Word: roomier
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...race President Coyle entered two lines of Chevrolets, the Standard and Master De Luxe. The Masters have "knee-action" front wheels, new all-steel "turret" tops by Fisher Bodies, are longer, roomier, more streamlined. The Standards have conventional springs, conventional steel bodies. But while the Masters are priced at last year's levels, the Standards have been cut $10 on almost all models, putting them as much as $25 below Ford's standard line. In the past year Chevrolet sold about 100,000 of the lower-priced Standards, will push them strongly in 1935 as a good transportation...
Plymouth this year eliminated its lower-priced line to concentrate on the longer wheelbase. It abandoned independent front wheel springing but developed a new type of spring steel and, like Ford, moved the motor forward to improve the ride. Bodies are longer, roomier and pleasantly bulbous. Refinements in the motor are claimed to have increased economy...
...Automobile is longer, roomier, sleeker, faster and, with a few exceptions, it is more expensive (5% to 10% above last year). Nearly every model has felt the hand of the aerodynamics engineer. The mechanical benefits of streamlining-higher speed (against reduced air resistance) at less cost-have led every motormaker directly to the practical problem of increased riding comfort. The new streamlined car had to offer smoother transportation at 70 m.p.h. than the old high-bodied model did at 50 m.p.h. This necessity resulted in the major mechanical innovation of the year-independent front wheel suspension. Heretofore front springs...
Prices of popular British cars average ?10 ($45) higher at the Show this year than last, with roomier bodies and self-changing gears as the excuse for upping. Still supreme was the stately Daimler, picked as the King-Emperor's personal equipage by Edward VII and used exclusively by George V. Ready for the road a Daimler "Double-Six" weighs over three tons, costs over $8,500, represents the supreme peacetime achievement of its militant makers the B. S. A. (Birmingham Small Arms) munitions trust (Lee-Enfield rifles) who also make popular priced cars called simply...
...Buicks, longer and roomier, showed what .has been done since last May by the new manufacturing chief, I. J. Reuter, once with Opel. An automatic clutch and Startex (starter automatic with ignition switch) are standard equipment. Large doors opening flush with the running board add to the low appearance...