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Contents: 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 barley 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 dazzling, nearly forgotten masterpiece comes down from the attic), A Lot Of Cars (What Lotus giveth, Toyota taketh partly away, while it adds power and glory to the Volvo 740 and increases 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 Ramblings (Stealing 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
Issue: October 1986
Condition: Very Good