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Your host for you John Davis alone welcome Mohar week. We're glad to have you with us. Last week in the fourth installment of our annual series Our what's new from America's big three automakers we feature the latest products from Chrysler. This week it's Ford's turn. In recent years Henry Ford's brainchild has been regarded as the strongest domestic auto maker in 94 with both completely new models and the latest versions of the old paper it should be even stronger. America's number two auto maker continues to pick up speed and market share with winners like Taurus and explorer and again should continue over the next 12 months with no less than four major new entry. Ford begins the 94 model year with more modest efforts. First up is a revamped Ford Thunderbird and Mercury Cougar x R 7. The latest bird has a new bra and rear facia a standard car in the super charged

SC coupe share the same work. Cosmetics aside changes are larger under the hood but the addition of Ford single cam modular 4.6 leader V8. Its 205 horsepower slightly better as last year's 5 liter of both driveability and economy make bigger gains. A new electronic automatic transmission the same one used in the Lincoln Mark 8 makes a smooth companion traction control as a new option. Inside a new instrument panel range necessary to fit the standard dual airbag gauges and component style controls dominate driving both the be a T-bird L X and cougar X R7 is now a much more refined affair and with a continuation of boards value pricing. These rear drive creations should remain popular. In much the same vein comes a revised Mercury Capri. Fords Australian import also wears new rock and rear treatments although the lower air dam still compliments retracting headlights. Power remains the same inside twin airbags are now standard combined with front wheel drive no

small convertible seems more concerned with all weather safety. Now Ford knows that Capri small back seat may never be used for adults but it does make the car more versatile. The same can be said brakes tended cab compact pickup trucks and they too are growing in popularity especially among young family buyers hoping to match trendiness with usefulness. Ford puts the flashy splash treatment on its Ranger super cab a longer splash still has the original player side cargo box. More trucks are the number one selling trucks around but the full size F-Series leading the way for 94 F series safety is enhanced with a driver's airbag and a high mounted stop lamp. Inside are new radios and a nifty 40 20 40 split front seat turbo charge seven point three meter be a diesel engine is the latest power train EDITION. Virtually all other board and Lincoln Mercury carry over models also get one or two air bags standard for 94 including escort and the village a minivan. VILLAGER puts the luxury logo nautical model into

production while Continental adds a touch of sportiness with a new front bucket seats. But all this is just the beginning for debuts at a revamped Festiva shortly to be known as a spy or both the three and new five door many cars will have to air bags standard and an antilock brake option. An early spring comes what may be the next front will drive minivans star. The Ford Windstar based on the tourist it is slightly longer than market leading Chrysler minivans with both a 3.8 leader V-6 and dual airbag standard. In late spring board will introduce two American versions of its latest World car this European board Mondeo is the mechanical basis for the Ford Contour and Mercury Mystique. But American styling will be much more interesting about the size of a Honda Accord the Mondeo is roomy and the light the dry part. But all of this is just filler to what will likely be the most talked about new car of 90 for the next generation Ford Mustang on sale in early December just in time for its

30th birthday. Your original pony car is back 90s style with an all-American look muscular engines a stronger wider chassis and a ride and handling combination that will take on all comers. Great for all of this and you lock up first time auction from horse in Brill and set side scoops to try section rear lamps. Virtually all of the styling ques of the original Mustang are present. But while the fatback group of the hoop is exhilarating it is the convertible that is intoxicating. A low top stack means clean lines from front to back. A removable hard top will be an option. All tops cover a dual airbag twin cockpit interior that insures Mustang entertainment for both driver and passenger engine power for the base Mustang is surprisingly strong with 145 horsepower from the farms a venerable three point eight leader V-6. All those five leaders the pushrod with two hundred fifteen horses will power the GTI like 93. A higher output Cobra version is on tap for spring.

Board and its dealers are clearly on a roll and the momentum will likely gain in 1904. Right back for a moment. When you first started learning how to draw. How old were you. 60 maybe 50. But chances are you really started learning at a much earlier age. RFI reporter Lisa Bell explain. The many reasons for reacting that way. Maybe you've had a tough day or you didn't get enough sleep or according to psychologist your driving behavior could be traced back to childhood and your parents.

You're learning from the period. How is a car used what does a car need. For example a parent gets one parent gets terribly angry at other drivers and another parent in the family does not. The children learn different things one child learns. You fight when you drive. You fight people who are enjoying your space with another car. Another child learns that some of the drivers are rude and stupid you stay out of their way. According to the experts parents have the major influence in a child's life. The example that a parent sets gives them an idea of how to drive when they're older. But there are other influences on the child besides their parents. I think what affects children's driving attitudes and more importantly their behaviors is what they see other people do. What goes on in their communities. Do people talk about say do they talk about getting drunks on the road what they hear other people talk about and what they see other people doing. Clearly influence is what they do and how they deal with essentially has added

some safety experts and suggested that playing with cars and crashing them is sending the wrong message to children. But others disagree. You know their play with cars with little kids has absolutely nothing to do with it if you think the children enjoy this kind of wild play question brings together knocking things over. As a child moves into the teen years and begins to drive like how does it differ as to who has the most influence over the teenager. Well it's interesting about the car the car is my freedom. So in their car they're their own person for a change. Their own boss for a change. And we're going to do whatever their peers reinforce or support them you know. And that's where the parents lose control and the peer influence takes over. Not every youngster when he reaches adolescence is equally controlled by peer influence. A lot of youngsters say you want to drive this way. Enjoy yourself. Well parents are not the sole influence in a child's life. They are the best role model a child

can have. So keep in mind it's up to you to create the next generation of safe driver was going to but now it's time for our top mechanic Pat Goss. He's got the kind of helpful Karkare advice that every owner needs. John one of the preventive maintenance things that I recommend is that the brakes on a car be flushed at least once a year so you brake fluid absorbs more oyster and that moisture can build up to the point where it damages the internal parts of the hydraulic system of the car. Well by bleeding the system and flushing the system at least once a year you make those parts last a lot longer. Well in the past you had to have something that was relatively elaborate and expensive like this power bleeder. But there is salvation for the do it yourself for today and it comes in the form of a new kit that is made by weight. In the first part of it is this easy fill kit and what this amounts to is something

that keeps the master cylinder from running dry. In the past if you were bleeding brakes you had to go through the operation of constantly going back under the hood to make sure that you didn't run out of fluid. Well now you simply put fresh fluid in the auto fill unit. Then you turn this upside down on top of the master cylinder like so it seeks its own level it keeps the master cylinder full throughout the process. OK now what do we need. We need something like this. We need a service manual because brakes are different today there may be a specific bleeding pattern that you have to follow. You get that from the service manual. You don't do it right you could get yourself in a lot of trouble. Then you need dot for brake fluid. Use dot 4 instead of dot 3 because it will stand the heat better and it only costs a few cents extra. You know we've got all of that but what about the real working part of this. Well here we have the bleeder system itself another part of the way con kit.

Nothing but a plastic bottle with a tube on it and in the tube there's a check valve check valve makes it so that brake fluid can come out of the wheel cylinder or caliper whatever you're working on. But Air can't go back in. This simply gets attached over the bleeder valve on the particular wheel that you're working on. Put the wrench on the bleeder valve first then you have somebody in the car pump the brake pedal. Now you could do it yourself but it's a whole lot easier if you have somebody to help you. You haven't pumped the pedal if you would please. OK. We've got the pedal pumped up. Now we open the bleeder valve and we see fluid come out of the caliper in this case. Now we simply pump the brake pedal very slowly until we have fresh clean fluid coming out of that particular part on the car. Then you move on to the next wheel until the whole job is done. Makes it real easy to do makes the brake system last a lot longer and increases the safety of your

vehicle. And if you have a question about your car write to me. If I use your letter on the air I'll send you a motor week T-shirt. The address is Motor Week or wings Mills Maryland 2 1 1 1 7. This car of the week is a rare one indeed. It's a nine hundred fifty five willies Bermuda hard Tom owned by James worst of Wapakoneta Ohio sin good color photos of your car of the week candidate to motorway Owings Mills Maryland 2 1 1 1 7. Now from all the cars it's time to get back to new ones. More specifically one of the newest cars from box why can it go off 3. After some rough years beat obvious counting on the latest golf and its close relative the jet a three to revive the company's lagging U.S. sales. But the question is is the golf 3 good enough to get box wagon back in the game.

Oh. This third generation VW is already a winner overseas since its introduction at the Frankfurt Motor Show just two years ago. It's become the world's best selling car. Unfortunately for both wagon dealers in the US none of those sales happened here and now 3s are available and we think that's good news for American buyers desiring a small car that drives like a very substantial German sports sedan winning ways start with a more rounded look to its traditional to box shape which results in the low point three to coefficient of drag. There's noticeable improvement under the hood too when the base engine is now a two liter single overhead cam four cylinder. It develops 115 horsepower and one hundred twenty two pound feet of torque. Thanks to sequential multi-port fuel injection and a high 10 to 1 compression ratio yet it still uses regular fuel hold and vr power arrives in the DTI next spring. Meanwhile I got three G.L. came with a five speed manual transmission. One of the better shipping VW units we've tried a 4 speed

automatic is available high speed to move the 2500. 77 How long are you going to 60 in 10 seconds flat. Oh I drive will be even faster. Handling exercises presented no surprises. Our test drivers graze the white accurate steering with just the right amount of predictable oversteer unlike every other small bead got tested in recent years ago offeree lifted its inside rear wheel while negotiating our slalom course and it never causes concern. Not even in a high speed lane change but we also found a good bit of body roll. I guess car was one of the few 93 Mexican built box to enter the US and thus it didn't have any lock brakes which are optional on 94 models. It would cure our car's tendency to lock up under heavy braking. This cough stop from 60 in a fairly long average distance of one hundred thirty eight feet. Other numbers the gun buyers will like better are the 24 City 32 highway EPA mileage estimates are very mixed test loop return 28 mpg.

The coppery G.L. has an attractively bright cloth interior and will include standard dual airbags on cars built after October gauges are typical large and clear but lacking oil pressure and bolts. The front bucket seats have a variety of manual adjustments and clothing height and they all work well. These are two of the seven beverage holders beat up your proudly claims for the new golf the roomy rear seat folds forward and down and when combined with the hatchbacks trunk forms a giant 41 cubic feet of cargo space more than some small station wagon 994 Goff Regio prices start at eleven thousand nine hundred dollars with abs a deluxe stereo power sunroof and air conditioning. The tab comes to fourteen thousand three hundred thirty five dollars. Not bad when you consider $16000 civics and well as are common place. So we came away pleased if almost tired of waiting for the Volkswagen free we know there are millions of loyal fans. Not to mention hundreds of dealers

that have also waited for them the new gong to be a winning addition to the VW brand and we think well worth it. Meet with. Our star once again for Lisa Bello. Here she is with all the latest. We got our first chance John to drive Chrysler's new small car the Dodge in Plymouth neon distressed me and importance to be international as well as American markets. Chrysler unveiled it at Germany's Frankfurt Motor Show only 31 months after the original neon concept car was introduced at the Detroit Auto Show. The production neon follows the cab forward School of Design plan here by Chrysler's big LH sedans but retains little of the original neon show cars styling except the unusual oval headlights. The Neons comfortable interior features standard dual airbags and under the sloping Hood is a new 16 valve to Lior four cylinder engine that produces 130 few words power. The neon feels like a much larger car with a stable civilized drive

unlike small cars from other domestics Chrysler expects the neon to be profitable but prices will still start under $10000 and that's it for this week's Motor News. During his travels along the high road Greg thing Haas's encountered literally hundreds of car clubs and be it alcohol or ample car. Every one of these clubs has been devoted to a single mark. Recently however Craig found a club that encourages enthusiasm for all cars. He goes by the unusual name

of target 66. And. Target 66 is the brainchild of racing legend Brian Redmond a man who knows a thing or two about spending the weekend in a fast car. All told a six to six is a limited membership club for people who have a strong interest in collector calls those collector calls may be of any age. Some of the calls were racing calls at no butts in the fifth as on some of the remote calls. This is not a competition event. Seems a strange thing coming from a person myself. Been racing for 35 years. We felt it was a need for people to please collect calls who like to come together and they like to run them. Now you can never be quite sure who or what you're going to run into. Remember these nineteen eighty nine Indy winning race car racing legend Well there's an amazing disparity of guys here there

are Indy cars here there are cars that have MC races just a year or so ago some guys I ran against him and some vintage cars here they go back in the 50s there on the racetrack at the same time. People are really just here to enjoy these cars and the cars are the stars and the people. Bring them out so that they can enjoy them but that everyone else can enjoy. This is a 1989 type 640 Formula 1 Ferrari chassis number 1 11. This will be the first time that we've taken this car on the track. We've had the car since August and so so I'm both excited and nervous about taking this was perhaps got the electronic gear shift you don't use the clutch. It's a little lever behind the steering wheel. So that'll be something else that's different. An event like this is terrific in so many ways first of all you can bring the stuff and it's a low pressure kind of thing and you go out and you can run and come in and there's no real you don't have everybody trying to race you have a lot of people experimented with their cars. You have guys like Bill Adam and Brian Redmond and Bob Bacon who have raced all over the world and they're happy to give you

advice and pointers and technical tips and so this is really an opportunity to learn a great deal to go out so fast and have a lot of fun and you get lots more track time that you do in one of the regular minute races where there's a great mixture of people or people who have been in that limo Sebring in Daytona people who really are just dreaming about this course or they want them. So those guys will get a chance to mix together. It's a wonderful idea to be able to provide people that brings great cars out rather than have them sit and garages and just get tired just. One. Oh. Now Craig's trips haven't always been a straight forward is that one why he and co-producer Maria Purdum recently came back from one trip a little spooked. They didn't want to discuss with us what really happened. But then we already knew that the highroad can be a

very strange place. It's one crank I don't know maybe want to go in there and call somebody. And. Now I don't know where you're from anyone right. All right. Use me for your phone. We need it. Yeah. I'm here Craig. It's Maria over there right. It's a 32. Yeah it's a little just because it's really neat phones out here. Thanks. Wow I haven't seen a set of slicks like this since 1960. Well that's the latest compound latest compu. Hey Craig come over here. Check out this

1944 on the right. Isn't it beautiful. Not bad for a 20 year old car hot 20 year old car. Where's my manners. The phones in here let me get you some to drink. The phones over there really get these folks a couple coach. I married you right. This may be. A hole right there. Well I've seen a bottle like that since Nixon was president. You see Nixon is president. What happened to President Eisenhower. I'm going to use the just the rules. I just love but yeah it's a shame he died last year. Oh I don't know if you.

Pretty futuristic looking car you got there. I don't think you have any trouble. Now. Where do you go. You know. You don't want to know.

Consider if you will. We were travellers we stumble through up work with the appreciation of this transcends both time and space and appreciation so intense that it can only exist in the mind a mind lost in the Highlands. Next week on motorways. What's new from GM 494 and John David to order a video cassette of this program. Call 1 800 4 2 2 0 0 6 4. Or send twenty nine ninety five plus $4 shipping and handling to this address. That expanded version of motor weeks in Jaguar the roar of the cat is available

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