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In summary. Corvette’s onti-lock braking system provides * Steering control during nord braking * Virtually eliminates skidding *

Wheels independently seek maximum adhesion level

Vehicle anti-theft system

Corvette'’s passive and disabling vehicle anti-theft system (VATS) continues os standard equipment for 1987. The core of the system is o special VATS module with a resistor decoder and on ignition key embedded with a pellet of specitied resistance. Other equipment includes @ special always-open starter relay ond o ‘smart’ ignition lock cylinder.

When the key is placed in the ignition, lock cylinder contacts

e resistance. The VATS module then dec

VATS uses 15 different resistors. With this number and the two to-three minute ‘atter each attempt to find the correct resistor, the average defeat time by trial and error is 15 to 20 minutes. Experts consider thot a 10-minute delay is sufficient to deter the most resourcetul thiet

Code information cannot be retrieved from the VATS module with even the most sophisticated electronic techniques

As well, the anti-theft horn alarm circuitry with the starter in terrupt feature is continu

The Accord is arguably one of the finest all-round automobiles in the world

MOTOR TREND MAGAZINE (November '85)

The 87 Honda Accord is a seamless biend of intelligence and excitement, luxury and value, family car and fine performer

To its precise rationality, we add two surp Space. More than you'd expect in all the places you need it. And handling. The kind a driving enthusiast would expect to find in a sports cor

Overall, we add the precision quality of Honda engineering to ensure that anything this thrilling will always hove your pertect con- fidence Listening to the desires of those who sit behind the wheel led us to break with the conventional wisdom that suggested a family car couldn't be anything other than a car for the tami

But all of a sudden, here it is.

THE AJAC AWARD

The Automobile Journalist's Association of Canodo voted the ‘86 Honda Accord Best New import Sedon of the Year

The AJAC award is one of the many glowing tributes we expect to garner for the new Accord’s stunning overall excellence. we con keep the overflow in the Accords dramatically increased trunk space.

Other changes for 1987 include exciting new color schemes the Accord luxury model (the EX!) now is available with a S-speed transmission, the Prelude Special Edition is now available in o rich black colour and automatic transmission. in the spring of '87 H: will introduce the long awaited Civic Wagon Four-Wheel Drive

Honde is constantly the No. | Japonese Import Car providing o truly luxurious car for a “beer budget

MONTREAL (CP) — Even though Canada’s Armed Forces haven't donned their new uniforms, the new colors have boosted the morale of the Quebec garment industry which has received the lion's share of the money being spent on the changover.

So far, 70 cents of every dollar spent on the uniforms has gone to Quebec-based companies which have reaped $36 million in the production of the traditionally-colored uniforms.

The air force will once again be in the sky blue, a little darker than the old shade of the Royal Canadian Air

Force. Sailors will be clad in double-breasted navy blue while their summer uniforms will be white.

Soldiers will continue to wear green but the tunics are being cut from a lighter fabric and a new tan summer uniform has been added.

The distinctive uniforms of land, sea and air were abolished and replaced with green when the three services were unified into the umbrella Canadian Forces in 1968.

The green uniforms remained a point of contention for many members of the Forces and in 1964, when he

became defence minister, Nova Scotia Tory Bob Coates initiated the return of the old uniforms.

The 85,000 regular members and 25,000 reserve members will require 2.2 million individual items of clothing, ranging from 115,000 new black ties for air and navy personnel to 3,660 white skirts for women in the navy.

Two million new rank badges are also needed. CREATES JOBS These millions of items add up to jobs — and most of them are in Quebec.

Quebec gets lion's share of contracts

The project will create and sustain 1,600 jobs over four years, said Jacques Laflamme, who is in charge of ordering the uniforms for the Department of Supply and Services.

Of the 250 contracts awarded so far, 128 representing $36 million have so far gone to Quebec, because it is the centre of the textile industry, said Laflamme.

While Montreal is gaining the biggest benefit, other garment making centres like Toronto and Winnipeg have also received million-dollar orders.

Some Changes You Can See ... Others You Can Feel!

And there are some definite changes! Experience them at the

’87 Model Showin

Friday, Oct. 24 9a.m. -9 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 25 9a.m.-6p.m.

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FEATURES: Automatic locking hubs 2.2 litre, electronic fuel injec ted engine Standard 5-speed monvol over drive transmission For all-weather driveability the optional 4-speed automatic overdrive transmission is the family favourite, particularly

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Toyota the world standard in 4WD vehicles!

4WD Van LE opens new holiday poths as it lets you trail nd launch that boat almost anywhere

Campers

Love the way the bench seats fold to make an occasional bed And even in the wild. the optional 40-watt ETR stereo cassette ser

The 1987 Toyota Van is available in two editions, the Deluxe and LE. (Actually there's a third + more about it later!) Both offer the sturdy 2.2 litre engine with electronic fuel injection for efficiency

outo-reverse, full logic control tape deck with Dolby B* noise

4WD selector flicks you into Hi-range 4WD. Standard variable power assist rock and pinion steering with o turning circle of just 32.1 ft remarkably tight for any 4 WO vehicle

* Power assisted front disc/rear

drum brakes

reduction.

1987 Brings the "Sport" Corollas

High-performance Corollas, the GT-S Sport Coupe and Liftback

The 1987 GT-S Sport Corrola at its heart is the race-style 1.6 litre twin cam engine which pumps out 112 hp at 6600 rpm, well below its 7500 rpm redline With 16 valves, 4 per cyclinder, this engine gets the kind of free-breathing on intake and exhaust cycles that produces not only power but surprising economy too

Check out this sports-worthy running gecr, like the 4-wheel power disc brakes, the variable-assist

power rack and pinion sfeering. Note the race-inspired features, like the engine oil cooler, low profile steel belted radial tires, rear-drive and balanced suspen sion

A sophisticated driver's sport seat guarantees custom fit by means of six separate adjustments. The side bolsters swing in and out for torso control, the seat cushion adjusts vertically, and there's even a pneumatic lumbar cushion you can pump up for the right degree of back support!

Ford's Tracer compares well with Mazda 323

es

FORD TRACER FOUR-DOOR HATCHBACK . . . This made in Taiwan car is a Mazda 323 in almost every other respect

One of the intriguing things about the 1987 car model year is its diversity

Manutacturers are bringing in cars from all over the place. For example. VW with the Brazilian-built Fox, Chrysler with the Chrysler-Maserati, GM with their Pininfarina-styled Allante, and Ford with their made-in-Taiwan Tracer, which is sold through the Mercury /Lincoln dealer network

The Tracer is produced by Ford Lio Ho. of which Ford owns 70 per cent, and it’s actually a cosmetically altered Mazda 323. Same running gear, basically the same interior, and, with minor changes tailights grill, body trim — the same body. Where the 323 is available as a two-door hatchback, four-door sedan and four-door station wagon, the Tracer comes as a two-door or four-door hatchback

This is good news. as the Tracer appears to be as well-assembled as the 323. Fit and finish are ex cellent, and the cars run very much the same with some minor differences. The Tracer interior, for example, has an extra five cubic feet of cargo space and cloth seats are standard

Both engines are 1.6 litre, ohc four-bangers, but the Tracer is six cc's smaller in size and develops 71 hp compared to 82 for the 323. Reason: the Mazda has electronic fuel injection, Tracer a two-barrel car buretor. Torque output is almost the same, however

Both cars have four-wheel independent suspen sion, rack and pinion steering, 13 inch wheels, and front disc/rear drum brakes. The 323 is the faster of the two, but not overwhelmingly so.

The Tracer seems to be an excellent little runabout. Good on gas around 9.5 L, 100 km (30 mpg) — as comfortable as the 323, with the same firm ride, adequately powered, and very driveable

The Tracer is a few dollars more expensive thar the 323, but comes with more standard features

Now. effective today, Nissan announces Pathfinder, a new name and a brand-new 4x4 utility wagon Pulsor NX, a familiar name, but a totally new con cept in sporty coupes. It makes its world debut in Canada 300Zx, also making a world debut. freshly streamlined and featuring several technical retinements 200SX. a hot-seller, updated for 1987 Sentra 4WD, a compact wagon with push-button four-wheel drive A four-door version of the Micra sub-compact And the award-winning Multi minivan, now available with automatic transmission in both two wheel drive and four-wheel-drive

Bonneville,

“the next great road machine from Pontiac"

Bonneville is everything Pontiac stands for, an expression of excitement and youthtuiness with a European flair. Aimed directly at the growing Sport Sedan segment of the market, the Bonneville will without a doubt make its mark against competition such as the Audi 5000S, BMW 528e, Toyota Cressida and the Volvo 740/760. Like the Fiero, Grand Am and 6000 STE before it, the new Bonneville retlec- ts Pontiac's commitment to innovative styling along with outstanding performance

and roadability

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1987 Pontiac Bonneville SE

By Patrick Berland, Car & Driver, Oct. '86

‘Apert trom being o rother agreeabte cor. this new Bonneville is significant for what it tells us

elegonce. It you're the sort who gets a little lift every time you glimpse an Audi 50005, a rehash

new 1986

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about GM. The questions keep coming up. What are the differences between the vorious divisions? Are they all the some except for the advertising?

The Bonneville is a revealing case study because it's one of GMs off-the-rack models basically the some big front-driver that in other stores wears such labels such os Buick LeSabre Buick Electra, Olds Delta 88. Olds Ninety Eight Codillac de Ville, and Cadillac Fleetwood

‘Oh, wow, how can that be? Those others are all yucky chromey. ond this 1s so. well, you know. designer

Ah. yes. thats the point. GMs big front-drive plottorm gets reasonably good reviews on these pages. If seems to be the first confident execution of an American-style cor since the energy crunch discredited the General's troditional methods. The thing is smooth. quiet and comtortable

But. boy. 1s 1t Peoria. too. The seats ore so loose-pillow. and the dosh vents are so triple chrome, ond the exterior lines so simulated

at GM lettovers trom the seventies simply wont do, no matter how hardware under

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This new Bonneville, however, is a way to have your American-style power-ossisted com. fort and not be embarrassed by the look of it And as 0 corporate strategy. having some divisions purveying Peoria and others hawking haut Europe is as foolproof as bel! and suspen: ders Pontiec, in case you've missed all its gestures 1s GM's next-best-thing-to-foreign division. Thot e plays very weil in the Bonneville. The ex terior is clearly 0 GM shape, but holf-dissolved. as if t had soaked for a while in some Europeon And dashboord is pure Coventry. with beautifully simple numbers and long sweeping end an expanse of

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tor inspiration. Pontiac looks abroad: and if the differences among GM cars are to be little more than skin-deep, the Bonneville at least has fresh looking skin

The new Bonneville comes in only one bosic form: a four-door sedan with a 3.8-liter, sequen fol-fuel-injection V-6 and outomatic. Three trim levels culminate most-Euro-ot-all SE package. which includes fighter suspension tuning, alloy wheels with 215 658-15 Eagle GT tires, o leather-wr steering wheel. fog lamps, and a snorty muttler

With your butt in the driver's bucket and your hands on the wheel. there's no chance of con fusing the Bonneville with a Saab or an Audi. The ride harshness is too well controlled, and horocteristic GM quivers come up through the ‘column. This cor is @8 American as the salt flats of the some nome. But it suggests that GM, after 2 time of forgettuliness, may be remembering why Alfred P. Sloan wanted all those divisions in the first ploce. The customers aren! all alike, so the cors shouldn | be either

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The big switch started with the launch of Nissan s Multi mini-van.

It continued last spring with the debut of an initial wave of 1987 models — Sentra compacts, family-sized Stonzas, Maxima executive sedons. and a new generation family of pickup trucks

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