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Contents: It has bells. It has whistles. It has a supercharged V-6 engine and a $30,000 price tag. But does the Bonneville SSEi have what it takes to be the image leader for Pontiac? With plenty of driving time in the SSEi under his belt and a full set of test numbers on the car, Detroit Editor Ken Zino answers that question) Features – Salon: 1954 Moretti 750 Gran Sport Berlinetta (Small is beautiful, and when it comes from mid-Fifties’ Italy, small is quick); Ferrari 365P (A star at the Paris show in 1966, this cavallino rampante had Pinifarina coachwork, V-12 power and three-across seating); Long-Term Introduction: Pontiac Grand Prix GTP Coupe (Out with the turbo, in with the camshafts, and another long-term test begins) Road Tests – Honda Prelude SI-4WS (This fourth-generation sports coupe moves beyond the company’s styling umbrella while showcasing its engines); Mazda MX-3 GS (Mazda’s sporty new front-drive GT has a light V-6 engine, good looks and may even be a little too smooth for its own good); Volvo 960 (An all-new inline 6-cylinder engine goes a long way toward refining Volvo’s flagship line – all the way across the country, in fact) Driving Impressions – Porsche 968 (Is this new 236-bhp 4-cylinder Porsche just a redone 944, or is it really the poor-man’s 928 (for the poor man with $40,000)); New For ’92 (The latest innovations and iterations of the Chevrolet Corvette LT 1, Toyota Camray, Dodge Daytona IROC and Jaguar XJ-S) <b?>u>Technical – Technology Update: Radar Revisited (Boy, you think you have toys – wait till you see what toys the local law gets to play with) Competition – Gone South (Speed checkered by NASCAR: Peter Egan visits Charlotte for the Coca-Cola 600 and the living history of stock car racing); British Grand Prix (Nigel Mansell puts on a show at Silverstone for his home-country crowd, driving so well that even SenNa hitches a ride); German Grand Prix (Mansell completes a hat-trick and Patrese supplies the icing as the Williams-Renault pull off the 1-2 exacta) Columns – Side Glances (Like the 100th monkey or the ninth Politburo member, is seven the magic number of pre-race vexations?); Miscellaneous Ramblings (Our Editor and his wife (sans surfboards) have become proud owners of a Ford Woodie wagon); About The Sport (What’s old is new again: The SCCA revitalizes the Trans-Am while Dennis Simanaitis relishes Morgans at Mid-Ohio) Departments – People & Places; Letters To The Editor; Years Ago; Road Test Summary; Time & Place; Ampersand; Market Place; Reviews; Technical Correspondence; PS
Issue: November 1991
Condition: Very Good