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Table of Contents
5 AGENDA
There has been some good news about cars and pollution, but, fumes
Green, it is being wilfully kept from us
6 NEWS
Details of the next Cavalier (although
it might not be called that), plus
pictures of the Land Rover P38A's cabin
20 ORACLE
Georg Kacher on BMW's new small
car – the 1-2-series (or E1) – which the
company has finally decided to build
24 IN BRITAIN
CAR's readers and writers are
becoming society's pariahs, says
Richard Feast. And that means you
35 Honda's revised NSX: fast, safe, brilliant
30 NEWCOMERS
Toyota MR2 More power, better
handling, new tail-lights p30
Honda NSX Tweaked, and just as great p35
Ford Windstar An under-winding vehicle p38
Vauxhall Monterey Quite a Trooper p44
49 SIR!
Several readers are bitter about their
lemons, another has an excellent
driving game idea, and, on a controversial
subject, naked bodies are defended
58 SOAP BOX
Granville F Batty reckons that cars
should be subject to the same
rigorous safety inspections as aeroplanes
61 FRONTLINE
Bugin meets Giugiaro over a cup of
cappuccino, Bishop talks Bimmers,
Bremner gets to know a Calibra, and
Setright reflects on the subject of speeding
74 INTO ORBIT
At last: we drive the McLaren F1
hypercar. Roger Bell on the most
powerful, most high-tech, most expensive
and most exhilarating car ever made
86 BEST DRIVER'S CAR EVER
That's what Gordon Murray says
about the McLaren. A Bugatti T35, a
Ferrari 250 GTO, a Porsche 911, a Clio
Williams and a Rocket are our yardsticks
91 IF I HAD £340,000…
LJK Setright takes the (hypothetical)
half-million quid that he has saved by
not buying an F1, and spends it predictably
92 DEVICES AND DESIRES
The real beauty of the McLaren F1
lies deeper than its skin. We
photograph its wonderful components
98 TAXI DRIVER
The London taxi is 300 years old in
May. We speak to six characterful
cabbies, and look at the arduous process
they go through to gain the Knowledge
104 GIANT TEST
Four ways to cart your family or
friends around: Discovery, Renault
Espace, Passat Estate and Mitsubishi
Space Wagon. Which does the job best?
114 SEATS AT ALL PRICES – BUT
WHERE'S THE AUDIENCE?
By necessity, everyone's making
people-carriers. But who will buy them all?
116 TURIN SHOW
Richard Bremner's Gucci loafers
take another pounding at the
Turin Show. Attractions include the Mercedes
SLK roadster and the Alfa Romeo 145
122 A NEW ETHOS
We drive Pininfarina's Ethos 3. It's
shorter than a Cinquecento, but
seats six, and is the cleverest car at Turin
130 Subaru's unusual and unusually rapid Impreza Turbo tames the roads of Eire's wild west coast
74 Quite simply the fastest, most expensive, most uncompromisingly developed road car ever made, McLaren's F1 provides an awesome driving experience
140 PRIMAL SCREAM
Llewellyn drives a 1959 Fiat Abarth
Monza Bialbero 750 Gran Turismo
Record Monza Bialbero Zagato. A big name
for such a little car. It's a real gem, though
146 EVEN-MONEY FAVOURITE
Matt Bishop loves the new 1.8-litre
Mazda MX-5 so much that he vows
to win the money for it at the horses (and
dogs). As an ex-bookie, he's well qualified
167 THE GOOD, THE BAD AND THE UGLY
Saab's 900 Turbo Coupé arrives,
as does a bigger-engined Shogun and two
new Mazda MX-5s, one costing just £14,495
176 LOST IN AMERICA
Kistman takes an XJ12 to Florida. It
used enough fuel to launch a space
shuttle. His baby son didn't cry once on the
trip (but then he wasn't paying for the gas)
125 SCORING POINTS
Nine Punto show cars appeared at
the Turin Show, and we examine
four in detail: one's brilliant, one's good,
and one… well…
128 CABIN FEVER
Paul Horrell spends all day and all
night in a Renault Espace, and discovers
that it's an extremely eerie mode of
transport
130 FIRE ENGINES
Colin Goodwin flies around Ireland
in Subaru's well-bred 208bhp
Impreza Turbo 2000. It's a cracker, he says
136 LONG-TERM TEST: ROVER 620Si,
GOING GREEN
Rachel Butler commuted for seven
months in a Rover 600. Swift, stable,
trouble-free, it didn't put a foot wrong
116 One of the stars of the Turin Show, and one of the prettiest Mercedes-Benzes for years: the SLK