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Contents: Traditionally, fall is new-car time in America. In accordance with that sentiment, R&T‘s editors have once again rounded up and corralled all the new models – imported and domestic – for your inspection. From the all-new to the unchanged, NEW FOR ’93 serves as a combination buyer’s guide/spotter’s guide for the entire lineup of this season’s cars. Features – The Masters (Nuvolari, Fangio, Moss, Clark and Senna: Rob Walker offers a personal appreciation of five great race-car drivers); Long-Term Introduction: Subaru SVX (If you can’t say something nice about a car, you won’t be talking about the SVX) Road Tests – Nissan Altima SE (Nissan hopes to replace the question mark hanging around its midsize sedan with an exclamation point); Volvo 850 GLT (Here it is at last: the Volvo for people who think of themselves as either too young or too old to own a Volvo); AC Propulsion CRX (A test of batteries subjected to a battery of tests: the historic first road test of an electric car) First Drives – Saturn Wagon (Saturn brings the image of a roomy, comfy hard-working, sensibly priced American station wagon back to earth); Ford Mustang Cobra (A venomous V-8 and ponycar platform provide evidence that snakes and horses can really get along) Columns – Miscellaneous Ramblings (New car fever: When in Rome, do as the Romans do, and when in Buenos Aires, drive like Fangio); Side Glances (In search of Road America: Peter Egan visits the June Sprints of Elkhart Lake and goes hungry for V-8 thunder); About The Sport (Even dwarf cars started small: Mini-sprint car racing supplies Paul Bunyan-size fun on a Billy Barty budget); Inside IndyCar (Slow and steady survives the race: USAC and Indy officials try to put the brakes on flat-out speeds at the 500); Inside Formula 1 (Canadian GP notes: What Montreal doesn’t have, a race fan doesn’t need (as Gerhard Berger would agree) Departments – People & Places; Letters To The Editor; Years Ago; Ampersand; Tech Tidbits; Technical Correspondence; Road Test Summary; Time & Place; Showcase; Market Place; PS
Issue: October 1992
Condition: Very Good