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Table of Contents
5 AGENDA
While Mazda can split out new sports cars whenever it wants, poor old Porsche hasn’t had a truly new car in over a decade. And why the European car industry has had all the protection, but from the Japanese, that it deserves
7 NEWS
Photos of the new drop-head Rover 200 and next year’s Vauxhall Nova. Plus the most important industry news
17 INTERVIEW
GM Europe boss Jack Smith on killing the Senator and stopping Saab
20 IN BRITAIN
Details of the EC agreement on restricting Japanese car sales. But why weren’t the interests of the consumer taken into account?
24 ORACLE
Georg Kacher on the European big car in the ’90s, of both Ford and General Motors
28 NEWCOMERS
Vauxhall Astra Sleek, competent page 28
Citroën AX GT More power, less panache page 34
Subaru SVX handsome old Japanese coupe page 36
Audi 80 Facelifted and improved page 38
Vesel V6 the wonderful Yanik supercar page 43
Changing around the name, that’s the one page 43
46 SIR!
Our ever-lively letter pages. This month, why do we excuse the failings of Italian supercars?
54 SOAPBOX
Reader Colin Anstey on the sensible charms of elderly British saloons
60 FRONTLINE
Stephen Sutcliffe salutes the late Sochiro Honda, our Bicentenary, and the effects of news days
Digby, in London, finds that not everything Ford does is Big in Britain. He even levels an unusual Mini
70 HATCH ATTACK
Mazda MX-3 versus Renault Clio 16V versus Toyota MR2 versus Peugeot 205GTI. Can the best of Europe’s hot hatchbacks stand up to the Japanese?
80 ON THE OHM STRAIGHT
Paul Horrell drives a really impressive new electric car, designed in Britain. It goes on sale in the US in only 18 months, which should make it the world’s first practical electric car to hit the road
84 THE FUTURE OF THE ELECTRIC CAR
Georg Kacher on where the motor industry is at, when it comes to electric-powered cars
88 HOT HATCHES : THE NEXT GENERATION
We test the new GTI breed: the new Golf GTI, Escort RS2000, latest Vauxhall Astra GSi and Rover’s powerful new 16-valve 220 GTI
104 HULLABALOO
LJK Setright goes banging in an intriguing new sauna machine that is as novel as it is beautiful
112 MW IT WORKS?
This month: the workings of the VW VR6 engine, how a catalyst purifies your exhaust, and the low-down on fuel injection
114 SPECIAL K
Richard Bremner drives the new basic Caterham, still as charming and exciting as ever – and now powered by Rover’s smooth K-series unit
120 WILD THING
Caterham’s rival, Westfield, has somehow managed to shoehorn a Rover V8 into one of its cars. Roger Bell is both exhilarated, and impressed
124 BLACKPOOL SCHLOCK
Russell Bulgin, Ferrari Testarossa-mounted, uses the only car in the world to conjure a little magic
126 INSIDE LINE
The passing meme of the greatest British Formula One drivers, from Hawthorn and Moss, to modern day
128 A FLAT CONCERTO
It wasn’t such a bad car, but our long-term Honda Concerto, but it was infuriating at times, and never better than dull to drive
134 PRE-OWNED
James Ruppert gives the gen on buying a used Mazda RX-7, and samples two Mazda 323s
137 THE GOOD, THE BAD AND THE UGLY
Usual Carpages tables, as everything new car on sale today in Britain
140 JUST CARS
Richard Bremner is not surprised that the Europeans have failed to crack the US car market