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Contents: Affordable Exotics (Buying your way into the super-car class for less than $20,000) Road Tests – BMW 535i & 524td (Two distinct choices in the 5-series: the full-up sports sedan and a surprising diesel); Chevrolet Novi CL (Forget the mid-size old one, this is the joint Chevy/Toyota economy version); Volkswagen Cabriolet Update (The Wolfsburg Edition comes complete with everything for fun in the sun) Features – New For 1986 (Driving impressions of the new fun cars from Chrysler, Ford and AMC/Jeep/Renault); Volkswagen Scirocco 16-valve (Performance to match the image of this German sports coupe); Highland History, Hideaways & Hideouts (Innes Ireland takes you along for a personal tour of Scotland); Quick Study (TV star Perry King tastes the thrill of the chase in Toyota’s Long Beach GP Celebrity Race); Salon: 1938/46 Delahaye Type 145 (A V-12 masterpiece that was built to win a million); Celica To The Fore (Toyota’s all-new Celica gets front-wheel drive, a 16-valve engine and a fresh skin); Long-Term Update (The continuing chronicle of our Honda, Pontiac, Nissan and Mitsubishi) Technical – Gleason Torsen Differential (A different approach to the benefits of limited slip) Competition – 24 Hours Of Le Mans (When the (micro) chips are down, Porsche still wins the pot); Canadian Grand Prix (Ferrari gives ’em the old 1-2 knockout punch); Detroit Grand Prix (Keke Rosberg demonstrates how to motor through Motown); French Grand Prix (Remember Nelson Piquet? Everyone in France does) Columns – Side Glances (Beyond the men and machinery, there’s a special magic to Formula 1); Going West (Ted West ponders the identity crisis of the motoring journalist); Miscellaneous Ramblings (The Koreans are coming, so you’d better know your Hyundai from your Daewoo); Technical Tidbits (Economic modeling may show you value, but at a price); Letter From Europe (16-valve engines for VW’s Golf and Scirocco, plus a turbo for Renault’s 9); Letter From Japan (Nissan’s Cedric is short on looks and long on innovative technology); Letter From Detroit (AMC, Chrysler and Ford face 1986 with fine-tuned optimism); About The Sport (Go tell it on the mountain that Audi now owns Pikes Peak) Departments – People & Places; Letters; Road Test Summary; Years Ago; Time & Place; Market Place; Technical Correspondence; PS
Issue: October 1985
Condition: Very Good