If you think GT stands for "Getting Tame" it's time to test drive the RS

The Ford RS Mexico has the extra bite GT's can't quite muster. Its precise handling proclaims its rally winning pedigree.

This is engineering for performance. Take features such as the twin radius arm suspension, and the single-rail, close ratio box. They contributed to Ford successes in the 1975 RAC Rally. They'll help you take your RS exactly where you decide.

Compact Performance Package

Power wells up from the 1600 ohc unit with its twin choke Weber and 4-branch exhaust. Output: 95PS DIN at 5,750 rpm; top speed 106mph; 0-60 in 10.2 seconds. Spoilers front and rear of the heavy duty body shell help straight-line stability. Inside the cockpit, deep rally bucket seats, no-glare matt black trim, rapid-read instrumentation all concentrate your control.

The price of this compact performance package is around £2,700. With the invaluable backing of the Ford Rallye Sport Dealer network included.

To know the Ford RS Mexico is to learn to love driving once again.

BARC National Car Championship Race Day - Oulton Park

Photos from Saturday 22nd September at Oulton Park, my local circuit and a fantastic place to spend a day in the sunshine. Highlights for me had to be the gorgeous little Simca Rallye 2 (Daniel Burrows) and the Lancia Fulvia of Pietro Caccamo - it sounded simply glorious in full flight accelerating up Deer Leap.

The British Automobile Racing Club championships featured were:

• CNC Heads Sports/Saloon Championship
• Thermex Classic Saloon & Historic Touring Car Championship
• McMillan Motorsport Caterham Graduates (Classic class)
• Sub Zero Wolf Classic Thunder incl Pro Driver Blue Oval Saloon
• McMillan Motorsport Caterham Graduates (Mega and Sigma Class)
• SVG Motorsport Pre 93 Touring Cars Championship
• McMillan Motorsport Caterham Graduates (Super Class)
• Autoglym Post Historic and Hammerite Group 1 Championship

Some photos below, click for the full set!

The Nissan Silvia. The reason it's so fast is the rocket behind it.

Nissan don't just make cars. In fact they designed and manufactured the rocket launchers for Japan's interplanetary space probe, which is currently observing Halley's Comet.

The same advanced technology has gone into the production of the Silvia ZX Turbo.

A true sports car that performs as well as it looks.

0-60 in 8 seconds and 130 mph from the 1.8 fuel injected turbo. That's why Car Choice said "a blisteringly quick powerhouse". But the power has to be tamed so you can handle it all.

"Its excellent chassis combines sharp, well-balanced handling with an absorbent ride" wrote Motor Magazine.

They also found that "Nissan seem to have got it right where it counts: the Silvia grips the road in a way the Japanese never used to. Always poised, never once did it feel unsettled by a surfeit of power."

And all the time you're travelling in space, cossetted by sumptuous new seat fabric and trim, with stereo sounds that are out of this world... "A radio and cassette player imposing enough for Apollo XVI" said the Sunday Express.

The Nissan Silvia ZX. Lifts off from £10,196 at your local dealer.

Moskvich - Marathon Bred

If you're on the look-out for a really inexpensive, comfortable and economical family saloon, you're looking at it - The Moskvich. It's the sort that goes on and on. Ruggedly.

Marathon tested down the Steppes - Marathon proven half way round the world. And if you think this is just so much talk like you hear about most new cars these days - read on. We're about to prove our points to you...

Inexpensive
The plushy, 1360cc, 5-seater Moskvich is yours for an unbelievable £629.7.0. And that includes Purchase Tax. And reclining seats, a heater with a 2-speed fan, 2-speed wipers, twin washers, twin visors, twin headlamps, ammeter, oil pressure gauge, oil cooler, adjustable radiator shutter, automatic reversing lights, cigar lighter, mud flaps and the most comprehensive 'we-thought-of-everything' tool kit you'll get with any car in this price range (including inspection lamp and tyre gauge). Extras in many - standard in Moskvich!

and comfortable
Throughout. From the driver's seat to rear-middle passenger's. Plushy individual front seats recline to a comfy sleeping position. Plenty of leg room both front and back. And the Moskvich is so easy to get in and out of (a boon to aged aunts and mother-in-law). 4-doors? - Of course.

and economical
Moskvich merely sips the petrol you put in. Runs on one star. Giving you a generous 30 miles per gallon and a top speed well over the limit. And "the strong point of the Moskvich's performance is its ability to slog on at a medium speed in a steady and unruffled manner" - Autocar. Need we go on?

and the Moskvich de luxe
For that little bit extra you get no less than a fitted Pye radio and aerial, hard-wearing wall-to-wall carpets, courtesy lights, wheel rim embellishers and an eye catching vinyl covered roof. All standard on the Moskvich de luxe! The Kangeroo guard is an extra extra!

and for the countryman
We offer you the Moskvich Estate. Enjoying the same features as those in the Standard Saloon. Plus the extra space and a load-hogging 2-leaf rear door. Or the Moskvich Van. Same superb features. Plus the capacity to carry no less than 8 cwt. single handed.