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Show IMANY CHANGES I IN AUTO WORLD Technical Character of Motor Development Is Changing writer in the London Field make. the Interesting statement that the new molo' isi Is not of the same outlook or endowed with the same ideas as the; majority of pre war motorists. "Generally speaking,'' he says, "the popular American ear has a low com-, pression or a slow speed engine, and so is more aceepntnhle to this section of motorists than the smaller British' model with eO.ua power in a Bmaller 'compass. The result Is that the Bri-, ish manufai turer has shut him.srif oui j f rom a definite section of his own mar. get, ?nd a growing one It c;mnot bn I disputed that the technical character :and attitude of motorists are rhang ing The greater mass of recruits to the movement, so far as car owners are concerned -people who are not acutely interested In the technics of car construction and are not attracted by them They adopt the motor car because It is a convenient, or pleasur-' able, or fashionable form of convey ance. If they drive personally, the desire an easily handled, controlled and understood design if the; em-plo em-plo paid drivers they expect reliabll lty, comfort and a definite degree of economy in fuel and tire consumption "How any or all of those attributes are obtained does not greatlv arouse their interest. If they obtain what they pay for thev are satisfied; if they do not they are dissallfied and do not reinvest in the same car. They are not concerned that the designer has been merel too ambitious when he has failed, and that he could more easih have produced a commonplace and therefore reliable chassis. And even tho present-day technical enthu siast has his predictions tempered ap-preclabh ap-preclabh by the question of price. "We shall be surprised if these mat ters do not find some form of expression expres-sion in the designs that will be submitted sub-mitted to the public at the next Olym-plu Olym-plu show. No deliberately inefficient engine, of couvr.e, would be countenanced, counte-nanced, but something that requires less driving, loss constant supervision, and will permit a greater measure of what we shall call negligence for lac of a more precise term." |