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Show ! AUTOMOBILE TREND IS -10 EIGHTLQYLINDERS Style and Beauty of New Cars Have Advanced Remarkably Remark-ably the Past Year. In the automobile shows this year are seen several important developments. Style and beauty of cars have advanced remarkably. Lines are trimmer despite the fact that the cars have actually more passenger room. To attain this pleasing trimness while materially enlarging passenger space is no small accomplishment in design. A highly important trend is the growth of the eight-cylinder car in the moderate price field. Modern Mod-ern traffic has brought about this development, because of all motors the eight best accomplishes an extreme ex-treme range of performance. The motorist wants flexibility, and he wants it, not in additional gears to shift, but in the motor itself, so that to alter his pace he simply steps on the gas or eases up. The eight meets that demand. Eight Cylinder Trend A few years ago it was customary custo-mary to associate eights exclusively exclusive-ly with cars of the most expensive type. One of the outstanding achievements ach-ievements at the shows this year is the adaptation of the eight-cylinder eight-cylinder principle of engine design de-sign in the moderate price field. The opinion is held that the future fu-ture will see this trend further accentuated ac-centuated and eights will be unusually un-usually popular in the moderate price class. Engineers know now, and the public is learning, that the straight eight is an excellent engine, having hav-ing numerous and conspicuous advantages ad-vantages over four or six cylinder engines of the same cubical displacement. dis-placement. Its power output for the same displace over these engines en-gines is considerably better. For instance, a four cylinder motor ol around 200 cubic inches capacity has a possible power output of 45 horse-power, a six of the same displacement has 63 horse-power, and an eight, 80 horse-power. This is true because the stresses due to the moving parts are nearly 33 per cent less in an eight than in a six and nearly 100 per cent less than in a four. These facts are inherent in-herent in design. Consequently the straight-eight engine is able to outperform either a four or a six of the same displacement by a wide margin, and to do it with smaller bore cylinder and lighter moving parts. To the driver this means flexibility, reliability and long engine life. The eight cylinder engine assures as-sures increased flexibility because of its abundant supply of reserve power. Consequently less gear shifting is necessary either in traffic traf-fic or in moderately heavy pulls. On the straightaways its smooth- ness at high speeds provides an unusual sense of comfort for driver dri-ver and occupants. Beauty of Design Good taste, single motif art design, de-sign, harmony in upholstery, appointments ap-pointments and fittings, variety of colors to please individual choice, available in an unusual array of body types, has been an achievement achieve-ment of no little moment in the moderate price field. It will undoubtedly un-doubtedly find hearty response and approval from the most critical clientele. These pleasing features combined combin-ed with roomy bodies, designed according ac-cording to the most advanced structural steel engineering principles, prin-ciples, and mounted on chassis of ample wheel base, all show the consideration, thought and strides that have taken place to produce an automobile of beauty, style, distinction, comfort, safety and performance qualities of distinction dis-tinction recently available only in the most luxurious and costliest type of cars. An attractive body design is as economical to manufacture as an ugly or mediocre one the difference dif-ference is simply in the designer's design-er's ability. This is true both as to the basic lines of the car and to the beauty of the interior. In the low priced field it is now possible pos-sible for the motorist to find really real-ly remarkable standards of unity, beauty and taste, if he simply will continue his search until he finds what he wants. He will find, as in home decorations, that his wife's influence has opened to him standards stan-dards of attractiveness unknown . only a few years ago. |