Revisions to Modern Motor (Australia) May 1981 (Volume 27 No. 12)
Added contents:
• WAYNE CANTELL... acolumn
• BARRY LAKE... a column
• PETE McKAY... a column
• NEWSLINES Compiled by Peter McKay
• FORD LASER V THE REST (MAZDA 323, MITSUBISHI COLT, HOLDEN GEMINI, DATSUN PULSAR, TOYOTA COROLLA) Barry Lake backs Ford's new Laser front-wheel-drive up against its five major competitors.
• NO CLOUDS ON THE SKYLINE Wayne Cantell test drives Nissan's new 2-litre fuel-injected Skyline.
• BMW TECHNIK TAG Dev Dvoretsky attends BMW's exclusive technical "teach-in" in West Munich and tells us a little about the future.
• NEW RELEASE Fiat's twin-cam, 2-litre Superbrava could put you on the road in a real live road-going sports sedan.
• SOMETHING OLD AND SOMETHING NEW Goodyear's answer to high performance, low-profile, tyre manufacture.
• MELBOURNE '81 Melbourne's multi-million dollar car show.
• THE MINI METRO What it is, and what it could have been.
• DRIVELINES No. 1 Peter McKay samples the Subaru Leone 1.8-litre sedan.
• LET THERE BE LIGHT! A guide to improving your car's safety at night, and being seen, in the murky winter months.
• CENTRESPREAD Ford AC-GHIA: A show stopper from the Ghia design studios.
• EXPLORING THE OUTER LIMITS
Peter McKay joins the exclusive club of fortunate who have driven the expedition-turbo-charged, four-wheel-drive, Audi Quattro coupe.
• GENEVA 81 A brief look at the European Motor show circuit's number one exhibition.
• BUYING A NEW CAR The Toyota Mk II and Cressida
• A DREAM COME TRUE The De Tomaso Coupe - a hand-built exoticar which looks like having a chance of success in this day and age of multi-corporate "world cars".
• BOOK REVIEWS with Barry Lake
• HINDSIGHT Back to the good old days.
• DRIVELINES No. 2 Wayne Cantell discovers the Ford Laser Sports to be more than just stripes and blacked-out wheels.
• PLAY IT AGAIN, SAM The US Grand Prix West at Longbeach turned out another one-two win for Jones, Reutemann and the Williams team.
• FURY AVOIDS CARR TROUBLE George Fury wins the 1981 Castrol International Rally, while six-times winner, Greg Carr, sits on the sideline because of mechanical problems.
• FIFTY BOB A look into the past at one of Australia's famous old racers, with Pedr Davis.
• MOTORFAIR
• WRITELINES
• SULLIVAN
• TAYLOR
• RAT O'TOOLE
• TAILPIECE
• BARRY LAKE... a column
• PETE McKAY... a column
• NEWSLINES Compiled by Peter McKay
• FORD LASER V THE REST (MAZDA 323, MITSUBISHI COLT, HOLDEN GEMINI, DATSUN PULSAR, TOYOTA COROLLA) Barry Lake backs Ford's new Laser front-wheel-drive up against its five major competitors.
• NO CLOUDS ON THE SKYLINE Wayne Cantell test drives Nissan's new 2-litre fuel-injected Skyline.
• BMW TECHNIK TAG Dev Dvoretsky attends BMW's exclusive technical "teach-in" in West Munich and tells us a little about the future.
• NEW RELEASE Fiat's twin-cam, 2-litre Superbrava could put you on the road in a real live road-going sports sedan.
• SOMETHING OLD AND SOMETHING NEW Goodyear's answer to high performance, low-profile, tyre manufacture.
• MELBOURNE '81 Melbourne's multi-million dollar car show.
• THE MINI METRO What it is, and what it could have been.
• DRIVELINES No. 1 Peter McKay samples the Subaru Leone 1.8-litre sedan.
• LET THERE BE LIGHT! A guide to improving your car's safety at night, and being seen, in the murky winter months.
• CENTRESPREAD Ford AC-GHIA: A show stopper from the Ghia design studios.
• EXPLORING THE OUTER LIMITS
Peter McKay joins the exclusive club of fortunate who have driven the expedition-turbo-charged, four-wheel-drive, Audi Quattro coupe.
• GENEVA 81 A brief look at the European Motor show circuit's number one exhibition.
• BUYING A NEW CAR The Toyota Mk II and Cressida
• A DREAM COME TRUE The De Tomaso Coupe - a hand-built exoticar which looks like having a chance of success in this day and age of multi-corporate "world cars".
• BOOK REVIEWS with Barry Lake
• HINDSIGHT Back to the good old days.
• DRIVELINES No. 2 Wayne Cantell discovers the Ford Laser Sports to be more than just stripes and blacked-out wheels.
• PLAY IT AGAIN, SAM The US Grand Prix West at Longbeach turned out another one-two win for Jones, Reutemann and the Williams team.
• FURY AVOIDS CARR TROUBLE George Fury wins the 1981 Castrol International Rally, while six-times winner, Greg Carr, sits on the sideline because of mechanical problems.
• FIFTY BOB A look into the past at one of Australia's famous old racers, with Pedr Davis.
• MOTORFAIR
• WRITELINES
• SULLIVAN
• TAYLOR
• RAT O'TOOLE
• TAILPIECE