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Contents: Road Tests – Ford LTD vs. Chevrolet Caprice (Comparing full-size 2-door luxury coupes), The Sunchaser (Take one Toyota, add a targa/cabriolet treatment, and return to the days of your youth), 25th Anniversary Thunderbird (The Silver Celebration of a famous marque), Cross-Country in the Audi 5000S Diesel (Or, how we traveled 3400 miles on less than $108 worth of No. 2), BMW 320i Turbo (Aftermarket force-feeding invites some serious Porsche-hunting), Electric Test Vehicle (ETV-1) (This $9 million experimental car could be a forerunner of what you may someday find in your garage) Car Of The Year – The Nominees (Here they are: Buick Skylark, Chevrolet Citation, Dodge Mirada, Ford Thunderbird, Lincoln Mark VI, Oldsmobile Omega, Pontiac Phoenix), The Testing (After the flogging, it became apparent that these were truly cars of the 1980s), The Winner (Chevrolet’s 1980 Citation outscored them all) Features – Living With Front-Drive (Prepare yourself to enjoy this bold new world of driving), Convertible Craze (Fresh-air fun isn’t dead – it’s just a lot more expensive these days), Retrospect: 1956 Alfa Romero 6C 3500CM (A good example of why man has built a love affair around the automobile), Reinventing The Corvair (A little lesson from history) Departments – Editor’s Report, Readers’ Report, Detroit Report, International Report, Competition Report
Issue: February 1980
Condition: Very Good