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Table of Contents
4 Headlines Our distillation of the month’s happenings
11 Agenda Scenesetter: the story behind the big stories
17 Sir! Well, we didn’t expect you to agree all the time
29 Frontline Opinion, interpretation, innuendo – and poetry
43 Oracle Our men in touch with the machinations abroad
RED LETTER DAY
83 Countach Comes Home The Briton at the head of the rush for the new 48valve Lamborghini collected his 183mph, £68,000 missile with a co-driver. That was our Steve Cropley
92 Testarossa Ferrari builds the world’s other really great supercar. Our man Kacher took the beast on to the test track at Fiorano in snow. It’s a story of courage and exhilaration
100 Whispering Gallery The news from Geneva that was most important was not that which was on show. Our report pre-empts new cars that will be on the stands in a year or two
104 Scorpio Meets Its Rivals Ford’s new Granada may be good but how does it compare? We have hurled it down German autobahns in pursuit of the Saab 9000 and Merc 230E
112 Discount War Never has the motorist had better hold over car dealers. So great is the overcapacity that price discounts are massive. Ours is a make-by-make guide to bargains
118 Paul Ford’s Farm The man who sells nearly new cars out of a farmyard at prices so competitive he does not even have to advertise his deals. He talked to us… reluctantly
120 Newcomers BMW M635CSI storming back from Nice; Montego Turbo handles exceptional power well; Rover 216 is still jittery; Colt Starion, good shot; Visa diesel OK
128 Lost Love He who holds the evergreen Fiat X1/9 in high esteem will be broken-hearted by the arrival of the Toyota MR2. It’s just too good for the Italian job, says John McCormick
132 Master Class Our man David Minton comes indoors from his motorbikes and takes a top class driving lesson in four-wheelers. Who better to tutor than ace racer John Watson?
138 Cosworth Goes Home While the Countach was rushing inward from Italy, the 2.3-16 Mercedes was in full song heading outward to Stuttgart. Gavin Green was at the wheel
146 Super Scrapper There’s a man in France who’s job is to take acres of cars and turn them in to a stockpile of 2,000,000 spare parts. It’s really an assembly plant in reverse
160 Books Ian Fraser pulls down a handful of recent releases and awards them rosettes and raspberries in almost equal measure. There’s a good guide to buying your new car abroad
165 The Good, The Bad And The Ugly The only price guide that tells it like it is. Not just the specifications and prices but also CAR’s view of whether the thing is worth having at all
180 Tech Viscous couplings might sound like something extremely modern, but in fact the original concept was devised back in 1912. We also update you on the catalyst row
184 Back Page The Godfather of all today’s supercars must be the original Countach. Chris Harvey looks into the archives to recall the shock of the 1972 projectile’s debut