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Contents: Special Section – Winners And Losers 1974 (What better way is there to commemorate the year when we never needed winners more?) Road Tests – Capri II (Making a good super coupe even better); Plymouth Road Runner (A former wild stallion joins the herd); Mercedes 300D (The world’s fastest Diesel and slowest $12,000 car) Outrage – C/D‘s Showroom Stock Sedan Challenge III (Bedard makes it two in a row while the readers eat crow, but it wasn’t as easy as it looked) Nostalgia – Pontiac GTO: The Original Muscle Phenomenon (It was like losing your virginity, going into combat and tasting your first beer all at once); The Making Of Car And Driver (A “sporty car” magazine drives out of oblivion…in a Pontiac GTO) Preview Test – Audi 50 (More economical than a Beetle and more fun than a Mini) Competition – Independent Thinking (That’s what it took to build a 6-wheel car and run it in the 1948 Indy 500); The Beauty And The Beast (Roger Penske’s new Formula One car takes on one of the best USAC sprint cars) Readers’ Choice Poll – Vote For The Best Cars In The World (Your chance to tell us what you think) Sport – Formula One (The championship decision); NASCAR (Grand National Bash); Off-Road (Bite-size Baja) Columns – Jean Shepherd (The latest status symbol: a faded price sticker); Warren Weith (Pass your driver’s test, then learn how to drive); Patrick Bedard (An unlikeable win in an even more unlikeable car); William Jeanes (History usually reads a lot better than it played) Departments – Inside Car And Driver; Editorial; Letters; Classified Advertising; Advertisers’ Index; For Your Information
Issue: January 1975
Condition: Very Good