Road & Track - 1993 Magazines

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April Features - Long-Term Introduction: Ford Probe GT (Will this home-run hitter be able to hit the long-ball over the long haul?); Skate Of The Art (Simplicity, light weight and a 210-bhp rotary engine make the do-it-yourself Maxton Rollerskate a rolling rocket); Not Your Average Tricycles (Submitted for your scrutiny from our "Oddity is the Best Policy" file: The Sylph and the Suitcase Car); New Views On Vintage (Chrysler President Bob Lutz does the California Mille Miglia in an exceedingly fitting 1955 Chrysler 300); Long-Term Wrapup: Hyundai Elantra (The blessings of a warranty: Looking back on the Elantra's year through morose-colored glasses); Ethos-Orbital Prototypes (Pininfarina's exploratory roadster; a mid-engined sports car with a 3-cylinder 2-stroke powerplant) Road Tests - Mercedes-Benz 600SEC (If you comparison-shop against this ultimate V-12 luxury coupe, you'll be looking at luxury condominums); Subaru Impreza L (Subaru's newest can-do subcompact comes dressed in a fresh suit of armor, ready to do battle in the Nineties); JPL Rocky IV (Mr. Wizard conquers the Martians; the outer space cases at Jet Propulsion Laboratory create an explorer for the red planet) First Drives - Buick Park Avenue Ultra (Buick's ultimate Ultra offers luxury with a supercharged v-6, 16-inch wheels and a firmer suspension); 1994 GMC Sonoma (Fresh out of finishing school, this compact is light-years away from the 3-box buckboard that trucks used to be); Mitsubishi Diamante Wagon (Up from the land Down Under, Mitsubishi's station wagon prides itself on luxury, comfort and roominess) Competition - Carefree Competition (The 1957 Grand Prix of Morocco; Rob Walker fondly remembers a time when GP racing ran on inspiration and elan) Columns - Miscellaneous Ramblings (A basic call to consciousness to drivers everywhere in hopes of curing the narcolopsy of the highway); Side Glances (It is spring, when a good map is the sirens' song calling a young man's fancy toward wanderlust and road trips); About This Sport (Charlotte's Modia Tour throws open the doors to the garages of some of NASCAR's most competitive racing teams); Inside Formula 1 (Bringing the gavel down on the 1992 season, Dan Knutson picks the highs and lows, and unearths a few choice quotes); Inside IndyCar (Jeremy Shaw assesses Michael Andretti's chances in F1 and welcomes Nigel Mansell to the glory days of IndyCar racing) Departments - People & Places; Letters To The Editor; Years Ago; Ampersand; Reviews; Tech Tidbits; Technical Correspondence; Road Track Summary; Time & Place; Showcase; Market Place; PS
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May Features - When Lease Can Be More (Following a path of "leased" resistance? Here's a primer on the ins and outs of leasing a car); Malaysia's Trans-Peninsula Rally (Indiana Sammy braves the Monsoons of Doom and the evil Jungle of Scary Photographers); Salon: 1953 Kurtis K500 Indianapolis Roadster (In which Bill Vukovich wins back-to-back Indy 500 races in the early Fifties); Update: Long-Term Cars (Checking in on the lives and times of our Mazda RX-7, Jeep Grand Cherokee Limited and Mercedes-Benz 400E); Along The Route Of The Aggressive Bunny (Paris to Monaco: Pack your Baedeker's, your appetite and your sense of adventure) Road Tests - Little Squirts (Concentrating on fun and finances, we rate 10 sportabouts with a little help from our friends, the R&T readers); Dinan BMW 5-Series (Tuner Steve Dinan gives you two ways to reach for 400 bhp in a 5-Series BMW: the 535i Turbo and M5) First Drives - Ford Mondeo (From Europe, Paul Frere offers a sneak preview of North America's next-generation Ford Tempo and Mercury Topaz) Columns - Miscellaneous Ramblings (Any youth can be a Phil Hill, Barney Oldfield or Stroker Ace, all it takes is a good book and an imagination); Side Glances (The anxious observer combs the "for sale" car sheets, hoping prices will come down a bit more to meet his lifestyle); About The Sport (Always remember to finish what you started: P.J. Jones has one of the best days of his life in Daytona); Inside Formula 1 (Williams is again the team to watch this year, but if you don't keep an eye on the rest, you may miss something); Inside IndyCar (American Honda versus IndyCar: The first round of the 1994 series is fought not on the bricks, but in the boardrooms) Departments - People & Places; Letters To The Editor; Years Ago; Ampersand; Time & Place; Road Test Summary; Tech Tidbits; Technical Correspondence; Reviews; Showcase; Market Place; PS
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July Features - Ford Mustang Mach III (The shape of steeds to come? Ron Sessions drives a supercharged teaser Mustang that hints at the 1994 model); Salon: Porsche 908/031 (Brian Redman remembers the car that became Porsche's entry into the "big-dog's" level of Le Mans' racing); Long-Term Update (A long winter is followed by a summer in our L-T Mercedes-Benz 400E, Jeep Grand Cherokee and Ford Probe GT); Long-Term Wrapup (With hardly a dement in nearly 34,000 miles, our sturdy Surburban finishes its tour of duty with flying colors); Owner Survey Questionnaire (Calling all owners of Infiniti Q45s and Lexus LS 400s, and 1991 or newer Acura Legends and Ford Tauruses) Road Tests - Porsche 911 Turbo 3.6 (Where can an enthusiast go when he wants the fat power of a turbo with almost none of the tag? Porsche); Automatic SHO-Down (Ford's Taurus SHO Automatic takes on the Dodge Intrepid, Lexus ES 300, Nissan Maxima, BMW 325i and VW Passat); Chevrolet Camaro V-6 (Here is the current 6-cylinder definition of a Camaro: dressed to kill, but two cylinders short of a party) First Drives - 1994 Audi Cabriolet (Ingolstadt hopes for an Indian summer of sales in the fall when it brings this drop-top 4-seater to the U.S.); Ruf 911 BTR 2 (Take one Porsche 911 Turbo 3.6, increase the displacement to 3.8 liters, then get out of the way); Isuzu Rodeo V-6 (Isuzu's own sohc 3.2-liter V-6 makes its best-selling sport utility even sportier and more utilitarian) Competition - Lion In The Tiger's Den (At Phoenix, Nigel Mansell takes a course in oval-track architecture, studying a wall from the outside in...) Columns - Miscellaneous Ramblings (In appreciation of Paul Frere and Porsche, a classy European writing about a classic European carmaker); Side Glances ("Real" racing versus vintage racing: in the first, winning is everything, and in the second, everyone's a winner); About This Sport (If you have the right foot and the left brain (driving talent and business sense), then PROsearch may be for you); Inside Formula 1 (Senna delights his hometown crowd at a rainy Brazilian GP as black clouds continue to follow Michael Andretti); Inside IndyCar (Paul Tracy dominates in Long Beach despite his unwitting participation in Goodyear's run-flat tire program) Departments - People & Places; Letters To The Editor; Years Ago; Ampersand; Reviews; Tech Tidbits; Time & Place; Technical Correspondence; Road Test Summary; Showcase; Market Place; PS
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August Features - 1994 Porsche 911 (A sneak preview and drive of the car that has to be good enough to see Zuffenhausen safely through to 1996); Confessions Of An Exotic-Car Enthusiast (It turns out that, in the Sixties, North Carolina was a near-perfect place in which to grow up); Long-Term Intro: Cadillac Seville Touring Sedan (Can the car that shook off Cadillac's ill reputation sustain the magic for a year?); Miller's Tale (Excerpts from Griffith Borgeson's new book on "the greatest creative figure in the history of the American racing car") Road Tests - Glorious Excess (Three aftermarket super-tuners turn the wicks up on a Mitsubishi 3000GT VR-4, a Mazda RX-7 and a Nissan 300ZX); Lexus GS 300 versus Saab 9000 Aero (Kind of like being invited to spend the weekend at a party with Akira Kurosawa and Bjorn Borg) First Drives - 1994 Accura Integra Sport Coupe & Sport Sedan (More power, better handling and braking? Sounds like the evolution of an Accura, all right); BMW 325i Convertible (BMW builds the kind of car that the all-knowing Creator of the Universe had in mind when he invented summer); Vector Avtech WX-3 Prototype (Does the nomenclature stand for "Wretched Excess" or "Wild Excitement" (times three), or a bit of both); Ford Probe LX (You can tell a lot about a family by how it treats its meeker members, and the base Probe comes from a good family); Autozam AZ-1 (Another case of love at first shift: Our Engineering Editor meets a tiny car that carries an enormous fun factor) Technical - Technology Update: H2 4 U? (A Jekyll-and-hydrogen tale of the pros and cons of using the lightest of gases as an alternate fuel) Columns - Miscellaneous Ramblings (The Monterey Historic Automobile Races: only 20 years old, but an event with excellent vintage nonetheless); Side Glances (As long as Paul Tracy and Bobby Rahal can keep winning races, eyeglass wearers can hold their heads up high); About The Sport (A quick history of Indy Lights, the AAA league for future IndyCar drivers, and a quick lap in the hardware); Inside Formula 1 (Team Ferrari keeps trying to break its losing streak as Michael Andretti finally loses his breaking streak); Inside IndyCar (Does that "T" stand for "Tenacity"? You bet it does - Willy T. Ribbs rebuilds a name for himself in IndyCar racing) Departments - People & Places; Letters To The Editor; Years Ago; Ampersand; Reviews; Tech Tidbits; Road Test Summary; Technical Correspondence; Time & Place; Showcase; Market Place; PS
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November Features - Ford Mustang Styling Analysis (Jonathon Thompson and Dennis Brown combine forces in a critical dissection of the new Mustang); Salon: 1953 Porsche Spyder 550-04 (May, 1953: An inspired car with great lineage ushers in an era when Porsche really goes racing); Happy Birthday, 901 (How did my baby grow up so fast? Senior Editor Joe Rusz's photolog of the Porsche 911's 30th birthday party in Germany); Long-Term Tests: Cadillac Seville Touring Sedan And Ford Probe GT (Taking stock of the Americans in our long-term test fleet) Road Tests - 1994 Acura Integra GS-R (Scratching the surface of the hot-hearted Integra, we discover the high tech under the controversial skin); 1994 Chrysler LHS (The upscale version of Chrysler's new LH-platformed New Yorker arrives long on leg room, luxury and looks); BMW 540I (BMW plays the eights up its sleeve to come up with a winning handful of rejuvenated 5-Series versions, including this sedan); Volkswagen Golf III GL (After a two-year drum roll that lasted from Wolfsburg to Mexico to here, how loudly will the cymbals (symbols) crash?) First Drives - Dodge/Plymouth Neon (Chrysler's answer to the call for compacts); Volvo 850 Turbo (Another new Volvo to set your Uncle Olaf reeling); 1994 Saab 900 (Deserving of a spot high on anybody's whoosh list); 1995 Volkswagen Passat GLX and Golf Cabrio (Fresh airings); 1994 Infiniti Q45 (with a gentler attitude and a grinning new grille); Rolls-Royce and Bentley for 1994 (Here's what's new from Crewe); 1994 Ford Mustang (On the trail with America's number one ponycar); Chevrolet Camaro Convertible (In top form with the top down) Columns - Miscellaneous Ramblings (Stirling Moss and a sterling time at Meadow Brook remind our Editor that he has the "best job in the world"); Side Glances (Somewhere along the line, cruising down the Boulevard has been replaced by a quick trip to traffic court); About The Sport (Sending a message to IMSA: Ask not for whom the checkered flag drops, it may be dropping for thee (and for thy future)); Inside Formula 1 (Damon "Hard Luck" Hill leads the pack in Hockenheim but can't make it to Victory Circle...until Hungary); Inside IndyCar (If Nigel Mansell keeps winning on oval circuits, the Queen may be inspired to bestow the title of Sir Cirference upon him) Departments - People & Places; Letters To The Editor; Years Ago; Amperisand; Tech Tidbits; Technical Correspondence; Road Test Summary; Time & Place; Showcase; Market Place; PS
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December Features - Calendar Cars (After 10 years as the mastermind behind the Road & Track Exotic Car Calendar camera, Jeff Zwart gets to tell his side of the story); 20th Annual Monterey Historic Automobile Races (John Lamm shares the photographic spotlight with historic shots of historic racers); Elegance Is Expected (Sergio Pininfarina, Ralph Lauren and R&T trophy winner Tom Stegman star at the 43rd Pebble Beach Concours d'Elegance) Road Tests - 1994 Mercedes-Benz C280 (Sometimes small is beautiful, but on the first rung of M-B's ladder, the bigger Baby Benz is definitely better); 1994 Toyota Celica GT Coupe (A maajor facelift, a new interior and improved fuel economy usher the Celica into the gentry class of sports coupes); Alfa Romeo 164 Quadrifoglio (Alfa Romeo may not have invented the sports sedan, but it sure did push the idea, and here's a piece of the legacy) First Drives - 1994 Ford Thunderbird (The Bird gets a new beak and tail, a refeathered nest (new interior) and the modular V-8's wind beneath its wings); 1995 Mazda Millenia (For those of you who laughed when Mazda began singing the praises of the rotary engine: now comes Miller time); Not Quite Cars: Land Rover Defender and 1994 Dodge Ram Trucks (A new R&T feature devoted to trucks, vans and sport utilities) Technical - Technology Update: A Tire For All Seasons (Pirelli introduces the P4000 SuperTouring, a tire of all-season tread, compound and safety) Columns - Miscellaneous Ramblings (The ways we mark time, both fluid - the R&T Index and Calendar - and frozen - Ed "Big Daddy" Roth's Rat Fink); Side Glances (Love's Labour Sold: If you think breaking up is hard to do, try putting a price tag on all those hours you put into the relationship); About The Sport (If there wasn't a sports-racing class, series or event to fit your taste, your car or your budget, you can't blame the SCCA and IMSA); Inside Formula 1 (Monza: Michael Andretti gets his first podium finish and his final paycheck as a Grand Prix driver as Damon Hill pulls a hat trick); Inside IndyCar (No sooner does Nigel Mansell abdicate the Formula 1 throne than he is crowned reigning monarch of the IndyCar kingdom) Departments - People & Places; Letters To The Editor; Years Ago; Ampersand; Tech Tidbits; Time & Place; Road Test Summary; Technical Correspondence; Showcase; Market Place; PS
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