JAPANESE PROGRESS
HEW 65 H.P. .MACHINE With the news of tho approaching completion of the Ford and General Motors assembly plants in Japan, come tidings of. renewed activity in Japan’s not so far successful home motor industry. Making a new bid for supremacy; in the - domestic market, and a greater share of the world car market, the two - leading Japanese makes, Toyoda and Datsmi, nave announced new models. Obviously modelled on Chrysler machines, the Toyoda is a 3.3 litres, six cylinder , effort, with ovei-head valves. It develops 65 brake, horsepower at 3,000 r.p.m. The.Datsuii is a midget machine, whose mechanical design is strangely similar to that of the Austin Seven. It is hoped to market this car in some quantity in Australia.
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Evening Star, Issue 22573, 15 February 1937, Page 15
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