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Contents: Just as this year Ferrari celebrates its 45th anniversary as a carmaker, this month Road & Track is observing its own 45th birthday. Fittingly, we have a stable full of prancing horses – TRs specifically – with a road test of the new 512TR and Phil Hill’s vivid memories of racing the original Tesla Rossas of the Fifties and Sixties) 45th Anniversary – Looking Backward (Pull up a hot toddy, an easy chair and sense of humor, we’ve been mining nuggets from 45 years of back issues); The Art Of Road & Track (Design Director Wm A. Motta curates this retrospective tour through the R&T museum of fine automotive art) Features – 1993 Dodge Intrepid (Chrysler pins its hopes for the Nineties on a car called Intrepid, and the LH platform the Intrepid rides on); Long-Term Wrap up: Mitsubishi 3000GT VR-4 (A sad ending to our test: two cars, a collision and a toppled lamppost); Magnificent Obsession (On the 20th anniversary of Mark Donohue’s win at Indy, Sam Posey offers this bittersweet remembrance) Road Tests – Ferrari 512 Testarossa (You can’t judge a book by its slightly redone cover, Mareanello’s 512TR is full of new fire and finesse); Cadillac STS Takes On The Best (GM’s new Seville Touring Sedan meets the Mercedes 300E, BMW 535i, Lexus LS 400 and Infiniti Q45) First Drives – Isuzu Trooper (The box on wheels that we’ve always liked has evolved into a well-rounded sport-utility vehicle that we can respect); 1993 Ford Probe (The second-generation Probe shakes off the boy racers with sporty refinement worthy of the gentleman driver) Technical – Technology Update: Winter Wonder (Here’s the thing about traction control: if you don’t have traction, you may be out of control) Columns – Miscellaneous Ramblings (45 years of Road & Track is a benchmark for older staffers to celebrate and younger ones to target); Side Glances (Peter Egan relives some really dumb automotive designs, or here’s what you can do with your mouse belts, pal); About The Sport (Faced with disarray and uncertainty, a number of European Group C race teams appear ready to immigrate to America) Departments – People & Places; Letters To The Editor; Years Ago; Time & Place; Road Test Summary; Ampersand; Reviews; Technical Correspondence; Showcase; Market Place; PS
Issue: June 1992
Condition: Very Good