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Contents: Road Tests – Ferrari 456 GT (A front-engine, rear-drive V-12 2+2 with forza and finesse, sounds like your traditional garden – of Eden – variety Ferrari); 1995 Subaru Legacy L Wagon (A bit like a Japanese Saab, the Legacy L Wagon is an endearing combination of practicality and quirkiness); 1994 Lamborghini Diablo VT (Lamborghini puts the driven wheels exactly where God intended them to be for Supercars: one at each corner) First Drives – Toyota Avalon (With more room than a church parking lot on a Monday morning, it seats six and preys on sedans in the heart of the U.S.A); 1995 Mazda Protege (The Protege us is no longer a protege, but a leader in its class, boasting more room, more refinement and a high fun factor); Pontiac Sunfire GT (GM’s replacement for the Sunbird goes steppin’ out in style, dressed to kill and smoothing out the Quad 4 vibrations); 1995 Honda Accord V-6 Sedan (Honda revives a legend – a Legend engine, actually – and the noble Accord now sits at the V-6 Round Table); 1995 Porsche 911 Carrera 4 (With its all-new Allrad (all-wheel-drive) system, this Porsche is the most sure-footed Stuttgarter of them all); Not Quite Cars: 1995 Ford Explorer (Ford eighty-sixes the I-beams and adds rack-and-pinion steering and dual-airbags to its ace SUV) Features – Around The World In 24 Days (Jeff Zwart’s 1995 World Tour – eat your heart out, Madonna – shooting 13 great calendar cars); Aston-Martin DB7 (A powerful answer to the hypothetical question: what would’ve happened if William Lyons and David Brown had joined forces); An Enthusiast’s English Summer (The Innes Ireland Memorial Rally, the Goodwill Festival of Speed and 1800 miles in a Morgan Plus 4); Long-Term Introduction: Nissan Maxima SE (It’s not a 4-door sports car? We’re taking a year to explore our suspicions to the contrary); Might Made Right (An F-body with a mind to match: the DRM/400 Camaro uses good sense and high tech to build a 430-bhp fury); Long-Term Tests: Toyota Supra and Saab 900SE (From the notebooks come more superlatives for our Supra and favor for our V-6 Swede) Competition – The Miracle Of Matra (A monster running amok in Tokyo? No, but Matra was on the offensive as a Grand Prix contender during the late Sixties) Technical – Technical Update: Fuel Cells (What happens when a beautiful hydrogen proton encourages a handsome electron? Electricity) Columns – Miscellaneous Ramblings (Editor-In-Chief Thos L. Bryant tosses a fresh Yule log on the holiday fire and looks back over the car year gone by); Side Glances (The pool of Duckhams shone like green blood under this streetlight. Yeah, that’s my MG, thought Ace Mechanic, car detective); Around The Sport (500-bhp 911s, carbon-fiber Vettes, supercharged Camaros and a BMW sedan vie for the World Challenge crown); Inside Formula 1 (While Benetton knits a couple of see-through wool pullovers for the FIA’s eyes, Schumacher sits out the dance in Italy); Inside Indy Car (On the prowl, Mansell tries to get back together with his old flame, Formula 1, while Al Unser Jr. woos and wins the championship) Departments – People & Places; Letters To The Editor; Years Ago, Ampersand; Reviews; Technical Correspondence; Road Test Summary; Time & Place; Tech Tidbits; Showcase; Market Place; PS
Issue: December 1994
Condition: Very Good