

Mazda's RX-7 is the smallest and lightest and costs the least: base price, $33,603. In this case, it's sort of a go-fast tax, because that's what the bottom line really buys: speed. Most can be had for $40,000 or so, give or take a few thousand based on options, manufacturer's name, country of origin, and "luxury" tax. These coupes are the cream of a rich cash crop.

Official testing will end with Hungarian Hot Laps back in California, at Willow Springs Raceway. We're spurring toward Utah, a state as vivid in its color and variety as are the cars (see sidebar). Today is the first sunny day of five to come, a window-streaming of Cinemascopic places that fulfilled the promise of Technicolor for big-screen westerns and will, in a few hours, fill our car windows to overflowing. This will be the first American road test of an actual production specimen. A tough new car under a comfortable old name, it means to kick the Crayolas out of the whole colorful lot of its natural enemies. Besides, Toyota has wholly reconstituted and outrageously energized the Supra. But they've all been improved in increments. which dido 't make it the last time we pulled off one of these king-hell comparos, the others have been bested repeatedly by the superb 300ZX Turbo. Plus the altogether new Toyota Supra Turbo. Taken alphabetically, our half-dozen cars are the familiar Chevrolet Corvette LT1, Mazda RX-7, Mitsubishi 3000GT VR4, Nissan 300ZX Turbo, and Porsche 968.
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Yet these cars have one thing in common: they allow the driver in you to push your luck as far as you can get away with. Others are professionally turned out in most every aspect of sporting behavior. Some of these half-dozen machines lean toward grand touring as a prime avocation.
