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Table of Contents
COVER STORY
‘These are cars that the nation cares deeply about. The Range Rover and Jaguar XJ6 have a whiff of myth about them’
40 CROWN DUEL
Forget that one can go off road and one can’t: the new Range Rover and Jaguar XJ are competing in the same market. Russell Bulgin puts the two together
REGULARS
5 UP FRONT
Patriotic praise for our cover cars and admiration for an Audi
6 ORACLE
News of FORD’s radical sub-Fiesta car, CITROËN’s striking Xantia-family compact car, RENAULT’s mini-ESPACE and FORD’s plans for Jaguar. Plus, FERRARI’s renewed 512TR … now called the F512M – and CATERHAM’s new sports car
67 SIR!
One of us is accused of being a yob, another a xenophobe
85 COLUMNS
May is at sixes and twelves, Kitman visits VW, Bulgin wants hot MPVs and Setright derides traffic-calming measures
156 INSIDE LINE
Nigel Roebuck looks at the many problems for Benetton. Having ignored black flags, missing filters and a Polo listing, the world champ is under pressure
192 STAB IN THE BACK
Self-confessed company-car snob Nick Swallow launches an attack on … company car snobs
TESTS AND FEATURES
50 AT CLOSE RANGE
Richard Bremner talks to the men who had the tricky task of replacing the RANGE ROVER
54 WHAT’S NEW PUSSYCAT?
Gavin Green dons his white coat and looks at the changes that lie beneath the new XJ’s skin
58 BLOW BY BLOW
How the new JAGUAR XJR is developed; Gavin Green is blown away by the performance
94 MADE TO MAKE YOUR MOUTH WATER
Peter Dron drives Vauxhall’s new Tigras coupe through northern Spain. It’s grrreat
104 DARE YOU BUY A BRITISH BANGER?
Go on, have a flutter on a ’60s passion play: They’re gaining a look at its lags, James Ruppert takes a look at what they cost
108 THIS BANGER’S A SMASH
Swibson spends a few days commuting in a Rover P5B
112 GIANT TEST
Jeep GRAND CHEROKEE v MITSUBISHI SHOGUN v RANGE ROVER’s new world
120 WHERE THERE’S MUCH THERE’S BRASS
Stephen Bayley weighs up the Range Rover’s transformation from turf-trotter to toff-toter
THE GOOD, THE BAD AND THE UGLY
163 NEWCOMERS
RANGE ROVER 2.5DT
JAGUAR XJ6 3.2 SPORT
PEUGEOT 106 XSi
FORD ESCORT XR3i 16V
VAUXHALL ASTRA 1.6 16V
FIAT PANDA COLOUR
SAAB 900 V6
PORSCHE 911 CARRERA 4
AUDI A8 4.0
MITSUBISHI SHOGUN V6
PEUGEOT 306 XND
PORSCHE 911 TIPTRONIC S
188 LONG-TERMERS
CITROËN ZX TD
ALFA ROMEO 2000 GTV
190 SECOND THOUGHTS
ALFA ROMEO 164 V6 24V
AUDI S2 ESTATE
126 FORMIDABLE!
A quaking Mark Gillies takes the 620bhp Bugatti EB 110SS to the Nürburgring circuit
132 THE GREAT ESCAPE
TV journalist Michael Kirch bought a MERSEN MARA for £150 and then drove it to Bosnia to rescue three friends
136 WHODUNNIT?
Detective-sergeant Brenner finds the culprits in the case of ‘the terribly ugly FORD SCORPIO’
142 BEAUTY IS MORE THAN SKIN DEEP
Setright sees the Metet of the ARTA by the ARTA; its sheer beauty, its huge body structure
146 PUSSY GALORE
Gregg Bishop on Jaguars that has both sheen and depth
152 THE RELENTLESS PURSUIT OF PERFECTION
Toyota has moved its game forward with the new LEXUS