REAR VIEW
30 YEARS AGO - FEBRUARY 1992
AN all-petrol comparo that pitted the two-door Disco against a SWB Pajero and a two-door Ford Maverick was this issue’s big vehicle test. The Maverick (aka, a rebadged Nissan Patrol) was slightly ahead of the others if you wanted a reliable, tough, go-anywhere 4WD, while the Disco was deemed ‘king’ if you could bear the seven grand extra you had to pay for it. Mind you, picking up a new Disco for 42 grand back then, seems pretty cheap compared to what you pay today!
Then there was a plethora of destination stories that took you from the Malaysian jungle to Victoria’s south-west, the northern realms of Kosciuszko National Park and to the ‘Lost City’ in the Northern Territory.
Meanwhile, Moonie got stuck in to the greenies in his editorial, something he still gets to do occasionally … and happily!
