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Contents: Road Tests – Cover Story: The Blow Drivers (Audi TT Quattro, BMW Z4 3.0, Honda S2000, Nissan 350Z Touring, Porsche Boxster); Porsche Cayenne Turbo (We weigh the Porsche against other SUV’s and give ourselves a hernia); Volvo S60R AWD (From the land of ABBA comes some heavy metal); Jaguar XJR (A cat among a bunch of pigeons); Maybach 57 (My kingdom for a horse! If King Richard were alive, that’s about what he’d pay for this baby); Preview: Hyundai XG350 (Mini Maybach outside, Cressida inside); Preview: BMW 5 Series (New baby, new bath water); Audi A8L 4.2 Quattro (For folks feeling a little aluminum); Subaru Forester 2.5XT (With a turbocharged engine, this is the SUV version of the WRV STi. Almost); Short Take: Ford Thunderbird (A little more thunder, a little too late); Preview: Ford F-150 (Ford spends big to stay on top); Short Take: Infiniti FX35 (Whatever it’s called, it’s pretty good) Features – Ten Japanese Cars You Can’t Have (Plus a couple you don’t want); London On $8 A Day (The new mayor pulls off a threat to charge residents $8 to drive into the heart of town); Speciality File: Lingenfelter 427 Twin-Turbo Escalade EXT (Giving new meaning to the word excess); Long-Term Test: Is the world really a better place without the nudging sensation of shifting gears?); Sport: 2003 One Lap Of America (Just say N2O! Faster driving through chemistry) Columns – The Steering Column (Picks and pans from recent vehicles); Backfires (Dating Miss America, 50 to 0 in 5 minutes); Brock Yates (First the party, then the hangover); Patrick Bedard (Gas: Who has the time to waste nine billion gallons?); John Phillips (Small things we can do to enliven car racing); Upfront (Spy report, not-this-summer Solstice); Road Test Digest; Last Page (Donate your car
Issue: August 2003
Condition: Very Good