NEW ENGLISH CARS.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVII, Issue 237, 6 October 1936, Page 18

NEW ENGLISH CARS.

IMPROVEMENT IN DETAILS. 1 A review of the English cars for next year states that outwardly there is 110 great change. The small car is still to predominate, and the technical details suggest robustness with reliability. Due to aeronautical practice, there will be increased power output without appreciable increase in weight. The power-to-weight factor shows extraordinary progress, the power, of course, being dbtained from increased revolutions of the crankshaft. There is an entailed disadvantage, however, for these small engines highly efficient at speed entail a good deal of gearshifting in traffic to pick up the revolutions after checks in traffic. They do not pick up quickly without the changes being made. The overcoming of this is I one of the points in which the small I high-speed engine has to make progress.' Considerable attention has been given, to springing, and the new cars will ride I more smoothly than ,their predecessors. | Brakes, too, are more efficient. Adjust-1 able steering wheels—the column head being able to slide a few inches—is a, common feature, and seats are being made to conform with the human figure, lessening fatigue. Further, the front seats can be altered as to tilt as well as being able to slide backwards and forwards. Narrower body pillars allow of better vision.