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Cover Story - Cobra Comeback (Close enough to be kissing cousins) Road Tests - Buick Rivera T-Type (This T stands for unTamed); Renault Fuego Turbo (What? Another Fuego test?) Driving Impressions - Audi 100 (Ingolstadt's wind-tunel wonderkind) 4 x 4 Galore - MT Guide To Satisfaction In Traction (We're talkin' 4wd, Jackson); Ford Ranger (Dearborn's newest dirty player); Range Rover (If you really must go off-road, dahling); GMC Jimmy (Somewhere between Carter, Cagney and Conners); Mitsuishi Turbo Diesel (Mitsu's sand-dune samurai); Quattro-san II (The ongoing quest for Subaru-car. Or is it Superu?) Features - Car Of The Year 1983 (Introducting this year's title contenders); '83 1/2 Tempo / Topaz (Ford's newest front-drivers); Paris Auto Show (European Car Of The Year spoken here); Retrospect: 1964 Shelby-American Daytona Coupe (Gentleman, start your legends); 1983 EPA Ratings (Use these numbers for comparison) Motorsport - Caesar's Palace Grand Prix (Alboreto wins big. Keke wins bigger) Departments - Editor's Report (Have you hugged your car lately?); Letters (wither the left?); Detroit Report (Buick's back at the brickyard); International Report (V-car verity); FreeWheeling (It's only 55 on the books); Technologue (Diesel doubts); Competition Report (Little Al takes a big crown)
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Import Car Of The Year - Eleven Cars From Four Nations Fight It Out (Sophistication and refinement carry the day) Road Tests - Mid-American GT Revival (The 190-hp Monte Carlo SS geared up for NASCAR); Three-Flag Face-Off (Pontiac's STE vs. 528e, 5000 Turbo, Cressida Twin-Cam); '83 Honda Prelude (Big, beautiful body surrounds 2-carb 3-valve engine); VW Quantum GL5 (The flagship gets the Audi 5 and a posh injection); Quickor Mazda GLC (The G stands for gonzo motoring) Driving Impressions - Escape From Prague (Saab APC Turbo and MT editor undergo fuel Czech); Celica Replicant (Kent Racing builds a GTU terror) Features - MT's Ugly Kar Kompetition (All-time bottom 10); Lamborghini C340 Monoposto (Simply outstanding in its field); Retrospect: Lotus 15 Sports Racer (An elegant monument to Colin Chapman); Rememberance: Colin Chapman (An authentic automotive genius passes on> Departments - Editor's Report (Avanti (yes, Avanti) goes racing); Letters (Anarchy on the highways); Detroit Report (Buick's total electronicar); International Report (Fiat's comings and goings); FreeWheeling (Yer mudder wears diesel boots); Technologue (Spinning out); Competition Report (Little Al at 21)
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Cover Story - All-American GT's (ChryCo joins the new pony wars) Road Tests - BMW 318i (Finally, reality measures up to the image); '83 1/2 New Yorker (Chrysler's swank sedan puts it all up front); Volvo 760 GLE Turbo Diesel (Chapter one of a long run) Driving Impressions - Bitter SC (Why, Senator Opel. Is that really you?); Maserati Biturbo (Super, yes; but can they make enough?); VW Vanagon Wasserboxer (Liquid cooling makes a better van) Features - 1983 Geneva Show (Some light at the end of the recession); X1 Scirocco (Kamei sans kazi) MT al Fresco - The Ragtop Revue (On the road with every production convertible available today); Convertibles We'd Like To See (From Corvette to Countach) Retrospect - 1923 Avions Voisin Sport Victoria (Chic for the Sheik) Motorsport - Long Beach Grand Prix (They saved the best for last) Departments - Editor's Report (Goodbye, hello); Letters (Corvette commentary); Detroit Report (Diminutive De Villes); International Report (High Sierra: the XR4i); FreeWheeling (NHTSA cites fatality decline); Sound Advice (The Radio Shack alternative); Technologue (Pennsylvania not-so-crude); Competition Report (Monsoon over Miami)
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August
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Cover Story - Lincoln Mark VII LSC (Deutsch Mark from Dearborn) 1984 Sneak Preview - MT Scouts Team America (The coming model year as distilled from facts, probable facts, spy reports, hints and the occasional barefaced guess) Radar Detector Review - The Detectors (MT tests the things that go beep in the night); Radio Detection And Ranging (What it is, how it works); Radar And The GNP (We're talking big business here); Detector Convenience (Is it bigger than a breadbox?); Radar Training (Experts in just 1.5 hours); Radar Defense (Avoiding the bum rap) Road Tests - The Welterweight GT's (Honda Prelude vs. Shelby Charger vs. new Scirocco 1.8); '83 1/2 Nissan Pulsar NX Turbo (Faster, yes. Quicker - well, ya got a minute?); '84 Ford EXP Turbo (Overpowering the anemic image) Driving Impressions - Mazda 626 LTS (Here it is in black tie); Volvo 760 Turbo (Posh with pace) Features - La Cucaracha (Can we see your green card, Senor Bug?); Project X1/9 (Frugal fixes yield a faster Fiat); Parody Parts (Truth in packaging? Not always) Retrospect - 1929 Mercedes-Benz SSKL (Machinery made in Valhalla) Departments - Editor's Report (Highway robbery); Letters (Fast and furious); Detroit Report (GM plans midi-van); International Report (New F model from Jag); FreeWheeling (Your buying priorities revealed); Sound Advice (Pioneer KEX-65 Supertuner II); Technologues (Road-testing the Citation); Competition Report (Petty sets new NASCAR record)
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Cover Story - 1984 Pontiac Fiero (The excitement division pulls away from the herd); Fierotech (Revolutionary spoken here); Fiero Cutaway (The see-through P-car); Fiero Design (Evolution of the improbable dream) 1984 First Drives - Toyota Van Wagon (Not only timely but trick); Chrysler New Yorker Turbo (Mopar brings its boost to Broadway); Jeep Cherokee (The XJ family's new mid-mudder) Road Tests - BMW 318i vs. Toyota Celica GT-S (What's the feeling really worth?); Pontiac 2000 Sunbird Turbo (Finally, some work for the J-wonker); Mercury Cougar LS 5.0 (Posh with paradox) Long-Term Test - Olds Cutlass Ciera ES Diesel (First report) Driving Impressions - Ford Sierra XR4i (This Euro winner wants a green card); Ferrari 208GTBi (Can't afford a 308? Try this one); Rabbit GTI Turbo (More hustle for the hurry-up here) Feature - Corvette Convertible (You saw it here first) Retrospect - 1954 Fiat 5V Zagato Coupe (Otto vu meets monocoque) Motorsport - 67th Indy 500 (Sneva finally snares the big one); Detroit Grand Prix (Cosworth's last stand) Special Section - Auto Sounds '83 (Car stereo - what's hot, what's not) Departments - Editor's Report (Persistence of romance); Letters (JT's or GTO's?); Detroit Report (GM sez "R" day will come); International Report (Here comes the new Rabbit); FreeWheeling (NHTSA fact-fudging); Technologue (Rx for turbo burn); Competition Report (Detroit debuts homegrown GTPs)
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Cover Story - 1984 Nissan 300ZX Turbo (Sales success story No. 3), 300ZX Powerplant (Nissan's six-shooter: loaded for the horsepower wars), Nissan 300ZX Turbo Cutaway (The Z revealed) 1984 First Drives - Ford Mustang GT (Henry's true King of the Corral), Toyota Corolla (When push came to shove, they built it both ways), Cadillac Eldorado Convertible (Can this be the last of the last?), Dodge 600ES Turbo (Chryco's Jekyll and Hyde ride) Road Tests - Mercedes-Benz 190E 2.3 (The littlest kampfwagen that could), Mitsubishi Cordia Turbo (Striving for status in a crowded field), BMW 533i Turbo (A taste of pressurized nirvana), Dodge Colt Vista (The bus stops here) Driving Impressions - Lotus Espirit Turbo (A low-flying limey rattles Maranello), Transamborghini: Posey's Bandit (There I was on the high banks of Daytona), Aston Martin Lagonda (An ultimate statement for the incurably rich) Feature - Honda CRX Preview (Sports car thrills, econocar bills) Tech Features - Volvo Intercooler (High-vitamin hardware from Goteburg) Retrospect - 1932 Marmon V-16 Seven-Passenger Phaeton (The 100-mph behemoth) Departments - Editor's Report (Baby, you're the greatest), Letters (Radar reverberations), Detroit Report (Rear-drive M-van from Chevy), International Report (Toyota goes to Lotus-land), FreeWheeling (This homebuilt does it sideways), Technologue (In search of axle ratio), Competition Report (Holbert's quest for excellence
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