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TABLE OF CONTENTS

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COVER STORY

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ARE YOU EXPERIENCED?
These 25 cars, icons from the rich automotive tapestry of the past 50 years, are all you need to drive to be a car expert. From excellent to excrement, these cars tell you more about progress, stagnation and regress than anything else on four wheels

REGULARS

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UP FRONT

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NEWSDESK
Inside the new BMW 3-SERIES, why FORD is forced to wield the axe again (and why others will follow), ROVER sells a dummy with the “new” Mini, and DAEWOO’s sub-B contender spied in Sussex

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AROUND THE WORLD
Solihull expands apace, FORD aims LIMON at a UK market, BMW and LAND ROVER’s one-way exchange of expertise, PSA and life after Calvert, CAR clashes on scrapping incentives and one man’s supercar dream nears reality

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SIR!
The great sidelighths/headlight debate, the CERBERA is wonderful, so is the USA for nitrous driving, and a man with a terrible paint complaint

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COLUMNS
LJK Setright praises aircraft culture to the skies; one May mows a meadow, God is in the details says Bayley (for the 15th time) and Bulgin tries (with heartening success) to place a product, to place a Ford

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NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW HIM
A man who specialises in helmet jobs using a surgical scalpel and a certain amount of imagination

TESTS AND FEATURES

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DETROIT TECHNO
‘Paperless’ cars, ladder frames, New Edge designs numbers, the big bosses open up to CAR, and Georg Kacher feels the power

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MERCY KILLING
Rover’s desperate 800 struggles on in a market that’s left it way behind. Bremner makes a clear case for euthanasia

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JOCKS AWAY
Stewart Grand Prix begins the long, hard road to F1. Gavin Green reports on the team as they test with the rest at Jerez

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HATCHER’S BRITAIN
They were big in the ’80s and they’re big again. ROVER 200Vi, SEAT Ibiza 1.8i 16V and ALFA ROMEO 145 Twin Spark 1.8

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TROLLEY DE GRANDEUR
Do we really need the FORD EXPLORER to do nothing more than visit the supermarket?

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RUN OF THE MILLS
Straight-six by Jaguar and Mercedes: are so soon to disappear in favour of V6s. Is a tragedy or a brave new progress in a luxury sector hampered by tradition?

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JEWELS IN THE TOWN
Gavin Blight, priceless trinket maker and compulsive collector of American iron, puts his classic collection for an airing in Rome

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TIRED OLD FORMULA
Technological stagnation and failure of the spirit: Setright, a fond salute to light over might in Formula One

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IN UNIVERSAL APPEAL
The great age of the people’s car, a Golden Age? Bulgin’s progress report on the NISSAN MICRA, FIAT PANDA and FORD KA

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REMEMBRANCE DAY
Porsche is at great pains to eradicate memories of the hybrid 914, woe that her Boxster is born. But she shall not FORGET it

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KING OF THE ROADS
His name is Joey Dunlop; he is the best at racing motorcycles on street circuits. Long live the King!

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INSIDE LINE
The season of gods and goddums is upon us once again. Nigel Roebuck sorts the fleet from the naff

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LONG-TERM PRELUDE
LJK Setright has ended his eight-year obsession with one model of car. At last, he comes clean

THE GOOD, THE BAD AND THE UGLY

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NEWCOMERS
FORD MONDEO SATNAV
DAIHATSU APPLAUSE
FORD EXPEDITION
HYUNDAI ACCENT MVi
CITROEN SAXO VTR
VW POLO 1.0

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SECOND THOUGHTS
SAAB 900 3DR

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LONG-TERMERS
FORD GALAXY
LEXUS GS300 SPORT

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THE LOWDOWN
A mine of invaluable information

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SHOWROOM FLOOR
Britain’s top 20 best-selling cars in 1996

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TOP 10
Small-engined runabouts, never cursed or rallied (squire)

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GIANT TEST
Together at last. We capture the cars that have captured every driver’s imagination and pit them against each other in the heat of the Arizona desert. PORSCHE BOXSTER, MERCEDES SLK and BMW Z3 2.8 go at it hammer and tongs