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Table of Contents
60 Porsche 911 GT3
If you absolutely must do 185mph, here’s how – with 360bhp and less weight than Bambi, this 911 blows all predecessors out of the water
70 Ford Mondeo ST200
Rep star assumes power and attitude, and not before time.
In trouble, this is 2000bhp cantanger built on a 3200kg wagon of 156s, I5200s, Type-Rs, Impreza Turbos…
We assess them all
78 Monaco: the building of an F1 circuit
How do they turn a tax haven into a race track? Our photographer spent three months finding out
84 Monaco II: life at the bottom
We’re in the pits (and the multi-storey car park) with the BAR team as they struggle to make an impact on F1’s closed world
90 Monaco III: the local
A beer or two with Johnny Herbert
96 BMW M5 v Maserati 3200GT
First time out in UK roads for the right-hooker M5 and Maserati, two spectacular gyrators.
We test, we tango, we bring statement (and write a very big cheque)
106 Grey area: importers feeling the heat
Two resorts to the law to curb the excesses of the grey importers.
With the SVA rules about to change, what next for the grey trade?
114 Ferrari to the end of the world
We’ve just happened to be in Buenos Aires with a 550 Maranello.
So join Sig and the Grand Turismo 3000 miles through the wildest of worlds: what would you have done?
132 Used roadsters: MX-5 meets Barchetta
Dreams come true for less cash.
If given your free vote for the world of roadsters, road-test royal hassles – which plain common sense – which of the two babes can change your life?
REGULARS
16 News
Seat leads the supermini charge with its unreasonably extensive new range of Ibizas – new rights, new ideas, new engines, new levels: clever bodies, clever cross-combine.
24 Insider
Crash helmets bring on a lack of grooming; and there are only a fair few good wheezy what exactly does not get rid of all those bold emergencies?
Ford on the new gravel trick and other catwalks: incoming Mercedes-Benz showcases radical active suspension.
32 Newcomers
Saab 9-3 Viggen, Volvo C70 cabriolet, Subaru 2.0, Alpina B10, Hyundai Coupé F2 Evolution, VW Golf Estate, BMW 740d, Kawasaki W650
51 Frontlines
It breaks the unwritten law but it’s because the unwritten law remains a global idea: Mercedes’s understanding of the E55 and particularly about the S55 and the SL55 has not broken the law of Smart
129 Long-term test update
Across the PR-planned, used Merc feels like new again; no, sadly Saab 9-3
138 Multi-story
A Mini in a top hat, an Italian Ape in London, what our badges mean, new Mercs for sale and one very big bridge indeed
144 Inside Line
Brach Hatch steals Monaco show
146 Gearhead
New toys feature fashion
149 Sir!
A manifesto for motoring Nirvana
226 Last stand
WIN tickets to the RAC British Grand Prix
LISTINGS
155 The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly
Suzuki’s Grand Vitara makes a proper, affordable 4x4 so get off the bus – even if it looks more ferret than grunt.
Punto? It’s A0s.
FR-Vs. The cash-only on the market.
The Ferrari 360 Modena will better deals this year.
And, of course, every new car is rated and debated
217 The facts and figures
If it’s a new car and it’s on sale in Britain, you’ll find it here, with all its essential bid continuously bare