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Table of Contents
5 AGENDA
Fraser provides examples of what happens when traffic police are given a free hand
6 NEWS
New Vauxhall Nova as coupe and hatchback; Renault’s 306 baby car and bigger Rancho, too. Plus, official shots of the Toyota Carina and Nissan Micra, both to be built here
17 INTERVIEW
The boss of Subaru, a firm in deep trouble, proposes solutions to his woes
20 IN BRITAIN
IBC is half Japanese, builds a lot of cars in Luton, is a success, and is unknown. Richard Feast reports, and checks ’91 UK sales for all makers
24 ORACLE
What Saab will be up to for the rest of the decade, including details of next year’s new 900
28 NEWCOMERS
Alfa155 Fiat design, Alfa lease page 28
Ford Escort 93/0 said name, new standard page 34
Jaguar X-JR-S Sportier XJ-S? We like it page 38
BMW 3-series coupe joins the saloon; good page 42
Merc changes 300E responds to Lexus page 47
Audi 80 ride range of worthy dullards page 52
Renault 19 buys burgs turbolessed page 57
61 SIR!
Thoughts from readers on Japan’s industry. We’re too arrogant, says one; but maybe we’re too soft (on ourselves) for our jobbish writing
67 SOAPBOX
Reader Peter Sampson recalls the day a child ran in front of his car
71 FRONTLINE
Car columnists who don’t toe the line: LJK Setright, George Bishop, Russell Bulgin, and Phil Llewellin
80 COMING UP TRUMPS
Richard Bremner drives the first completed AC Ace; a new engine; open two-seater from a British Ford subsidiary
88 HEAD TO HEAD
But the wonderful Ace may never get proper range or acceptance, because of intrinsic cost-squeeze. Graham Robson weighs in with final verdicts on head to head
92 A ROUND OF GOLFS
Brett Fraser gets behind the wheel of the new Golf GTI and compares it with its Mk1 and Mk2 forebears. Golf test because thrills are not enough
100 BOWLED OVER
George Bishop was hit by a Daimler as a child, and reckons that was the trigger for a lifelong obsession with the motor car
102 DETROIT SHOW
Where the US car makers fought the recession with their best show for years
106 THE NEW FORD CAPRI
Ford chose Detroit to launch its new US-market Probe, a car that will eventually come here in right-hand-drive form, possibly wearing a great old nameplate
108 NOT WORTH THE WEIGHT
The new Audi 80 quattro V6 is a fine car indeed, yet its excess weight pervades its character and blunts its appeals, says Paul Horrell
110 PUGILISTS
The snappy new Peugeot 106 XSI tackles its tigred twin, the Peugeot 205 GTI. Brett Fraser referees the internecine struggle
114 SPEED KINGS
Phil Llewellin goes on an odyssey around the British sites where world land and water speed records were broken. He drives the latest Locust Cattermole, a machine faster than any of the record cars
122 WHEELS
Snapshot reviews of cars we’ve driven lately
124 STOVERKILL
Mitsubishi will soon import into Britain its 3000GT, one of the most high-tech supercars known to man. Roger Bell reports
130 INSIDE LINE
Nigel Roebuck’s form guide to the 1992 GP season. If you’re a Coloni fan, don’t read it
134 LONG-TERM TEST: MINI THE MINX
Rachel Butler loved her Mini Cooper, however hard it tried to put her off by breaking crevior. Editor adores new metal
140 ORIENT EXCESS
In Japan, fanaticism for the Mini reaches ever new levels. Peter Nunn explains
144 THE GOOD, THE BAD, AND THE UGLY
‘Our new-car guide to make the salesmen shudder.’ Said CAR. November 1996. We think that’s still true
160 JUST CARS
Richard Bremner fulminates over Honda’s stinginess, as revealed in the Civic VTi