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| October 1986 |
Road Tests - Mustang GT vs. Camaro IROC-A (After 20 years, the great ponycar battle rages hotter than ever), Comparison Test: 12 Economy Cars (Good things come in small boxes, so do things that are just barly OK), Callaway Twin-Turbo Corvette (Would you believe 178 mph> How about 178 mph with a GM factory warranty?) Features - Porsche's 16-Valve 944S (Breathes deeply, turns heads, doesn't cough), Long-Term Update (Corvette MR2 and Saab 9000; a tale of clutch chatter, good times and the criminal class), Salon: 1937 Bugatti Type 57SC Cabriolet (A dazzlilng, nearly forgotten masterpiece comes down from the attic), A Lot Of Cars (What Lotus giveth, Toyota taketh partly away, while ipd adds power and glory to the Volvo 740 and increaseth its cost), Ford For 1987 (Dearborn leaves well enough alone and makes good even better) Competition - Indy 1986 (Rahal saves his fastest lap for last in the better late-than-wetter 500), Canadian Grand Prix (Nigel delivers again on the Ile Notre Dame), Detroit Grand Prix (Renaissance Senna! Ayrion swoops from faraway 8th to a winner's circle), French Grand Prix (Mansell makes it three, as others fiddle while foam burns) Columns - Side Glances (A prehistoric controversy from the days when MGs and Triumphs roamed the earth), Miscellaneous Ramblilngs (Stealilng your own car isn't as easy as it used to be), About The Sport (On the joys of going for - and becoming - broke at Nelson Ledge), Letter From Japan (10 more valves and one more cylinder for the Chevy Sprint), Letter From Detroit (GM and Lotus activate Corvette suspension; potholes flee in terror), Technical Tidbits (Weighing numbers on a human scale) Departments - People & Places, Letters To The Editor, Years Ago, Road Test Summary, Time & Place, Reviews, Market Place, Technical Correspondence, PS |
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| December 1986 |
Cover Story - Kodiak (Wow! Chevrolet power, German mechanicals, gullwing doors and the best of everything) Road Tests - Valves vs Vanes - Lots of Them (How to power a sports coupe? Let me count the ways: 16 valves or one turbo), BMW 325es (try three quick laps with this one; the best baby boomer biller), Renault Alliance GTA (how do you say "ragtop" in French? How do you say "zut alors" in Kenoshan?) Features - Salon: 1886 Benz (our Mr. Hill samples steel, three wheels and a seat in place of sinew, four hoofs and a saddle), The Small Success (Benz bult some, Hidgon built a few and the rest is history), Toyota Roundup '87 (a redesigned Camry, a turbocharged Supra and 4-valve heads all around(, The Road To Everest: Part II (are four doors and three main bearings man enough to conquer the world's highest peak?), Index 1986 (from A-ALfa to V-Voltage with lots in between) Competition - Hungarian Grand Prix (Marx meets Ecclestone; and neither blinks), Austrian Grand Prix (Prost coasts home the winner, though Berger cheers the hometown crowd) Technical - Rustproofing: How To Cope (or do you want your car to rust in piece(s)) Columns - Side Glances (on cheap cigars, clocks that never worked and the radio as a friend), Going West (marketers of America, you have nothing to lose but your claims), Miscellaneous Ramblings (as reliable as houses, and even worse puns), Letter From Japan (wait! I'm confused; Is this your Mazda or my Granada?), Letter From Detroit (will the General induct European troops), Letter From Europe (Paul Frere may have discovered his favorite BMW), About The Sport (sing a song of Saab's single-seater series), Ampersand (on a controversial master of industrial design), Technical Tidbits (ephemera, trivia and some other stuff that may even matter) Departments - People & Places, Letters to the Editor, Years Ago, Time & Place, Reviews, Market Place, Technical Correspondence, PS |
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| July 1992 |
Cover Story - Top-down touring - a heady combination of wind, sun and motor - is the touchstone on which a great deal of sports car enthusiasm is based. In recent days that passion has come back to life, reinvigorated by a herd of new roadsters, present and future, from around the world. Features - Salon: 1983 Jaguar Lightweight E-Type Fixed Head Coupe (an E-type for effort at Le Mans with an A+ in styling), A Meeting Of The Mammoths (D-day at Tiffany's: The AM General HUMMER and Lamborghini LM/American on active duty in the U.S.), Owner Survey: Mercedes-Benz 190 class, 1984-1988 (the Baby Benz undergoes the scrutiny of our survey microscope), Long-Term Introduction: Mercedes-Benz 400E (an overture of welcome to a car that mixes operatic luxury with a jazzy V-8), Nigel Shiftright: Automotive Anachronism (Frank & Troise's cartoon hero plays Machiavelli to the "Prince of Darkness") Road Tests - Mazda MX-6 LS (Mazda moves in, boasting traits all to rare in the mid-priced sports-coupe arena: super refinement and a V-6 engine), Audi S4 (from 5000, to 200, to S4: As the name of Audi's flagship gets shorter, it's long suits - comfort, cool, composure - get longer) First Drives - Volkswagen Corrado SLC (out with the supercharger, in with a very sweet six; VW's narrow angle V-6 makes it's U.S. premier), BMW 740L (Munich delivers new levels of smoothness to the Strasse with a potent V-8 and velvety 5-speed automatic transmission), Nissan Quest (more than simply a box on wheels, Nissan's newest people-hauler, the Quest minivan, thinks it's a car), Porsche 928 GTS (Porsche turns up the heat on its Gran Turismo, already a specialist at burning up long stretches of highway), Jaguar XJR-S (Tom Walkinshaw Racing breathes on Jaguar's V-12 coupe and sends it back into the jungle to hunt for fresh game) Technical - LiquidSpring C.L.A.S.S. (Dennis Simanatis learns volumes about adaptive suspension and compresses the information for Competition - F1 Fury (Tiff Needell gets to play Bulldog-for-a-day, piloting Nigel Mansell's Williams FW14B Grand Prix racecar at Eastoni) Columns - Miscellaneous Ramblilngs (in praise of that all-American tribute to freedom, vacations and summertime adventure: the Road Trip), Side Glances (things you almost never see, like clever uses for Garfield dolls and attractive windshield-wiper aero kits), About The Sport (after considerable success in IMSA and SCCA series, the Archer brothers add Trans-Am racing to their quivers), Inside IndyCar (Fittipaldi seizes the reins; Sullivan rains on Unser Jr's parade in Long Beach as Pruett bounces back again), Inside Formula 1 (Nigel Mansell displays guarded reactions toward reactive suspension; Ron Dennis vents about ugly Americans) Departments - People & Places, Letters to the Editor, Years Ago, Ampersand, Reviews, Time & Place, Road Test Summery, Tech Tidbits, Technical Correspondence, Showcase, Market Place, PS |
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| June 1994 |
Road Tests - Saleen Mustang S-351 (Steve Saleen has saddled Ford's new pony with bags of handling and horsepower. Wanna rumble>), Ford Mustang Cobra Convertible versus Pontiac Firebird Formula Convertible (an open-air pair of pumped up ponycars), 1995 Mitsubishi Eclipse GSX ("X" marks the spotlight generation for the second iteration of Mitsubishi's all-wheel-drive sports coupe), 1995 Nissan Maxima SE (no more '4-door sports car"? Our little secret; the new softer, quieter Maxima is also quicker and more nimble) Features - Pizazz At Palexpo (Our photo essay of the 64th Geneva automobile show. We can only hope that we look this good when we turn 64), Saleen Mustang R-R-R (a 576 bhp Ford Mustang for the street? What are you - some kind of comedian? Steve Saleen meets Tim Allen), 4WD Bushwackers (soin' the dunes in a Land Rover Defender 90, an AM General HUMMER, a Toyota Land Cruiser and a Jeep Wrangler), Salon: World War II Jeep MB (a fond salute to the WWII conveyance that, on June 6, 1944, became the most popular vehicle in all of France), LOong-Term Introduction: Honda Civic del Sol VTEC (when Honda added the VTEC cocoa butter, we decided to spend a year in the sun), Long-Term Wrapup: Dodge Intrepid ES (R&T's workhorse with wanderlust - 40,000 miles on the clock - is finally put out to pasture), Centre International de I'Automobile Museum (it owns no cars, but it regularly attracts a crowd of cars that attracts a crowd of car lovers) First Drives - Opel Omega (the Cadillac of Opels (or is it the Opel of Cadillacs?) makes its European debut and is decclared fit for a wreath and crest), Saab 900S & 900SE (the second generation of the bread and butter Saab is now bred and buttered in 3-door and turbo-versions), Mitsubishi 3000GT Spyder VR-4 (sell the kids (it's adult fun), sell the house (it's pricey), and sell tickets to the retractable-hardtop show), Not Quite Cars: Land Rover Discovery & Toyota Mega Cruiser (two new ways to enjoy the great outdoors (or secure the DMZ perimeter) Technical - Technology Update: Gasoline, Octane and All (these fuelish things, distilling truths, detonating myths and just knocking around) Columns - Miscellaneous Ramblings (race courses, golf courses and a six-course meal. Our Editor shares conversation and cuisine with Migel Mansell), Side Glances (Peter Egan welcomes car awareness into acceptance as cultural literacy and automotive books into the literature of culture), About The Sport (you can race big and expensive (the Ferrari 348 Challenge) or small and affordable (Competition Package Neons), Inside Formula I (Round One. The Brazilian GP is a somber moment for Ayrton Senna and a samba occasion for Michael Cchumacher), Inside Indy Car (a checkered flag in Australia welcomes Michael Andretti back to Indy Car in a stormy opener to the 1994 season) Departments - People & Places, Letters to the Editor, Years Ago, Ampersand, Technical Correspondence, Tech Tidbits, Time & Place, Road Test Summary, Reviews, Showcase, Market Place, PS |
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