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...jeep, a stubby, bouncy crossbreed between the half-ton command car and the motor tricycle, is as ugly as a bull pup. It has a wheelbase of only 80 in. (Ford V8: 114 in.) and a fourwheel drive that provides enormous traction for its 42-h.p. engine. It has no trouble pulling light field pieces, can skitter along a road at 60 m.p.h. Designed to replace motorcycles and sidecars for reconnaissance work, it can go anywhere a cycle can, and a lot of places a cycle can't. It can be used as a troop carrier (three men easily...
Last week, for the first time since 1908, auto dealers had for sale a six-cylinder Ford. Expected for months (TIME, Sept. 9), the six was not a new car, but a new engine in the V-8 body. It was priced at the old price of the V8, which was simultaneously raised...
Mercury, the Fords' newcomer, has 116-in. wheelbase, a crested, prow-cut hood front, with low, horizontal grille work, bird's-eye headlights in the fender fronts, a V8, 95-h. p. motor. Price: $934 Gadget: pinpoint pilot light for the ignition keyhole...
Cadillac has five 1938 lines: Cadillac Sixty, V8, Sixteen, Fleetwood, LaSalle. Only new motor is in the Sixteen, which has 1937's 185 h.p. but less weight and size. Fleetwood claims the world's roomiest body; Sixty has no running boards. All models have gear lever on the steering post, but shifting is not automatic...
...impending higher prices, off the assembly line in Flint, Mich, rolled the 13.ooo.oooth Chevrolet, just eleven months and two days after the 12,000.oooth. This was the second shortest million-unit period in the company's history. Two days later Ford Motor Co. turned out the i.ooo.oooth V8, 1937 model, built in the U. S. since production started last October. C. For the benefit of bankers and investment houses generally, and of their law- yers in particular, scholarly Director Harold H. Neff of the SEC's Division of Forms & Regulations last week made public a complete lesson...