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Contents: Small Cars, Big Performance (Automotive excitement for less that $10,000 with six 100-mph economy cars); Subaru 4wd Turbo (It’s hard to think of a feature the 4wd, turbocharged Subaru doesn’t have); Hardy & Beck BMW 327S (Imagine 180 bhp in an improved 3-series BMW. Now quit smiling and read the test) Features – Profile: Roy Winkelmann (The invisible man behind the reemergence of Lotus as an American Champ car); Salon: Bugatti Type 10 Petit Pur Sung (Ettore Bugatti’s very first car, built in Cologne, restored in Reno); Ferraris At Monterey (Ferrari heaven, courtesy of the Monterey Historic Automobile Races); Porsche 928S 4-Valve (Breathing even more life into Porsche’s V-8 engine with 32 valves and a magnesium manifold); Update: Long-Term Cars (The state of the union between R&T and our Mitsubishi, Honda, Pontiac and Volkswagen); TAG Porsche Engine (Behind every successful Formula 1 racer this year is a pushy engine) Technical – 50-Series High Performance Tires (Taking seven sets of 225/50VR-16 tires to their limits) Competition – Grand Prix Of Europe (Prost conquers the new Nurburgring, but Niki earns 3 valuable points); Portuguese Grand Prix (Once again, Prost has the win but Lauda has the luck and his third championship) Columns – Side Glances (Sounding off about race car noise limits and campsites that are louder than industrial parks); Miscellaneous Ramblings (What happens to all the toll money? Are the coins melted down and used to fill potholes?); Letter From Europe (When creative European automakers join forces, the result becomes the Lancia Thema and Saab 9000); Letter From Detroit (When is a barn door not a barn door? When Ford introduces the Aerostar compact van); About The Sport (A troubling time at the SCCA National Championships with too many crashes and too many protests); Technical Tidbits (An introduction to calculus leads to the mathematics of car width and slalom speeds) Departments – People & Places; Letters; Years Ago; Time & Place; Road Test Summary; Cars In Scale; Market Place; Technical Correspondence; PS
Issue: February 1985
Condition: Very Good