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Contents: Top-down touring – a heady combination of wind, sun and motor – is the touchstone on which a great deal of sports car enthusiasm is based. In recent days that passion has come back to life, reinvigorated by a herd of new roadsters, present and future, from around the world. Features – Salon: 1963 Jaguar Lightweight E-Type Fixed Head Coupe (an E-type for effort at Le Mans with an A+ in styling), A Meeting Of The Mammoths (D-day at Tiffany’s: The AM General HUMMER and Lamborghini LM/American on active duty in the U.S.), Owner Survey: Mercedes-Benz 190 class, 1984-1988 (the Baby Benz undergoes the scrutiny of our survey microscope), Long-Term Introduction: Mercedes-Benz 400E (an overture of welcome to a car that mixes operatic luxury with a jazzy V-8), Nigel Shiftright: Automotive Anachronism (Frank & Troise’s cartoon hero plays Machiavelli to the “Prince of Darkness”) Road Tests – Mazda MX-6 LS (Mazda moves in, boasting traits all to rare in the mid-priced sports-coupe arena: super refinement and a V-6 engine), Audi S4 (from 5000, to 200, to S4: As the name of Audi’s flagship gets shorter, it’s long suits – comfort, cool, composure – get longer) First Drives – Volkswagen Corrado SLC (out with the supercharger, in with a very sweet six; VW’s narrow angle V-6 makes it’s U.S. premier), BMW 740L (Munich delivers new levels of smoothness to the Strasse with a potent V-8 and velvety 5-speed automatic transmission), Nissan Quest (more than simply a box on wheels, Nissan’s newest people-hauler, the Quest minivan, thinks it’s a car), Porsche 928 GTS (Porsche turns up the heat on its Gran Turismo, already a specialist at burning up long stretches of highway), Jaguar XJR-S (Tom Walkinshaw Racing breathes on Jaguar’s V-12 coupe and sends it back into the jungle to hunt for fresh game) Technical – Liquid Spring C.L.A.S.S. (Dennis Simanatis learns volumes about adaptive suspension and compresses the information for Competition – F1 Fury (Tiff Needell gets to play Bulldog-for-a-day, piloting Nigel Mansell’s Williams FW14B Grand Prix racecar at Eastoni) Columns – Miscellaneous Ramblings (in praise of that all-American tribute to freedom, vacations and summertime adventure: the Road Trip), Side Glances (things you almost never see, like clever uses for Garfield dolls and attractive windshield-wiper aero kits), About The Sport (after considerable success in IMSA and SCCA series, the Archer brothers add Trans-Am racing to their quivers), Inside IndyCar (Fittipaldi seizes the reins; Sullivan rains on Unser Jr’s parade in Long Beach as Pruett bounces back again), Inside Formula 1 (Nigel Mansell displays guarded reactions toward reactive suspension; Ron Dennis vents about ugly Americans) Departments – People & Places, Letters to the Editor, Years Ago, Ampersand, Reviews, Time & Place, Road Test Summery, Tech Tidbits, Technical Correspondence, Showcase, Market Place, PS
Issue: July 1992
Condition: Very Good