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Table of Contents
COVER STORY
34 PORSCHE BOXSTER
It’s not often a new Porsche hits the streets, but after much chopping and changing, the showroom Boxster is here. Georg Kacher gets behind the wheel
REGULARS
11 UP FRONT
16 NEWSDESK
FORD’s new Escort reveals itself, LAMBORGHINI’s latest DIABLO runs but certainly can’t hide, ALFA ROMEO delays 166 in favour of 156 and the MONDEO gets a semi-Scorpio facelift (don’t panic, it’s not that bad)
27 AROUND THE WORLD
Woe is LOTUS, return of the all-American hero, AUDI’s techno tour de force, RENAULT’s mediocre motors, Italy’s surrender to the Americans (in styling), and Japan’s headlong dive into the past
71 SIR!
European car makers deserve what’s coming to them, will anyone please let Aston die in peace, how you would all avoid Devon, and more thoughts on the very last gallon of petrol
91 COLUMNS
Setright muses on the beauty of bespoke, May values and berates, Bayley ponders on nuts, and Ruppert sees the future in a Huddersfield street
178 NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW HIM
He’s as hard as nails and keeps himself very much to himself
TESTS AND FEATURES
46 OVER TO ROVER
After our chilling revelations about BMW’s view of the Rover deal, Tom Purves, Rover’s ex-BMW marketing chief, puts the Brit’s side of the story
52 CATERHAM 21 v LOTUS ELISE
Can Caterham’s seductive new 21 steal some of the Elise thunder? Paul Horrell finds out
62 THE A-DREAM
MERCEDES is back in business, putting its customers into the baby A-Class, but Horrell examines the car, the concept and talks to Bruno Sacco, design chief
76 ROLLS ROLE
LJK Setright and Mark Graham drive the new ROLLS-ROYCE SILVER DAWN and deliver decidedly different verdicts on the virtues of the marque
84 NOT-ROD
The PLYMOUTH PROWLER is Chrysler’s streetwise factory custom car, Georg Kacher drives it
98 GIANT TEST
New VW Passat versus new NISSAN PRIMERA versus new PEUGEOT 406. Traffic calming (the 406) and papa-class is becoming ever more of an insult
110 IT’S A BRAND LIFE
How will Hartmut Warkuss, VW’s chief designer, keep a separate identity for VW in the multi-marque VW empire?
114 FOREST YUMP
Goodwin and Horrell rally a works SKODA Felicia through deepest Wales. They navigate, they aviate, they…
120 BUFFERS’ DAY OUT
He came, he saw, he concurred. James Ruppert immerses himself in the strange and frightening world of obsession and footballers
126 JOBS FOR LIFE
Sergio Scaglietti started out – and indeed finished – his career wielding a hammer for Enzo Ferrari
130 IN THE TRACKS OF THE GREATS
From Reims to Spa Francorchamps to the Nürburgring in a Donca Viper GTS. Roger Bell relives some of the great races with Phil Hill, Brian Redman and Paul Frère
138 LONG-TERM TEST
Our MAZDA 323F was massively entertaining, but it had a demisting ventilation problem
144 INSIDE LINE
Nigel Roebuck on moves to get the racing back into Formula One
THE GOOD, THE BAD AND THE UGLY
149 NEWCOMERS
TOYOTA LANDCRUISER
CHRYSLER VOYAGER
BMW 5-SERIES
BENTLEY BROOKLANDS
MITSUBISHI CARISMA
FORD SCORPIO 2.3
159 SECOND THOUGHTS
NISSAN TERRANO II
161 LONG-TERMER
RENAULT MEGANE COUPE
161 FINAL DRIVE
VOLKSWAGEN PASSAT
165 THE LOWDOWN
A mine of information, a wealth of opinion
177 SHOWROOM FLOOR
Saloon depreciation
177 TOP 10
Forecourt fiascos