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WHAT ABout Your AUTOMOBILE?
DID YOU COMPARE IT WITH THE 1932 BUICK?
ARE YOU SATISFIED WITH LESS?
Can you raunt upon 200,000 miles and more of fine, dependable performance, proving that your motor car has a twenty-eight year record of just such performance-ability?
Can you motor with perfect peace of mind, knowing that an adequate parts and service organization reinforces your car's reliability?
Can you obtain these advantages, plus-Wizard Control, Automatic Clutch, Advanced Free Wheeling. Silent Second, Syncro Mesh Shifting. Ride Regulator, etc. with twenty-six Juxurious Fisher Body types to choose from, assuring exactly the mode! you need?
YOU CAN-IN THE 1932 BUICK
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MOTORING AND MOTORS.
SATURDAY, MARCH 19, 1932.
most of as imagine, and that the maa or woman of experience who choosen a certain type of car | mainly because It [k`comfortably equipped, without paying mach Which is the Best Sort the ignoramus we should have attention to engine design, is not thought him a few years ago. The "works" of most care certainly For all makes with a name to lose can be rolled upon to do their job TWELVE VITAL POINTS.Properly for at least a couple of
of Car?
years or over between 20,000 and 40,000 miles. It is only now and then that you find coachwork in which you can expect to sit with distance. any degree of comfort over a long
The Twelve Points.
(By John Prioleau) The Hillman Motor Company Ltd., have announced a competi- tion In which the prizes Ca "Wizard" and a "Minx" Hillman) What is really the beat sort of are awarded to those two compe- car for most people? Let us tors who most nearly arrive at assume, for the moment, that the the combined opinion of the qualities of engine in its general "Wizard" 20-k.p. Six held by Mre.granted, that it is well up to its design at least can be taken for Victor Bruce, Sir Malcolm Camp-
satisfactorily smooth-run- work; bell, and Sir Henry Birkin. Thoaoning: "clean" which means that will allot marks, each according it does not need decarbonising too to their own predilections, to such petrol; and does not want valve- often; economien fn of and matters as 'acceleration, body-lappot adjustment more often than comfort, braking, finish, and so usual. With thi nssurance forth, and the results will be would act up the following twelve deposited, serled, with the com-points in their order of merit. 'pány's, bankers until judging time. It seems to me a form of publicity which should prove singularly in structive to the makers of the car if every entry form is read, ir- respective of whether it is within one or within ten thousand points of the necessary total. Granted
absence of draught as well as ad- 疆 representative number of mianion of fresh air; tenth, clear
First, auspension and road- holding; second steering: third, brakes; fourth, ense of gear- change; Bfth quietness of Inter- mediate gears; sixth, head room; (you can, oddly enough, learn to endure cramped legs more quickly than conpressed elbows and ribs); ninth, ventilation, which means
opinions, the Hitman Company vialon, particularly rearwards: will have at their disposal the eleventh, ease of entrance and
candid views of a very large nur-exit; twelfth, comfort and depth ber of customers, potential or of upholstery, actual. I should imagine that the occasion is unique,
As we all know, that buyer's opinion does not always coincide with that of the manufacturer, though it is obvious that it should. The latter's object in business is to build and sell to the largest possible number of people the exnet type of car these believe to
None of these, you would say, was an impossible standard, by which I mean that
could reasonably expect a good proper- tion of marks for each one in any modern car; yet I can remember very few cars I have tried since, ct, is any, the war. in which all Numbers one to five are quite com- these twelve
get their due share. monly well-marked to-day, even in cara, costing much less the 1 £200,
pious
be the best suited to their pur- but six, seven, nine, ten and eleven poses, and he is and always haaseldom get a "pass-especially been handicapped by Inevitableoleven. What exactly lies at the ignorance, It only a comparative back of the mind of the designer,
who, "year by year, in ly small number of cases is he patience." makes it more and more told what his customera really difficult for his customers to get think-sometimes to his satisfac- into and out of his carriages? tion, sometimes to his humiliation. Price or claims to luxury have He never knowa,
no bearing on it. I have gone what, as a whole, they like and through the same contortions
entering and leaving
a £2,000 what they dislike about his cars.
saloon and the £135 light ear with a wheelbase some four feet shorter.
of
at first hand,
How does the average man judge the points and general value a modern ear? Does the mechanical or the coachwork part interest him most? Is it really true, as I have been assured many times, especially lately, that cars are sold to-day mainly on the com- fort of their bodies? I am in clined to think that this factor has a far greater influence than
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Do my twelve points constitute fresh air or Inne your essential Our new cars, particularly these an excessive demand? I cannot alertness: you must see an much bullt at home, are astonishingly think so. If your car is not well as possible behind you. It la not good in most respects. We have it is neither comfortable for parshould be able to get into and out nations in the designing of cars sprung and "dthers" on corners, of vital Importance that you not very much to learn from other ticularly anfc. Steering And
brakes must naturally be of the of the car casily, but I do not for our own purposes, but I think need be re- we have at something to learn sort you do not think about, and think the business
garded as a luxury, any more from our inarticulate selves. We the drive, which means the clutch
than pneumatic upholstery. If are ton easily pleased or, if you and gear-box together, be un-you sit uncomfortably you get like, we are too lazy. We put up obtrusive. You must have room tired very quickly, and when you with the second-rate in certain in the three main directions, are tired you are within measur- things when the first-rate could along, across, and up (most able distance of the border-line of be had for the same money. speecially up); you must breathe dangerous driving.
very un-British characteristic.
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