Car & Driver - 1975

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January
Special Section - Winners And Losers 1974 (What better way is there to commemorate the year when we never needed winners more?) Road Tests - Capri II (Making a good super coupe even better); Plymouth Road Runner (A former wild stallion joins the herd); Mercedes 300D (The world's fastest Diesel and slowest $12,000 car) Outrage - C/D's Showroom Stock Sedan Challenge III (Bedard makes it two in a row while the readers eat crow, but it wasn't as easy as it looked) Nostalgia - Pontiac GTO: The Original Muscle Phenomenon (It was like losing your virginity, going into combat and tasting your first beer all at once); The Making Of Car And Driver (A "sporty car" magazine drives out of oblivion...in a Pontiac GTO) Preview Test - Audi 50 (More economical than a Beetle and more fun than a Mini) Competition - Independent Thinking (That's what it took to build a 6-wheel car and run it in the 1948 Indy 500); The Beauty And The Beast (Roger Penske's new Formula One car takes on one of the best USAC sprint cars) Readers' Choice Poll - Vote For The Best Cars In The World (Your chance to tell us what you think) Sport - Formula One (The championship decision); NASCAR (Grand National Bash); Off-Road (Bite-size Baja) Columns - Jean Shepherd (The latest status symbol: a faded price sticker); Warren Weith (Pass your driver's test, then learn how to drive); Patrick Bedard (An unlikeable win in an even more unlikeable car); William Jeanes (History usually reads a lot better than it played) Departments - Inside Car And Driver; Editorial; Letters; Classified Advertising; Advertisers' Index; For Your Information
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February
Special Section: Why The 55-MPH Speed Limit Won't Work - One Lap Of America (Over 7000 miles at just under 70 mph proves that the American Dream is alive and well); Is Anybody Out There Driving At 55 MPH? (Well, no, not really); How To Get Away With It (All you need is a citizen's band radio: the nation's truckers will do the rest) Road Tests - AMC Pacer (Conventional design be damned as Detroit offers up its first time urban transporter); Volvo 242 GL (Nothing less than the sedan of the future); Honda Civic CVCC (At last, the critics have a real-life saviour) Humor - The Denbeigh Detour (The factory-sponsored newsletter that insures all Denbeigh owners remain uninformed); Where The Rubber Meets The Eye (A quick test of your ability to ego-trip on sidewalks) Comparison Test - Showdown: Monza 2 + 2 versus Mustang II (What happens when Chevrolet and Ford meet head-on in the super coupe turf) Nostalgia - The Car Of The Year...In The Year That Never Was (The finest of the front-engine sports racers, the Birdcage Maserati was long on performance but short on accomplishment) Sport - Formula 5000 (Turbo charger); IROC (Pick of the litter); CSPRRC (Demise of the cat); Short Takes Columns - Brock Yates (The cold we all catch every time Detroit sneezes); Jean Shepherd (When the new car mystique turns mysterious); Bruce McCall (Ode to an aging Olds); Warren Weith (Getting a firmer grip on our machines) Departments - Inside Car and Driver (The rise and fall of the Silver Bullet); Editorial (Take a hog iron friend to lunch - in your car); Letters (Learning to love the 55-mph speed limit); Apart From The Crowd; Enthusiasts' Information Center; Classified Advertising; Advertising Index; For Your Information
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July
Special Section: Gala "Standard Of The World" Extravaganza - Comparison Test: Cadillac Seville vs Rolls-Royce Silver Shadow (Once you get used to figuring in cubic dollars); Opening Night In Seville Country (Champagne, canapes and enough Mercedes owners to make a dealer's blood run warm); Portfolio: A Time Of Grace (The lessons old Cadillacs can teach us); The Cadillac-Allard J2X - A Test Of Manhood (Why its creator, sydney Allard, wouldn't have it any other way) Road Tests - BMW 530i (Who says a compact sedan has to have a compact price); Toyota Corolla SR-5 (A Detroit solution to a Japanese problem) Technical - The Ultimate Tire Test (There's more to tires than meets the road); ...And The Ultimate Tire Tester (It doesn't need a car or driver) Feature - A Pilgrim's Progress (A Coast-to-Coast odyssey in search of how America and its love of sports cars has changed) Sport - Short Circuitry (Demanding well-rounded skills); If They Live, They'll Win (Calling all Americans); Short Takes Columns - Jean Shepherd (Appealing to the gypsy in all of us); Patrick Bedard (The day Detroit couldn't afford to sell cars); Brock Yates (A new version of the old cops-and-robbers game); Leon Mandel (How the west was won - and lost) Departments - Inside Car And Driver (Strap on a scuffed race helmet and test drive a Seville); Editorial (Tuning in justice on your CB radio dial); Letters (A return volley from the Bullet Hole People); For Your Information (VW Polo, Renalut 30TS); Reviews (A Yates novel, trucker's tales, miles-per-gallon and Le Mans microscopes); Classified Advertising
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August
Special Section: MG's Fiftieth Anniversary - A True Believer (To find out what MG really means, ask a man who owns more than 50 of them); Test: 1975 MGB (Maintaining the breed) Road Tests - Camaro Rally Sport (Grace under pressure); Mark Of Excellence: A Street Camaro The Way Donohue Wants It (A mother only a car could love); Datsun B-210 (An economy champion goes into training) Atrocities - The Cannonball Lives! (Our own modest way of telling the government what it can do with the 55-mph speed limit); Challange IV (Car and Driver's annual office outrage) Feature - What It Takes To Be A World Champion (Talent behind the wheel of a race car has nothing to do with it) Technical: Suspension Tune - Capri 2800 (When the going gets tough, the tough get tuning) Sport - Formula One (Showing the flag at Monaco); IMSA GT (Western two-step); NASCAR (Baby grand) Columns - Jean Shepherd (How to avoid turning prematurely orange); Leon Mandel (The man who never owned a TC); Warren Weith (Why you buy a car and how it's going to change); Bruce McCall (A car was what it was, not what it hoped to be taken for); Brock Yates (When the questions start to outnumber the answers) Departments - Inside Car and Driver (Survival doesn't necessarily depend on progress); Editorial (Why the masses have mass transit); Letters (Loving or leaving the Corvette); Classified Advertising; For Your Information (Mercedes-Benz 690SEL, Plymouth Arrow); Reviews (Exploring the fringes of car design, games businesses play, a year of Porsches and tales of an Indy mechanic); Enthusiasts' Information Center (Nothing but the facts)
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September Special Section: The Sedan Solution - When You Know Your Sports-Car Days Are Over (Six reasons why you don't have to give up the fun of driving just to get a back seat); Audi Fox (Speed on any course you choose); Chevrolet Nova LN (The ultimate in easy riding); Lancia Beta (High-winding luxury, Italian style); Mazda RX-4 (Smooth as a Wankel's whir); Opel 1900 (Getting a handle on handling); Saab 99EMS (For a taste of something different) Atrocity - Challenge IV (Special invitation to C/D's annual Whipyourass Weekend) Features - An American Celebration (If you listen closely, Indianapolis will tell you what your country is all about); Service With A Smile (A day in the life of a Highway Patrolman) Road Test - Pontiac Firebird Trans Am (Keeping the flame alive) Technical Tire Test - Small-Car Tires In The Heat Of Battle (Track-testing 15 different brands of high-performance rubber to see who gets the medals) Sport - Formula 5000 (Welcome to the bigtime); Le Mans 1975 (A four-hour race? Never); Le Mans 1955 (Racing's darkest day); Formula One (A new spirit) Columns - Patrick Bedard (Are you sure Superman started like this?); Bruce McCall (The late, great State of the Automobile); Leon Mandel (Gently into the fastest corner on memory lane); Jean Shepherd (The Fountain of Youth is no place to use a Dixie cup) Departments - In?side Car And Driver (Sticking with a winner); Editorial (Overkill in the Great Fuel Economy War); Letters (Outwitting J.C. Whitney); Enthusiasts'Information Center (Nothing but the facts); Classified Advertising; For Your Information (Sears' new gambit in the car market. Triumph Dolomite Sprint and police-car capers on the frontier); Reviews (A fuzzy look at the car culture, confessions of a sprint car addict, engines of tomorrow and what happens when science takes on the automobile)
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October
Speed Section: Detroit 1976 - Chevette: It Really Is About Time (What GM thinks it's doing); Inside Chevy's New "Foreign" Car (The concept is imported, but the hardware is all American); The Spirit Of '76 (General Motors, Ford and AMC give notice that they're ready for a banner year) Scandal - Challenge IV (Your last chance for bargain-price humiliation) Competition - Anything Monoco Can Do, Long Beach Can Do Better. Right? (How to get the Grand Prix circus to use your town) Features - Roadside Justice (The last American speed trap); Cosworth Vega: A Star Is Finally Born (All it took was five years and a couple of million dollars) Sport - World Championship For Makes (C'est la guerre); Formula 5000 (Broadley's unbeatable beast); USAC Dirt Championship (Ride to recovery); Turtle Racing (The old shell game) Columns - Brock Yates (If big league racing gets any more exciting...); Patrick Bedard (Why I might win Challenge IV); Jean Shepherd (The day Proust met the Tailgater - and survived); Warren Weith (What it costs to build a car) Departments - Inside Car And Driver (At long last, Detroit gets serious about small cars); Letters (Who needs fairness when we've got justice); Editorial (The end of the wine); Classified Advertising; For Your Information (Datsun 140-A, sizing up synthetic oil and Peugeot 604); Reviews (A novel that'll make it over the long haul, why Kaiser Frazer deserved to be fat, Arabs buying up General Motors and Packard nostalgia)
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November
Special Section: Official C/D Challenge IV Program - Choosing Our Weapon (Why we can't lose); The Upside-Down Club (Almost any number can play); Where It's At (How to find the free beer) Comparison Test - Alfetta GT Versus Lancia Beta Coupe (A bake-off between two traditional Italian dishes) Feature - Chrysler 1976 (The cars the company thinks it needs to survive) Technical - Detroit's New Technology (A closer look at the 1976 model year) Project Car - C/D's Turbocharger Project (An Opel under pressure); Choosing The Trappings Of Power (Not just another pretty face) Nostalgia - A Long And Winding Road (C/D's project-car past) Profile - Mean Is As Mean Does (It somehow seems right that NASCAR's Soapy Castles has a cemetery in his backyard) Sport - Mark Donohue (1937-1975); Drag Racing (Straight-line strength); Short Takes Columns - Patrick Bedard (The true power of the human mind); Brock Yates (Donohue - the good times remembered); Warren Weith (What's a poor Volvo to do alone in the Big City?); William Jeanes (Why faint if a cop stops you? Then again, why not?) Departments - Inside Car And Driver (Sending the boys to do The Man's job); Letters (Frankly, you guys give me a large pain); Editorial (Giving Detroit one more chance); Classified Advertising; For Your Information (Lotus Espril, inventing the Ethical Car and Fiat 128 3P); Reviews (Heavenly bodies, Nadar unexposed, the late Francois Covert and what Earth People think about cars)
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