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Stahly spends precious wheel-time in a Jaguar
C-Type, by 1987 already worth $350,000
WheelsMag.com.au/classic
THE WAY IT WAS
Our first drive of the benchmark-shattering McLaren F1; Stahly compares the Ford Capri XR2 Turbo with the
Mazda MX-5 Classic, Carey compares the Mitsubishi Magna with the Toyota Camry; Robbo profiles BMW’s
maverick head of design, Chris Bangle; Evan Green contests the reprise of the London-to-Sydney marathon.
IOC president Juan Antonio
Samaranch announces
Sydney as the host city of
the 2000 Summer Olympics.
Beijing, Manchester, Istanbul
and Berlin are runners up.And the winner is...
The5.0-litreV8Group3A
touringcarformulakicks
off in Oz (replacing the
international Group A regs.)
The category would become
V8 Supercars four years later.9
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Virginia woman Lorena
Bobbitt grabs global headlines
after chopping off her
husband John’s appendage
while he is asleep.Just a bit off the end
ALSO IN WHEELS, July 1993
Coming clean
Years later Franco Cimatti, now Ferrari’s
advanced development boss, admitted
that despite at least three production
fixes, the 456’s wind-noise problem,
created by the frameless side glass, was
never cured. Today I’m happy to admit
I got it wrong regarding the styling.
Like so many Pininfarina designs, the
456 has aged elegantly and any of my
original thoughts that it was derivative
have long since vanished. This is classic
PF, cleaner and more graceful than the
(also Pininfarina-styled) 550 Maranello
that came later off the same mechanical
architecture (though with a shorter
wheelbase) and borrowed too many
design cues from older Ferraris.Godzilla be gone