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Table of Contents
5 Agenda
Understanding Ford embargoes; apology to BMW
9 Sir!
Matters of the motoring moment, they’re in your letters
21 Frontline
Four diverse slants on the world of motoring
36 Oracle
International news from industry nerve-centres
58 Blackpool Eight
Roger Bell cuts loose in the Rover Vitesse-engined TVR 350i, the 140mph roadster with razor-sharp reflexes that takes the Tasmin even higher
64 Roadster Revivalists
There are new men at the top of TVR. John McCormick outlines their struggle to weather recent storms, discusses their hoped-for expansion
68 Wolfsburg Wonderwagen
The new Golf might be well-developed, but it won’t knock anybody’s eye out. Steve Cropley is impressed by its roadability and efficiency
72 Golf Game
Spare a thought for the achievements of the old VW Golf, which turned Wolfsburg from terrible unprofitability to envied success in a couple of years
74 Newcomers
Ford Orion
Escort Extended
Toyota Corolla
Both ways Fiat Ritmo Abarth
Power-house Lancia Prisma
Italian Orion
Lancia Delta Turbo
Blow-go
80 SCOOP!
Clock the new Super-Quattro, the alloy-engined, short wheelbase blaster which has 300bhp – 450bhp for the track – and costs as much as two Porsche Turbos
82 Mr Kim, Panther Protector
Gavin Green meets Young C Kim, the Korean businessman who recently took over the Panther concern – and is making it work at last
84 Pride of Byfleet
Panther’s Kallista, for all its Union Jack badge, has a Korean-made aluminium body and chassis to house its Ford engines. It’s much improved by them
90 Henry’s Head of High-Tech
Emmett Horton is a Ford resident expert on new-age materials and processes. He explains how plastics and ceramics will affect cars
94 The Cars That Didn’t Save VW
At Wolfsburg, they tried rather a motley selection of successors to the good old Beetle before, mercifully, they alighted on the Golf
96 Class of 1908
Ronald Barker, mounted on his own 1908 Napier, returns to the site of the ’08 French Grand Prix, near Dieppe, with a clutch of like minded enthusiasts
106 GIANT TEST
Renault 11GTL-v-Austin Maestro 1.3L-v-Ford Escort 1.3GL
A new, tough Frenchie meets Maestro and Escort, a pair of local hard-noses
122 Hearsay
David Rowlands on audio matters: he tests a JVC unit, surveys car-borne audio discs – and explains about getting ICE value in car options lists
133 The Good, The Bad And The Ugly
Our list of Britain’s new cars, with comments and home-truths that are too much for many car salesmen (even in August)
152 TR’s Eight-Ball
The V8 version of the Triumph TR7 was one BL sporty car that could have made the grade. Circumstances, not design faults, did it in