news • SMALL TIME Toyota’s new $15K small car, Nissan facelifts Micra and one Smart Mercedes • JEEP, LEXUS 4WDS New 4wd from Jeep, old 4wd from Lexus. And a small but saucy Citroen • MERCEDES-BENZ BLITZ Benz makes the 'V' sign with Viano people-mover and tests a glassy C class hatchback • RS4 > M3? An Audi A4 to take on the BMW M3; Golf-size A3 hatchback snapped • DECAPITATION! Diablo looses its head. Plus: a shiny Caterham • PHOTOGENIC NZ Shooting Europeans in the Shaky Isles, legendary Landies and a sobering bomb • SHORT SUPPLY Klever Koreans kapitalise and Holden's hot Europeans headed for New Zealand
features • CAR OF THE YEAR Australia's most prestigious motoring award, in more detail than ever before (Honda Odyssey) • REAR ADMIRAL The man in charge of rear-drive Fords, Ken Kohrs. on the future of our Falcon/Angus MacKenzie • MCLAREN F1 LM It's tangerine and it's a dream - that will come true for only five of the filthy rich/Iain Robertson • WHO NEEDS 4WD? To the Dog Fence in a Ford's Falcon Outback ute - almost child's play for.../Jeff Carter • ONCE WERE WARRIORS Old race drivers often turn into TV 'experts' but what happens to their cars? You'd be surprised/Michael Stahl • NORTHERN EXPOSURE II The record-breaking Alaska to LA odyssey in an overloaded Audi A4 2.6 quattro - part two/Paul Cockburn
road reports • RAG FOR RICHES Aston's DB7 loses its roof but gains a snooty name - Valance. It‘s Frightfully pretty, though/John Lamm • HEEL OR TOE Learn to behave or prepare for the pointed boot. That's the message for Rover as we drive its new 200/Peter Robinson • ON THE PROWL We purred the world's only Plymouth Prowler through some swanky suburbs and watched the foccacia hit the footpath/Michael Stahl • COMPARO Ford Laser Lynx -v- Honda Civic VTi-R -v- Nissan Pulsar SSS -v- Peugeot 306 S16/Mike McCarthy • DRIVELINES Mitsubishi Pajero V6 3500/Michael Stahl Nissan Prirnera/Bob Hall
departments • OVERSTEER Angus MacKenzie • LETTERS Come on, spit it out • AT LARGE Peter Robinson • PRICE WATCH Adam Porter • CUL DE SAC Weird stuff • TO & FROM Steve Cropley • COCK & BULL Paul Cockburn • TEN TENTHS Peter McKay • DIRTY WHEELS George Ambrose • RETRO (Ford Model T) Graham Howard
• Cover image: Peter Bateman and Roy Lawrence & Associates
news • SMALL TIME Toyota’s new $15K small car, Nissan facelifts Micra and one Smart Mercedes • JEEP, LEXUS 4WDS New 4wd from Jeep, old 4wd from Lexus. And a small but saucy Citroen • MERCEDES-BENZ BLITZ Benz makes the 'V' sign with Viano people-mover and tests a glassy C class hatchback • RS4 > M3? An Audi A4 to take on the BMW M3; Golf-size A3 hatchback snapped • DECAPITATION! Diablo looses its head. Plus: a shiny Caterham • PHOTOGENIC NZ Shooting Europeans in the Shaky Isles, legendary Landies and a sobering bomb • SHORT SUPPLY Klever Koreans kapitalise and Holden's hot Europeans headed for New Zealand
features • CAR OF THE YEAR Australia's most prestigious motoring award, in more detail than ever before (Honda Odyssey) • REAR ADMIRAL The man in charge of rear-drive Fords, Ken Kohrs. on the future of our Falcon/Angus MacKenzie • MCLAREN F1 LM It's tangerine and it's a dream - that will come true for only five of the filthy rich/Iain Robertson • WHO NEEDS 4WD? To the Dog Fence in a Ford's Falcon Outback ute - almost child's play for.../Jeff Carter • ONCE WERE WARRIORS Old race drivers often turn into TV 'experts' but what happens to their cars? You'd be surprised/Michael Stahl • NORTHERN EXPOSURE II The record-breaking Alaska to LA odyssey in an overloaded Audi A4 2.6 quattro - part two/Paul Cockburn
road reports • RAG FOR RICHES Aston's DB7 loses its roof but gains a snooty name - Valance. It‘s Frightfully pretty, though/John Lamm • HEEL OR TOE Learn to behave or prepare for the pointed boot. That's the message for Rover as we drive its new 200/Peter Robinson • ON THE PROWL We purred the world's only Plymouth Prowler through some swanky suburbs and watched the foccacia hit the footpath/Michael Stahl • COMPARO Ford Laser Lynx -v- Honda Civic VTi-R -v- Nissan Pulsar SSS -v- Peugeot 306 S16/Mike McCarthy • DRIVELINES Mitsubishi Pajero V6 3500/Michael Stahl Nissan Prirnera/Bob Hall
departments • OVERSTEER Angus MacKenzie • LETTERS Come on, spit it out • AT LARGE Peter Robinson • PRICE WATCH Adam Porter • CUL DE SAC Weird stuff • TO & FROM Steve Cropley • COCK & BULL Paul Cockburn • TEN TENTHS Peter McKay • DIRTY WHEELS George Ambrose • RETRO (Ford Model T) Graham Howard
• Cover image: Peter Bateman and Roy Lawrence & Associates