Show j 10 PERFORMANCES OF 1918 AUTOS WILL BE BETTER BEITER Purchasers Pure agers of New Pro Production duct clue tion 11 Are Assured i Mail Many lany Improvements ACCELERATION WILL TILL SHO SHOW W DIFFERENCE ENCE Motor Cars Will Be Less Expensive to 11 Main l aln- aln tain HE 1918 1915 motor car Is a better r performing performing per per- THE forming car than tho the one of 1917 In It n will 1 accelerate faster taster it will start easier casler It il does docs not require as long a alime time lime to warm 1 up it is easier to control control control con con- It I Is better appearing an and It Is less expensive to maintain The manner manner manner man man- ner In which these Improvements havo u been made are arc of or Interest to every o car purchaser and they spell tho the stor story of when conditions conditions conditions con con- Improvement during a a. year car have hL been disturbed as ns never Each year the difference between cen the thc up to car and tho the product of th the year eai before before- Is becoming less and less and yet ct It would not be correct to state that the 1918 1915 car Is not better than lhnn of or 1917 1911 Refinements have gone Konc on In spite of ot disturbing conditions due clue to the war and the tho man who bu buys s 's a car toda today is setting getting a a. better car than titan the tho thoman I man who bought hU his car cu a year a ago o ItI It It I Is tu true lh that t- t tp p- p pr purchasers r chasers of of cars to today today today to- to vehicles day must pay more mo-e for tor their Almost monthly a large crop of ot price IrIce increases have o been reported In allbut all allbut allbut but the very lowest priced cars Some of ol these price Increases cs havo been jumps of ot as ns much as an and others have been 25 5 and 50 but 50 but tho trend this year has hns been ever er upward One of l the e results of ot this Increased prIce in cars Is that people who a a. year car ago go bought cars costing 1500 and who are still willing to pa pay tho the same samo amount are arc demanding at the he price better performance than they got a year car ago This demand has forced the I manufacturer to put performance Into i lower priced cars which Is on a par with tho the best that can be obtained Inthe in inthe the tho highest priced cars ears Manufacturers ers have ha always responded nobl nobly to demands of or this kind and tho the past year car lias not been an exception Probably the point which Interests American buyers more than anything else cille Is that of ot acceleration They de demand doman do- do man mand a car clr which can get away awny so rapidly that the tho occupants can enn feel themselves being being- carried forward with almost resistless Impulse The Thc backs of ot tho the seats eats must always project project project pro pro- tho the occupants through the tho air In order to satisfy aUstY the demand o of tho the American 1 buyer buer for the quick up pick-up which he demands on high gear i Demand Acceleration There are aro Just two factors In acceleration acceleration weight and power or propulsive sive sivo Ivo effort If It tho the propulsive e effort cHort of or tho the engine Is Increased and the power remains the same the car carwill carwill will have more mora acceleration On the theother theother theother other hand If U the propulsive effort remains tho the same and the car la is lightened the acceleration wll be bet o increased As a a. matter of or fact durIng during during dur dur- ing tho the year by various little tricks of design the power of the en engine lne has been Increased and tho car Itself lightened through tho the more scientific distribution of or tho the material In chassis and md body bod- Probably the worst feature with which the tho designers have had to deal d during tho the year car has been the de descending dc- dc quality of gasoline More and more the fuel bought from the tho pump stations along tho the city streets or from tho the country garage garnge has approached approached approached ap ap- ap- ap kerosene If It your our hand Is dipped Into modern gasoline It will have an oily coating which was not nol visible with tho the gasoline on ort the market market mar mar- ket three or four years ears ago The heavy constituents of ot the fuel tuel are hard to evaporate and difficult difficult cult to Ignite and It has hns required Im Improvements Improvements improvements Im- Im of ot almost Inconceivable Ingenuity to enable the tho engine to handle landle this hen heavy product as efficiently efficient efficient- ly 1 as the more volatile fuels of ot the past year car The methods by which h the re- re have been accomplished vary ar In Indifferent Indifferent indifferent different factories Mainly the they may maybo may maybe be bo classified as better evaporation of or orthe the the fuel through Improved ed methods of ot Atomizing through the thc more scientific use of heat applied at the proper point to aid In evaporation through increasing In Increasing Increasing In- In creasing the velocity of ot flow In this mixing chamber and through I. better proportion of or the Intake manifold Handle Furl Fuel hotter r. r All Allor of these Improvements have ha been necessary Sar to handle the tho fuel satisfactorily satisfactorily satisfactorily being outdone even e now In spite 4 of the ba bad conditions that must be met It 18 possible for tor a a. a man to enter his garage arago where his car has been Leen standing standing- temperament all night subjected to p. p temperament tem tem- of ot close to zero and In a few tew seconds have It running regularly and within two or three minutes have ha it warmed up to a a. sufficient extent to meet the exacting conditions of ol fic tic The TIle valve proportions and nd tho the Intake passages have been still further Improve Improved Improved Im Im- Im- Im proved prove this year so that more of a charge ls is drawn Into the tho c cylinder on each Intake stroke The Tho cylinder lInder Is Ismore Ismore ismore more nearly filled with the tho result th that t l higher power Is obtained from the same size engine The cars Clr have been made mado quieter by b the substitution of nf nn H pressed fiber tiber gears In some somo Instances In place of ot steel or Iron gears gearlS The arrangements of chain drives for tor camshafts and water pump shafts have havo been rearranged to produce more mOle quiet action Oiling systems have ha been changed In n quite a few Instances from the the splash system whereby the dip of ot the connecting rods supplies the tho lubricant lu lubricant lu- lu to the tho pressure feed teed where the oil Is forced force to lo the wearing parts Clutches are quieter er acting an and the pedal pressure ne neds essary nr to operate them is considerably less leas than last rear year on a n. few cars which have havo been altered In this respect A very vcr noticeable factor fac fac- tor ln ire connecting with the control m mechanism of ot the car Is ill that the tile gear shifter lever and the tile brake lever le have havo peen been placed closer to the tho drivers driver's hand by lengthening or b by bending them In such ouch a a. way that the driver does docH not have to lean lenn forward to an any extent In shifting gears or applying the hand brake At th the same samo time the tile motion 0 or of the shifter l lever vor Is ls shorter than lhnn previously If Ir the average car Is 18 taken Into consideration So much for tor the tho m mechanical end of the improvement ement After all with the excellence which has now been at attained nt- nt mechanically one of the tho big bib features of ot tho the car Is lt UK its appearance Cars of ot this year ear exemplify the trend tread in outline which has been apparent for the lue past four tour years cars 4 They aro are low Ion and straight lIne hH virg little about them which deviates from the horIzontal horizon- horizon tal lai line line |