Description
Car Magazine – July 1984
Featuring the 1984 Rover 200 and 1985 Rover XX (Cover Issue)
Good Condition – Plastic Protective Covering Included
This listing is for an original July 1984 issue of Car Magazine, featuring the 1984 Rover 200 and the 1985 Rover XX on the cover. The magazine is in good condition, and the exact item shown in the photographs is the one you will receive. Please review all pictures for condition details. Combined shipping is available upon request, and all items are shipped with a protective plastic covering.
This issue delivers a wide-ranging mix of automotive news, reviews, design insights, industry commentary, and international motoring features at a defining moment in Rover’s development history.
Table of Contents (as printed in the magazine)
5 Agenda
Scoop! GBU under fire, plus other gripping stuff
6 Headlines
News, scoops, pictures, rumours, intrigue, facts
15 Sir!
About the best collection of letters we’ve ever had
22 Frontline
Barbs, blurb and brilliance from our foursome
40 Oracle
All the world’s automobile news that’s fit to print
70 Rover Revolution
There’s big change ahead of Rover: first the 200 Series and then the terrific new XX, the car sketched here. It’s British, it’s Japanese, it’s good
76 Hush-power Half-pint
Rover’s version of the Honda Civic four-door—good-looking, luxurious, roomy, and almost like a little limo. Acclaim, move over
79 Going One Better
ARG’s Mark Snowdon explains the company’s policy on building a new small Rover and how it fits into the European car scene
80 Sculpture By Axe
Meet Royden Axe, ARG’s chief of design, who returned from Chrysler two years ago and is now finishing the ’85–’86 Rover XX
84 ’85 Volkswagens
Golf 16V, Scirocco with the same engine, a hotter Polo, a revised Passat, plus 4WD models
86 Roaring Twenties
The exotic-car threshold sits at £20,000—Lotus Turbo Esprit, Audi Quattro, and Jaguar XJS 3.6 all live there
94 The Yank Tank Goes On
Spy photos reveal GM’s line-up projection through 1990—and it all looks familiar
96 Newcomers
Saab 9000 Competence
Merc 190 2.3-16 – Fast
Fiat Abarth 130TC – GTi-buster
Opel Senator – Electro-dash
Argenta VX – Terrible
Toyota Supra – Better
104 MAN and Superman
Roger Bell drives a 4WD Paris–Dakar Porsche 911 and then its MAN support truck
110 Cars Of Ten Decades
LJK Setright reviews the relationship between man and car from 1906 to 1915
120 Cherished Numbers
Viv Hereford explores the folklore, sale, and preservation of valuable number plates
134 Freaks
David Taylor surveys some of the world’s strangest and weakest-kneed cars—and finds the humor in them
140 One Lap of America
Ian Fraser logs 8,700 miles in seven days during the latest Cannonball-style US marathon, driving a Saab 900 Turbo 16
148 Tech
Tyres, grip, and durability—rapid advancements across major manufacturers
153 The Good, The Bad And The Ugly
A controversial price-list ranking cars according to the magazine’s own prejudices
166 On The Shelf
Ian Fraser reviews the latest car books, sorting the worthwhile from the pot-boilers
168 Cyclops
Chris Harvey finds one of the rare Rover 75s with a single grille-mounted foglamp—and its dedicated owner
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