The Indianapolis times., 1925-01-06
FEWER MACHINES
ON DISPLAY AT
new YORK SHOW
Big Auto Makers Build Little
Cars Small Ones Try
Large Type.

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BIZ Times Special
NEW YORK, Jan. 6.-The Ma
tional Automobile Show which last
year burst the buttons off its old
quarters and was measured for ac-
commodations in the Armory of the
25sth Field Artillery. the largest hall
under one roof in the United States,
has come to the Armory again but
1t has dwindled much in year.
There are only flfty-four varieties
in the Armory this year compared
to eighty-six kinds in 1924. And
these makers who remain in the
trade now that it is narrowing down
to a struggle of giants appear to be
training for battle royal in which
the customer will get most OF the
enjoyment.
Although I never saw you be-
fore, tell you as a friend, don't buy
a Clattercar Six justsyet, if ever" :"
a salesman warns you at the exhibit
Skis closest rival
WATT" Says Salesman
II you must buy one, wait Wait
until the first of March, because they
are going to cut the price 1885 on
closed models and $155.3S on the
open jobs. We came to the show
clean, we did. We cut our price be-
fore the exhibition started"
Gracefully resting his elbow on
the cleaning window sill Of a red
ard-blue sedan made by Packard,
sales gent1han called attention to
the fact that this cars price had
been not only cut, but positively
gashed. from $1,000 to $2.SS3. just
lately, and why?
Because" he said, ''our firm de-
cided to give the Hupp and some of
these other new eights a little COM
petition. Others will have to cut,
too. The customers will get the fun
Of it. If you're going to- buy car
now, would you buy a machine that
has never been on the market before,
such as one Of these new Fights, at
a top price, in preference to Pack
ard at the reduced price?'
The manufacturers Of cheap or
moderate-priced machines have be-
come ambitious: the big fellows dem
ocratic.
The Hupmobile, heretofore a four
cylinder brand. has brought out an
eight. while maintaining the four;
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chine: so have the Gardner, the FL
car, the Auburn, Apperson and the
Kissel The Overland and WHY'S
Knight, four-cylinder machines in
the past, have added six-cylinder
models.
Big Ones Smaller
On the other hand, the majestic
Locomobile. formerly affected by the
Morgans, the Charlie Chaplins and
other money monarchs of the land,
has produced six-cylinder machine
and the Pierce Arrow, not to be out
kneeled in this STOPPING to the re-
quirements of the great middle class,
has brought out g little six Pierce
Arrow.
No manufacturer has yet brought
a seven or a six and three-eighths,
but some one might, If given time.
There is no little outward differ
ence between last years machines
and the new ones Even those which
increased their engine plants from
four cylinders to eight seem no
larger. The balloon tires are stand
ard equipment on more cars this
year and so are four-wheel brakes,
either hydraulic or mechanical, but
the only sharp change in the out
ward appearances of machines is in
the color schemes or the shapes of
the radiators, which latter have been
given new slant or curve in some
cases to make the 1924 machines
look decIasse.