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Table of Contents
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Regulars
5 UP FRONT
Sad news concerning our leader and the man who started it all
8 NEWSDESK
The great ROVER 200 cock-up, another stunning new Alfa and MERCEDES on the MPV wagon
17 AROUND THE WORLD
‘Poor cars’ (by TVR); Chrysler’s OAP crossover; Citroën race cars (women’s stuff); a rout in Italy
51 SIR!
That Escort, plus a Scorpio heaven and a crap car challenger
59 COLUMNS
Four good men and some truth
184 NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW HIM
He, too, is a car magazine publisher, only he’s made rather more money at it than we have
Tests and features
28 THE TIDE HAS TURNED
Lowest-test: Rover 200 meets (and flattens) Fiat Bravo; Richard Bremner revels in cheap thrills…
36 HOT FLUSH
……while Roger Bell puts the boot in and all hell breaks out; OAP COMFORT? They can all faint
42 DAY OF THUNDER
Howard Walker gets a NASCAR drive, but only for the day
68 YOU TAKE THE HARD ROAD
From the comfort of an Aston Martin Vantage, Andrew Frankel lets his last nerve bleed
76 GOING FOR BROKE
Jamie Kitman, Montana, Ferrari 456, 180mph or bust. You’ll love it
80 GOING, GOING, GONE
Porsche 928, 1977–1995. Sadly departed but being since sold to the highest bidder, LJK Setright
84 BLUEPRINT TO BLAST-OFF
A technological and stylistic attempt to propel Lotus into the 21st century. You won’t believe how far Elise takes the styling really
97 CRAP CAR CUP: PART 3
Performance testing: not a term we’ve ever used. Andrew Frankel and Collin Goodwin’s search for the country’s truly astonishing cars continues
104 GHOST OF COSWORTH PAST
The online America’s and western hemisphere-- terrifying lurking in an Oregon junkyard. Tim and Tim
108 THE MOST DANGEROUS 25 MILES ON EARTH
The Bronx to Brooklyn by CHRYSLER NEW YORKER. Georg Kacher somehow survives
116 PUMP UP THE VOLUME
John Simister stabs buttons whilst gentlemen musicians muse on the quality of standard-fit car hi-fi
136 VAN ORDINARIE
Stephen Bayley laments the great design features that, 15 after CITROEN XANTIA LAGOON and CITROEN XANTIA load-luggers
126 TAKE IT TO THE MANX
Isle of Man tee-hee racing with Phil Llewellin in his MAZDA 323F
132 BIRTHPLACE OF THE BLUES
Colin Curwood drove his Chevy Corvette down to Mississippi. Oh Colin Curwood drove his etc
140 OH NO! NOT SOCKS AGAIN
No – our best books for Crimbo
146 M3, A44, B660, A5, B480
Four are roads, the other is a great new BMW. Mark Gillies points you in the right direction
146 CHAMPION THE WUNDERKIND
In Nigel Roebuck’s review of the 1995 F1 season, one name keeps cropping up like a bad penny…