FOUR-CYLINDER GARS.

Putaruru Press, Volume IV, Issue 137, 17 June 1926, Page 7

FOUR-CYLINDER GARS.

FAVOURED IN BRITAIN. Although six-cylinder cars have become the mosc popular in America, those with four cylinders arc still in larger demand' in Great Britain and on the Continent. In a table which gives the percentage of cars of different types exhibited at the Olympia Show the difference was quite evident. Actually, the relative demands for four cylinders and six cylinders in Great Britain are considerably more divergent than the table indicates, as nearly all of the sixcylinder cars exhibited were highpriced jobs such as Rolls-Royce, Lan-c-hester, Vauxhall, Ben ley, Sunbeam, and several others, while high-priced four-cylinder cars of Britisli manufacture were exceptional. In the table referred to it was shown that in four-cylinder cars of British make the percentage was 66.66, and while American firs showed only 17.14 per cent., those French manufacture were 77.19, r - 1 of Italian origin 50.00 per cent. I : the six-cylinder cars the American product led with 65.71 per cent., Bi: ish with 30.20 per cent., and French cars with 19.29 per cent. America showed also the largest number (on a percentage basis) of cars with eight cylinders being equal in number to those with four cylinders —l7 14 per cent. Italy’s quota of eight-cylinder cars was five per cent.. France’s 3.51 per cent., and those of Great Britain only 2.03 per cent. England was the only country to show cars with engines of two cylinders—l.o4 per cent., of the British cars shown.