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Contents: Lotus Etna (Exciting styling and exhilarating performances blended in a new mid-engine V-8 GT car) Road Tests – Volkswagen Golf (It’s not a game, it’s a whole new driving feel); Peugeot 505 Turbo (Taking on the heavyweights from Saab, Volvo and Audi); Saab Turbo (The first of the turbo sedans becomes the first with a 16-valve head) Features – Profile: Nick Craw (From the Peace Corps to the SCCA, Craw has raced to win); Paris Auto Show (A limitless feast of almost everything automotive); Bitter Sweets (A 4-foor version of the SC and a targa-top Rallye are in the works); The Honeymoon Special (A Cleveland coupe for early automotive campers); Solo (As in going it alone to produce the latest Panther mid-engined GT car); The KdF People’s Car (Hitler’s plans for putting the German’s on wheels); Hondas To Go (Jackson Performance has a long menu of performance desserts); Getting Out There (A story of one man’s need to unload his meager life savings by going racing); Spex Honda Elf (Nifty little spyder conversion for the Civic-minded); Only In Italy, The Sequel (Phil Hill and the re-creation of the Mille Miglia); Salon: 1956 Auston-Healey 100/4 (A car made for driving, then and now); One Ford, Coming Up (Delivering cars in Nepal was a lesson in ingenuity) Technical – Vortex Generators (A new wrinkle in the technology of beating the wind) Competition – Italian Grand Prix (An excellent race on the historic Monza course); Dutch Grand Prix (Prost proves perfectly capable on the sands of Zandvoort) Columns – Side Glances (“It’s clear that I am a mere user of 20th century technology”); Miscellaneous Ramblings (At the wheel of an anti-skid braking Corvette); Letter From Europe (Driving the Audi Quatro, Citroen’s turbo CX and Renault’s Super 5); Letter From Japan (Return of the Toyota Starlet, this time with a 3-valve-per-cylinder engine); Letter From Detroit (Chevy’s bid to win the Indy 500 with a Penske/Ilmor-designed racing engine); About The Sport (Solo II Championships provide quick thrills); Ampersand (The 1985 Audis spread their wings); Technical Tidbits (Are you ready for E2F2?) Departments – People & Places; Letters; Road Test Summary; Time & Place; Years Ago; Reviews; Market Place; Technical Correspondence; PS
Issue: January 1985
Condition: Very Good