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Table of Contents
5 AGENDA
We couldn’t help ourselves: we just wanted the Ferrari F355 to be brilliant. And the Audi A8. So now we’re happy
6 NEWS
The Italian renaissance brings us new Fiat and Alfa sportsters. Peugeot is to build a new 205-based — shock — 206
20 ORACLE
Georg Kacher uncovers the entire General Motors programme until the century’s end. It’s marvellously fertile
24 IN BRITAIN
Personal contact purchase, a new form of leasing, is for many people the least painful way to buy a car
30 No longer 100; facelifted Audi is called A6
30 NEWCOMERS
Audi A6 Revised 100, new face p30
Saab 900 Convertible A breeze p34
BMW 730i Basic or not new 7-series p39
Fiat Punto Casco car of the year p46
Mazda MX-5 1.8! Cheaper delight p50
57 SIR!
Some readers find the McLaren F1 pricey. Others berate Bayley, Atkinson and Clark for the ‘British’ beauty
67 FRONTLINE
Sterling on clever Toyotas, Bishop on the wide BBC. Cameron: on the best car in the world (but you can’t guess). Bulgin says nothing, in memory of Senna
80 CAVALLINO SUPREMO
Ferrari’s new entry-level F355 seethes with the power and passion of the Ferrari name. Paul Horrell has driven it, and we’re still calling him down
92 LAST WEEKEND OF THE CHAMPION
CAR had a long-standing arrangement to photograph Williams’s cars at Monza. We now run Dario Franchitti’s pictures as a tribute to Senna
100 FIRST LUNCH IN FRANCE
Stephen Bayley, fresh off the ferry, road-tests some deadly brooding seductively-creased cars: chic bistro transport makes Channel ports. Transport is by Twingo
104 GIANT TEST: RED DEVILS
The Escort Cosworth is even better favoured for the road now. It faces two of our favourites: Pug 306 XSi/GTi-6, validate and Impreza. Hot on the dearer Celica option
112 MEN ONLY
LJK Setright, noting the differences in women, boys to portion between men and women, says the latter have been neglected by (male?) car designers
116 (ALMOST) THE FASTEST MAN IN THE WORLD
Have-go hero Rosco McGlashan decided to break his speed record. So, like you do, he got his hands on a jet car. Ian Green chronicles the attempt
124 EIGHT BORES OF FIRE
The new TVR AJP engine is running! Colin Goodwin, in a world exclusive, drives the 380bhp Tuscan test-bed, and runs acceleration figures: mind-boggling
128 THE TORTOISE AND THE HARE
In which Aesop’s fable is brought into the motoring era. Is a modern diesel 10 times quicker than Marathons imparted by fuel files?
132 STAR-SPANGLED BANGLE
Chris Bangle is the new design chief at BMW. He tells Russell Bulgin about BMW-ness, about working at Rover, about lines, surfaces, designers
TORTOISE. MAX SPEED 0.5 mph
134 THE BEST CAR IN THE WORLD
Dinner suits and ballgowns, gold envelopes and thank-you speeches: we’re off to the CAR award ceremony. New 740i v A8 v 31 LS v S420
144 RACING LINES
Iain Heppenstall photographs the current Ferrari grand prix car. It’s as stirring a sight when still as it is flat out
148 DASH AND CARRY
Peugeot, several years late, reshapes and renames the Renault Espace. Mark Gillies samples the new, and finds the champion’s successors
167 THE GOOD, THE BAD AND
Flat prices, hairy comment. This time Audi’s and Vauxhall Omegas are the new market entrants
176 LOST IN AMERICA
Jamie Kitman describes how a car enthusiast develops Hysterics. He goes to the Boston Red Sox baseball in a Renault Twingo
AUSSIE INVADER 2. MAX SPEED 580 mph
80 The parson knows: this Ferrari has devastating power, brilliant handling and jaw-dropping looks. Pity he can’t speak English, or he could read our story