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Table of Contents
5 Agenda
How Panther's car fits the British sports car scene
6 Headlines
Things you need to know about the car business
17 Sir!
Diverse views from loyal readers; the best there are
29 Frontline
Carte Blanche for all four, not just George B
44 Oracle
Rumours, secrets, scoops, scandals and intrigue
74 New Panther Solo
Wraps off the remarkable new mid-engined sports car with terrific looks, fine handling, lots of room, and a price structure that starts around the £10,000 mark
80 Body Builders
These are the men who designed the Solo’s excellent exterior, and are crafting its cabin as this issue goes to press. Remarkably, they’ve achieved it all in a single year
84 Chassis Man
Len Bailey, outspoken designer of the Ford GT40 chassis, did the Panther’s sophisticated yet simple all-sheet steel design. He claims it could cope with 400bhp!
86 SCOOP! Renault 5 Latest
We show the new little car in several guises, and reveal that it takes a leaf out of VW’s Golf II book by looking much like the previous 5, but sleeker
88 Star Burster
Vauxhall’s Astra springs straight to the top of the hot hatchbacks tree with the 124mph GTE, the three-door sports version with plenty of go, but controversial looks
92 Astra Family
We look under the glossy flanks and the cabin tinsel at the modern design which makes Astra so good
94 NEWCOMERS
Alfa 90 At last, an Alfa to admire
Nissan Silvia Turbo Straight into Interesting
Toyota Camry/Carina Good, but so anonymous
Yugo 55 A sheep in wolf’s clothing
100 No-Frills 911
Porsches in Britain have not often been associated with bargain pricing — but this one can be
104 Bitter On The Advance
We drive the new two-seater Rallye Bitter on home territory, and talk to its builder
110 INTERVIEW Frank Costin
Meet the man who was already famous as a car aerodynamicist (and engineer) 30 years ago
113 Paddy Wagon
Frank Costin's Irish-made TMC Costin, shows that you can't keep a good car creator down
122 Same Again
Talking of sports cars, you'd be hard pressed to tell Chris Smith’s Westfield Eleven and Seven from the Lotus models they emulate. They’re better in many ways, though
128 Cars Of Ten Decades
LJK Setright on what men and cars have done to one another in 100 years. Now: 1936 to 1945
134 Winning Meet
Mark Waghorn, a middle-rank Formula Ford 2000 driver who explains how he keeps his racing equipe on the rails. Hurdle number one is sponsorship money
137 Starting Out
Chris Harvey has some of the hard truths about racing, but he explains the sequence through which great open-wheeler drivers make the break. Good luck…
138 GIANT TEST
Renault 18 Turbo-v-MG Montego-v-Cavalier 1.8SRI
We match the fastest of the new MGs with Renault’s blown 18 and the most sporting family Vauxhall
151 The Good, The Bad And The Ugly
Surveying Britain’s new cars and their prices in a pull-no-punches way that doesn’t suit all salesmen. Or all owners for that matter…
164 Tech
We prove the Vauxhall Astra GTE’s tops for Muscle Factor, explain the new GM principle of decoupled floorpans, and survey BL’s advanced computer design facilities
168 Council House GT40
Chris Harvey on the Lotus Europa, the car which combines exotic principles with low price