Top Gear Magazine #24 was the issue of the magazine cover-dated September 1995. Published by BBC Worldwide, it contained 258 pages and was edited by the magazine's first editor, Kevin Blick.
Cover[]
Top Gear Magazine's 24th issue, titled A - Z of Fun, featured a plain black background which contrasted heavily against its metallic gold half-cover, and pictures of various vehicles deemed fun, such as several types of motorcycles and a screenshot of the 1995 video game Sega Rally.
Contents[]
Titillating Tests[]
- Luxury me up - We test three well-upholstered limos to see which one best cossets the well-upholstered passenger in the back seat.
- Oil-burning cravats - Audi, BMW and Rover compete for the title of turbodiesel best suited to the man with 17 grand in his blazer breast pocket.
Fun Features[]
- Franco Sbarro - If you think this guy's got a weird name, you should see the cars he designs. He uses them as garden ornaments, natch.
- Save us the wing - What happens to all the paraphernalia when an F1 team becomes extinct? A flock of vultures descends to pick the bones clean at an auction, that's what.
Ripping Regulars[]
- First Gear - Occurrences, happenings, events and bizarre behaviour including rocket-fuelled motoring tragedy and Fantasy Formula One.
Amusement Park[]
- The A-Z of fun - We are the masters of mirth, the high priests of hilarity, the gurus of gladsome. Yes, we're more fun than a barrel of monkeys and we're showing you how to have lots of larks and where to get them in our all-encompassing funcyclopaedia.
Ripping Regulars (cont.)[]
- Headroom - What is it? A mutant mini-magazine trying to muscle its way in between the news and First Steers? Yes and it brings with it Fangio, Crankcase and various other bits of matter.
- First steer - Lotus S4S, BMW M3 Evolution, Mitsubishi 'Mini' Shogun, a trio of Audis, Mini Cooper S, Rover 114 Cabriolet and KTM Duke tried out.
- Columns - Don't worry, luvvies, auntie Claire Rayner is here to join our three regular boys.
- 10 Things - Watts going on [in] the world of electric cars and who's in charge of making them work.
- Win an Alfa Romeo - A 155 could be yours in our top competition.
- Write turns - The letters page gets a dose of yellow fever.
- Drivers Club - Your chance to go for a saucy holiday in Bologna. You'd be fusilli to pasta this up.
- Leftovers - All the fun we just couldn't fit in up front.
Data[]
- Used car buyers guide
- Used car of the month - Ford Sierra.
- Used car news
- Quentin Willson's pick
- New car buyers guide
- New cars by price
- Mini tests
- Directory of Manufacturers