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Contents: Road Tests – Preview Test: Toyota MR2 (Get yours while they’re still hard to get); Engines R Us (Good news from Toyota’s dyno room); Chevrolet Spectrum (Baseball, hot dogs, apple pie and now sushi); BMW 635CSi (Use it as a fast car is used in Europe: as a small plane); Preview Test: Astro vs. Aerostar (Chevy and Ford fill out the small-van spectrum); Long-Term Test: Mitsubishi Turbo Diesel Pickup (a fond farewell (sob!) to the C/D family truck) Features – Porsche Potency (Belts! Chains! Four cams! 32 valves! 288 hp!); Gran Turismo Communisto (If Karl Marx were alive today, he’d be driving a Lamborghini Countach) Short Takes – DeAtley DMS 4-7 (Like driving your vault); Twin-Turbo Ferrari 308 (An ersatz GTO); Escort Impala 9CI (All company cars are not created equal); Alfa Romeo 33 1.5 4×4 (An Old World maker joins the newest automotive trend) Columns – Driver’s Seat (CBS, the UAW, and the Boss’s Wogon); Letters (Starring Jack D. Ripper, Eleanor Roosevelt, et al); Sherman (Fantasy fulfillment at forty thousand feet); Yates (Don Aronow and the last playground); Bedard (Donuts, anyone?) For Your Information (New & Improved (450-bhp 4wd Porsche 959, front-drive Starlet, three new Mazdas, Giugiaro’s Lotus Erna); Lancia Thema (The southern end of the deal); Cheap Jeeps (Forget this fantasy); 60th Turin Auto Show (Flocking to Mecca) Sport – Hammer, Hammer (No part throttle: Track-testing the best deal in motorsports); Put Your Foot Down And Think Of England! (The land of speed record and noble Richard Noble)
Issue: February 1985
Condition: Very Good