Top Gear Magazine/UK/March 1994

Top Gear Magazine #6
Win Ford's new Probe, and go here to test drive it
Issue No.	6
Price	£2.40
Cover date	March 1994
Page count	264
Editor	Kevin Blick
Publisher	BBC Worldwide
Prev issue	Issue 5 (February 1994)
Next issue	Issue 7 (April 1994)

The sixth issue of Top Gear Magazine/UK was released for the cover date of March 1994. Published by BBC Worldwide, the issue contained 264 pages and was edited by the magazine's first editor-in-chief, Kevin Blick.

Cover

Jeremy Clarkson in Utah with the Ford Probe

Issue #6 of Top Gear Magazine's cover‎‎ exclusively featured the Ford Probe, with a sun-kissed desert mesa in Utah serving as the background, which is also the location that the competition winner is to drive said Probe. The cover photograph was taken by an unknown photographer.

Contents

On The Front

• Win the Probe: Not just the most exciting car Ford have made for a long time, not just the most spectacular scenery you'll ever see, not just the most brilliant holiday you'll ever have, not just the most in-depth and incisive road test you'll read anywhere, but a great big picture of our Editor looking exactly like Harvey Keitel, too. And some phantom pigeons. And some fine boxes of fish.

Regulars

• First gear: The new VW Beetle, the latest Land Rover, American invasion, hairy bikers get all post-Kandinsky, all sorts of stuff.
• First steer: Renault Laguna, Hyundai Sonata, Seat Ibiza GTi, Citroen ZX Estate, Vauxhall Corsa auto, Honda Civic coupe. Phew.
• Steering columns:
  • Jeremy Clarkson has an announcement to make. Sh. Quiet over there. Now then...
  • Quentin Willson on a Honda surprise
  • Tiff Needell races to get to the point
  • Guest columnist John McVicar with a true-life tale of vengeance and vendettas

Company... Halt!

• Firm facts: What the tax changes will mean to you - an in-depth in-detail investigation.
• The price of freedom: Quentin looks at the used cars you could get instead of your dull old company hack.
• Six £15,000 cars: A test with a difference. You've canned your company car; what do you buy now?

Grand Tour

• Two tested: BMW 840 vs Jaguar XJS.
• Champagne days: How it was way back when.

More Things

• Steve Coogan: Funny man meets straight Andy Wilman.
• The Phone Grabbers: We investigate today's latest high-tech racket - phone grabbing.
• Sands of silence: Vauxhall make their new ad, we go too.
• Family car frenzy: Six 1.4-litre hatchbacks strut their stuff.
• Antiques roadshow: Cars that have gone abroad to retire.
• Plink plink fizz: Clarkson goes to drive some spectacular supercars but doesn't.
• Bikes off-road and on: Quick green laning, fast traffic-jamming.

Yet More Things

• The Top Gear club: More offers, competitions and stuff than your little mind can conceive of.
• Rear view: A new series on recent cars that make great second-hand buys. First: the BX.
• All change: The next big thing to come in boxes.
• Gearbox: Want some deeply desirable consumer goods? Watch this.
• RAC advice: Why, why not, why with him?
• Write turns: Loads of letters on why we keep calling the letters lettuce. And faxes of fish.
• Car chase: Our brand new service - bespoke car advice; made-to-measure help.
• Auto Jungle: A poet and a Volvo, neatly crayoned.

Car Buying Guide

• Used car buyers guide: The used car market this month plus Quentin Willson's guide to what's worth buying and what's worthless.
• New car buyers guide: All the info on every car there is, specially expanded this month.
• New cars listed by price: All the cars on the market, pound for pound. Plus our lists of which ones we rate and which we hate.
• Manufacturers directory: Where to find all the details from the people who really know.