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Contents: Comparison Test – The Best Handling American Car Is…(Six C/D staffers (with a little help from two angels) in quest of “The Answer”) Road Tests – Mercedes-Benz 500SEC (In search of superlatives); Buick Electra T Type (Audi, watch out); Nissan 200SX Turbo (An old image boosted to a new and higher level of execution); Isuzu Trooper II (One cute one); Peugeot 505S Wagon (A Gallic wagon with the charm of Maurice Chevalier and the strength of the Anheuser-Busch Clydesdales) Features – Preview: Volkswagen Jetta (A Golf with more room for your golf bags); Smokey Yunick R & D (We came, we saw, we…well, you hadda be there); The Hot-Vapor Engine (Or is it just hot air?) Short Takes – Mercury Cougar XR-7 (Beauty’s only skin deep; the turbo engine is underneath); Audi 5000S Wagon (Good thinking) Columns – Drivers Seat (54,000 post cards – baled, stacked, laid out end to end – should reach from here to the White House); Letters (Anemic autosis, Italo Calvino, and the proverbial big one); Baxter (Noble Dog Wolf); Bedard (If we really were to save lives, let’s make dying against the law) For Your Information – New & Improved (The Audi-Porsche breakup, sixteen-valve Saab, Renault A310 Alpine for the U.S., American-built Civics, Borgward lives); Preview ’85 (New-model news from the C/D mole patrol); Fiat Uno 45ES (Taking the sting out of stingy); Seeing Red (NHTSA decrees the center-mounted taillamp); Roadsound (Cellular communications, automotively speaking) Sport – Steel In The Soul (To few men come hearts to conquer great challenges); Flow States (You’ve got to be in two worlds at once – but can you get there from here!); Race Test Preview
Issue: May 1984
Condition: Very Good