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Show Post -War Autos Will Be Better, but Not 'Fantastic' Those fantastic dreams of teardrop, tear-drop, rear-engine cars made of "super" "su-per" material:! with curved glass tops and plastic bodies, belong to tho next deende. 'Hull's the opinion of rielmar G. Itoua, a vice president of Willys-Overland Motors. It'ios, who is credited wllh designing design-ing the hard-hilling Jeep, cited these points as an "engineer's approach" to post-war antomohile design: (1) There will lie a demand fur more efficient vehicles at lower Initial Ini-tial cost. Tills will mean lighter cars, hut not necessarily smaller. (2) Radical changes will bo slow In coming, CI) A11I0 inaiiuraetiirers are not willing In gamble their reputation on "futiinslic" models which ean'l inert the hard test of public use. ('! Plastic bodies and rui'vril glass mil-fares, In tlirir present form, nrr unsalisfarlory; the bodies have none of the advantages of sle.?l, while the plastic glass as now developed de-veloped presents n dangerous hnn- dicap to clear vision. (R) The next, great mechanical advance ad-vance in the Industry will probably be the perfection of senil-iiutoinatlc anil automatic transmissions in n simple and Inexpensive form. However, How-ever, II Is not expected lo entirely replace the conventional hand shift j system for several years. ('(iinl'nrt nf Limousines. |
