in this executive market contest
124 Character Building No need to wonder whether they’ve been making money at Porsche lately; they’ve just opened a purpose-designed £11m headquarters at Chalcot, near Reading
128 Honest John Porsche’s John Aldington ought to be the most optimistic man in the British car business. Yet rising high only means they can fall with a satisfying ‘splat,’ he warns
130 Archive David Burgess Wise describes the havoc which the first cars caused in Britain – and how the law-makers sought to restore order and curb the wheeled ‘engines of death’
135 The Good, The Bad And The Ugly We present Britain’s straight-shooting price guide with comments. It upsets salesmen and one-make types. Occasionally readers, too
150 Tech Geoffrey Howard isolates solar power and hydrogen combustion as the long term power sources for future cars – and explains why quieter models are coming quite soon
152 Into The Wind Chris Harvey explains how the first Porsche 911 Turbo supercar came along to defy the ’70s oil crisis