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Table of Contents
5 AGENDA
Meet the people behind the new McLaren supercar. They’re hoping to build cheaper road cars, too
6 NEWS
All you need to know about the new Golf GTi – on sale in a year. Also, pictures and details of the 205, Fiat’s million supersedes Peugeot’s best of the ’80s. Plus information and photos of Bentley’s new coupe, and industry news from around the world
36 ORACLE
Fiat’s sales are depressed. New models are needed, and Georg Kacher tells you what they are
41 SIR!
Support for Rowan Atkinson and catalytic converters; more comment on Setright’s recent ramblings on automatics. Plus more bull terrier correspondence
46 NEWCOMERS
Audi 100 Not radical, but good page 46
Mazda Revue Japan’s reincarnated 600 page 48
Alfa 33 1.5 IE Interesting, rather than great page 55
Fiat Tempra Estate Handsome, capacious page 57
Audi 80 Sport Ever yummy, with character page 67
Hyundai Lantra Pretty and impressive page 69
73 FRONTLINE
Setright on why the Audi V8 is the best German car for years; Bishop goes touring in France; Bulgin is on his mountain bike; Llewellin is off to Mod Uno
82 DINKY’S TOY
Inside the new BMW 3-series: faster, prettier and more desirable than ever
90 HOW THE NEW BAVARIAN MOTOR WORKS
The nuts and bolts story of the new BMW
94 WHY ROVER?
Why Rover’s managing director still feels a little shiftless. Is he selling lots of cars, or just muddling on? News in from VW in Europe; and why the firm is now running a US factory – one that’s also making Minis in religious circumstances
96 ‘ERE WE GO
Bulgin covers the rally version of the forthcoming Escort. And, if it will be Ford’s most radical road car, so will its racer; if it was its regular ‘s’ model in Italy, it’s new again
102 SID’S LAW
Richard Bremner blows his money on a silly old Alfa (again)
104 GIANT TEST
Rover’s new three-door twin-cam GTI takes on the class king – the Golf GTi 16V – and the new Renault 19 16V, soon for Britain
112 RAIN STOPPED PLAY
Russell Bulgin tries to do 176mph in the only country where he can legally have a go: Germany. He fails, but not for want of trying
116 LONG TERMERS
Updates on four of the cars in our long-term fleet: a (newly smashed) Citroën XM, a Corrado, Alfa 164 and Skoda Favorit
118 KIT CAR
Buying and building a £200 Porsche 959
126 INSIDE LINE
Our Nigel’s (Roebuck, not Mansell) review of the 1990 grand prix season
128 BERLIN HAUL
Phil Llewellin heads to Berlin, and beyond, in the new-to-Britain BMW 850i
138 160,000
That’s how many (largely trouble-free) miles photographer Graham Harrison has put under the wheels of his A-reg BMW 320i
141 SOAPBOX
At our new readers’ column: this month, Bel Bailey on the lady who misplaced Rolls-Royce’s mascot of Ecstasy
146 PRE-OWNED
Buying Lotus-engined specials – such as Lotus Cortinas and Sunbeam Lotuses – second-hand
150 BMW: THE GOOD, THE BAD AND THE UGLY
Things are going well, but it’s not all champagne and caviar at BMW
159 SALES PITCH
Alfa’s sales are improving in Britain, but Lancia’s are not
160 HANDLEBARS
Setright rides shotgun in a new sidecar outfit
164 INDEX
In CAR 1990
Cataloguing every story that appeared
168 JUST CARS
Why facelifts usually make cars look worse