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Contents: Calendar Cars (After 10 years as the mastermind behind the Road & Track Exotic Car Calendar camera, Jeff Zwart gets to tell his side of the story); 20th Annual Monterey Historic Automobile Races (John Lamm shares the photographic spotlight with historic shots of historic racers); Elegance Is Expected (Sergio Pininfarina, Ralph Lauren and R&T trophy winner Tom Stegman star at the 43rd Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance) Road Tests – 1994 Mercedes-Benz C280 (Sometimes small is beautiful, but on the first rung of M-B’s ladder, the bigger Baby Benz is definitely better); 1994 Toyota Celica GT Coupe (A major facelift, a new interior and improved fuel economy usher the Celica into the gentry class of sports coupes); Alfa Romeo 164 Quadrifoglio (Alfa Romeo may not have invented the sports sedan, but it sure did push the idea, and here’s a piece of the legacy) First Drives – 1994 Ford Thunderbird (The Bird gets a new beak and tail, a refeathered nest (new interior) and the modular V-8’s wind beneath its wings); 1995 Mazda Millenia (For those of you who laughed when Mazda began singing the praises of the rotary engine: now comes Miller time); Not Quite Cars: Land Rover Defender and 1994 Dodge Ram Trucks (A new R&T feature devoted to trucks, vans and sport utilities) Technical – Technology Update: A Tire For All Seasons (Pirelli introduces the P4000 Super Touring, a tire of all-season tread, compound and safety) Columns – Miscellaneous Ramblings (The ways we mark time, both fluid – the R&T Index and Calendar – and frozen – Ed “Big Daddy” Roth’s Rat Fink); Side Glances (Love’s Labour Sold: If you think breaking up is hard to do, try putting a price tag on all those hours you put into the relationship); About The Sport (If there wasn’t a sports-racing class, series or event to fit your taste, your car or your budget, you can’t blame the SCCA and IMSA); Inside Formula 1 (Monza: Michael Andretti gets his first podium finish and his final paycheck as a Grand Prix driver as Damon Hill pulls a hat trick); Inside IndyCar (No sooner does Nigel Mansell abdicate the Formula 1 throne than he is crowned reigning monarch of the IndyCar kingdom) Departments – People & Places; Letters To The Editor; Years Ago; Ampersand; Tech Tidbits; Time & Place; Road Test Summary; Technical Correspondence; Showcase; Market Place; PS
Issue: December 1993
Condition: Very Good