Evening star., 1927-11-20
ALL-AROUND CAR EFFICIENCY
MAKES WINTER DRIVING EASY
Motoring During Cold Months Is Now
Simple Matter, With Many Auto
Perfections.

1t was not so many years ago that
automobiles, relatively speaking, were
! tucked away in moth balls when the
first signs of Winter appeared. How
different today Motoring during the
cold months may not he the utterly
simple, pleasant process it is during
other seasons of the year, but very
few owners think of storing the car
on this score. The reason, obviously,
is that motor transportation has be
come an all-year essential. The manu-.
facturer made this possible when he
eliminate ted so per cent of the hard
ship of Winter motor operation by
providing cars of an amazing all
around efficiency.
Winter use of the car not only is
possible but also profitable and, in
many ways. pleasant, but to make 1t
so the individual must look certain
conditions squarely in the face and
consider the ways in which they may
be overcome most thoroughly and eff
fectively.
Greater Hardships.
OF course. Winter weather imposes
greater hardships upon both driver
and car. but only the most fearful
person looks upon these as insur-
mountable. AS compared with the diff
ficulties of a decade ago, they are
nothing.
A backward glance reveals that not
so long ago Winter driving involved
nNmbness from the cold. Stffened fin
gers steered the car with difficulty and
with hazardous lack of precision.
Ones foot shivered on the accelerator,
giving the car a fitful, uneven gait
Pressure on the brake was rendered
unstable for the same reason. But,
the motor car maker provided an
answer in the form of the closed car.
Today, one drives an automobile whose
air-tight windows bar the bitter, bit
ing winds as effectively as the Win
dows of his own home. In thousands
of cases this car is heated and its oc-
cupants are as snug as If sitting in
their own homes.
incidentally, any of the closed cars
of today that are not factory.equipp
with heaters do not necessarily have
to be without these efficient devices. A
wide variety of products of this char
acter is available.
The man with the open car GER
tainly has passed the stage when he
need feel out of things merely because
it is Winter. If he does not have
glass windows to keep out the chilly
breeZes, he at least has curtains that
open and close with the doors and fit
so tightly that only the most agile of
wind currents can gain admission to
the interior of the car.
Warm Dress Needed.
Driving an open car throughout the
Winter merely is a matter of dressing
warmly and making use of the various
appurtenances that have been built
into the car. OF the features of many
open models that contribute immeasur-
ably to the comfort of the driver and
other occupants are the wind wings,
which defect the wind which formerly
found its way into the driving com.
partment around the windshield.
Except for the difference in body,
the open car owner has an automobile
identical with all others. His machine
has the same safety, the same per-
formance and Identical efficiency in all
ways
Truly astonishing strides have been
taken by automobile designers in over
coming two others of Winters great
est motoring handicaps--lack of trac.
ton and poor visibility.
The balloon tire, standard every
where today, is a road gripper Of ex.