http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b226/valueduser/wheels-magazine-cordia/

2 articles from 84 and 85 - the 'Performance Lives' and 'Cordially Quick' articles.

haha, good stuff champ
i'm sure they will be a good read for a few people, i've got that top magazine. i've got another too, i might also scan it and post it like you've done.... if i can be bothered lol

Man I was about 2 buy that mag from eBay

Cheers champ, u saves us $10

Another 1/3 tank 'o gas

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1988 AC GSR · Standard 4G62 with Dash 12 Valve Head · AB Fuel Setup · High Flown TC05 · 3 Inch Exhaust · 9.5 PSI

Look at the page that says "Cordially Fast" The wheel is missin a dust cover!!!

And the dude driving (Look at "performance lives") looks like the 'im in porn' dude from my avatar

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1988 AC GSR · Standard 4G62 with Dash 12 Valve Head · AB Fuel Setup · High Flown TC05 · 3 Inch Exhaust · 9.5 PSI

LOL

I have some other magazines too but I need to locate them.

I could talk all day about the cordia. I had 19 years worth of contact with one and done everything youc ould possibly imagine to it. I've lost count of the number of engines I had let alone the number of times I took one in and out.

My father bought it new in 1986 and I took it over in 1992 on my P's. Incidentally the cordia is listed on the list of things the RTA is banning for P platers in NSW. (p.78 next to evo lancers)

They are the best car reviews I've ever seen of a cheap car ever!!!.. but I spose when I turn the page in one of them and there's an article about Alan bond bring new Hyundai's in ... (man those original Excel's sucked) and on the page before a comparison with a 323 and a colt ... there really wasn'tm uch competition back then .. ET pulsar's sucked, Exa's were better but still sucked, tx3/5 turbo were awful (how many have I seen with an engine mount pulled out of the chassis) .... what else was cheap and quick back then.

You can't get more complimentary than that ehh!!

They really are a great car and in purist terms are far better than most of the crud that comes now.. If it wasn't just getting so old I'd still swap mine back on my new (gf's) nissan with NA sr20. (Replacing that in the future.) Mine still used to beat the crap out of things with extra zero's on the end of thr price tag including the NA sr20 above of course.

often things now (like new lancer) aren't much overbuilt or overengineered anymore but most things on the cordia are at least double overbuilt which is what I like. You don't see suspension like that on cars in the cordia's new price bracket anymore.

I've worked on a few 2000+ wrx's and a few less than evo3 lancers and the chassis's are so crap ... one tiny bump on the firewall is such a huge dent. You can ram the engine taking it in and out into the firewall and it will just scratch the paint in a cordia .... well generally anyway... don't try it :>

the manufacturers claim those are safety features BTW re absorbtion zone or absorbing impact. In the lancer i've read stuff about it being for engine submarine control (so it goes under the floor not thru the firewall in an accident).

In a LOT of cars now don't even any spot welds holding major structural parts of the chassis together. They GLUE them together using sikaflex type stuff. I was horrified! The strength comes from the composite/layered construction anyway but gee .. let's go dip the chassis in acid and watch it fall apart! They do this as spot welds 'tear out' and are a point of weakness re the basic material stgrenth and weld weakening area. the glue is supposedly better as it distributes loads across wider area and allows SOME movement.. Bugger that is my response.!

If someone wants to have the 2 magazines .. call it $15 if you want the hard copies ... I was going to keep them around for no real reason other than I liked the car and had owned one for so long ... but if someone wants them for a greater collection I'll say goodbye to them.

It's really funny looking at the ad's during the time too - 'world class luxury VL' for instance :>... including the cordia's advert 'move up or move over' in which they say it's 'turbo microelectronics' system has control over the ignition timing (crap... absolutely)

I also had serious doubts on the validity of the information where they're talking about experimental cordia in a wind tunnel with tilting wings and things. It just sounded like journalism crap is all I have to base that view on tho.

I have a street machine mag with similar info to the wheels article. Nether the less, the info provided was GOLD. Cheers.