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About The Sunday Oregonian. (Portland, Ore.) 1881-current | View Entire Issue (Jan. 16, 1916)
p si THE SUNDAY OREGOXIAX, PORTLAND, JANUARY 16, 1916. m $1375 at Detroit 7-Passenger Phaeton. Five Other Body Styles We Now Present the Patented by Hudson December 28, 1915 Patent No. 1165851 76 Horsepower an Added 80 Without Any Added Size The World9 s Record-Breaker (All records made by a 7-passenger touring car) Officially Breaking All Records on Stock Cars up to 100 Miles. Also All Stock Car Records for Quick Acceleration Under A. A. A. Supervision 100 miles in 80 minute; 21.4 seconds, averaging 74.67 miles per hoar, with driver and passenger. The previous beit stock car record of 72.49 was made by a car with more cylinders, more cylinder capacity and driver only. 75.69 miles in one hour with driver and passenger. ' During this trial speed laps were made at 76.75 miles per hour. 70.74 miles in one hour, carrying S passengers, with top and windshield up. The previous best record for stock car similarly equipped was made by a car with more cylinders, more cylinder capacity, and with only two passengers. From standing: start to SO miles an hour in 16.2 seconds. This record-making stock car was driven 13S0 miles at speed exceeding 70 miles per hoar without discoverable wear on any part. All these Hudson records were made with the same stock car, using the same motor, at Sheepshead Bay Speedway in No vember, under supervision of American Automobile Association. The most powerful motor per cubic inch displace', ment that the world has ever known. Mark what those records mean. No other stock car in history has equalled that per formance. No other like-size motor has ever devel oped such power. The Super-Six has proved itself the greatest en gine ever built. It has almost doubled the efficiency of Sixes. It has outrivaled Eights and Twelves, and ended every reason for those extra cylinders. It has brought to the Hudson unquestioned suprem acy. All must now concede it the sovereign car. For this marvel motor is a Hudson patent, found in Hudson cars alone. 80 PER CENT MORE POWER The Super-Six is not a mere refinement. It em bodies a basic invention. And it so excels all pre vious creations that it makes of this an epoch making car. The best former Sixes in this size developed at maximum 42 horsepower. The Super-Six develops 76 horsepower. That means an increase of 80 per cent. - In high motor speed capacity, the Super-Six ex cels the best former Sixes by 50 per cent Note those immense advances in the features most desired." Then note we attain them without adding size. The" Super-Six, in cylinder size, is identical with the Hudson Six-40. We- do not forfeit light ness or economy. And we do not add more cylin ders, with their extra complications. ABSOLUTE SMOOTHNESS " All this is accomplished through ending vibration, a motor's major foe. We have built a motor so quiet, so free from vibration, that it can revolve at marvelous speed. And at highest speed a pencil stood on end on the engine doesn't topple over. Thus we attain with a small motor 76 horsepower a power that was never reached before, save with motors big and heavy. We have attained the pinnacle at which engi neers have aimed. It was to save vibration that they built the Six. Then, to save more, they built the Light Six with small bore. - The next step was V-type Eights and Twelves-designcd to still further reduce the vibration. . '' Now all those types, in this chief respect, have : been far outrivaled by the Super-Six. All that was sought for in Eights and Twelves lack of vibration, smoothly-flowing power is far better attained in the Super-Six. The result is vast saving in tires, in engine wear and fuel. . . ; , HOW 76 HORSEPOWER "But how," you ask, "do you get this 76 horse power, and what does it mean?" It means vast reserve power for hard roads and for hills. It means ability to creep oh high gear, to pick up with record quickness, to avoid changing gears. ' That extra power comes through lack of vibration. That means a .long-lived motor. It means bird-like motion at any speed. The Super-Six is so quiet that the car seems to move by magic. It means economy of fuel. And that extra power that, added 80 per cent comes without adding cylinders or size. You don't want a motor about half as efficient when a same size motor performs like the Super-Six. Vibration is lost effort, which means inefficiency. By wiping it out we have gained super-efficiency. HUDSON NOW SUPREME This patented motor gives to Hudson the top in Motordom. No man who knows can dispute it. With so great a difference, it is bound to supersede the best other types in existence. That is why we stopped production on the former Hudson at the zenith of our success. That car the Six-40 had won a new empire for us. It had quad rupled our sales in two years. But we quit it when the Super-Six, proved nearly twice better. And we lost about 5000 sales as a consequence. Then we doubled our factory at a cost of $1,500, 000. Then we bought materials for $42,000,000 worth of these new cars this season. For all the de mand for the Super-Six must be supplied by Hudson. Any fine car buyer who knows the facts is bound to choose the Super-Six. No other car at any price rl. can match it in performance. And the best Six ..built in former types is hardly one-half so efficient. , .The facts will also win thousands from lower priced cars to the Hudson. The difference in value so far exceeds the difference in price that any man can see it. And the saving in fuel, in tires and in wear on the motor, will wipe out the extra cost. Consider the excessive strains of that Speedway test. A motor which stood them is impervious to ordinary service strains, and capable of any requirement, MOST LUXURIOUS CARS With the new Hudson bodies, this car looks its supremacy. In every detail, regardless of the cost, we've attained luxury's limit All that we save by a doubled production has gone into these new bodies. Entirely new lines are adopted. The room is increased. A rare grade of grain leather is used in the upholstery. The finish is superb. An extra cowl, rounded and finished, is built in front of the tonneau. The windshield is slanted. You will find in these cars all the beauty and lux ury that extravagance could buy. Down to the small est details there is no way to excel them. Our price for such luxury is due to the fact that we have the largest fine car output in the world. Thus we announce to you the premier achieve ment in all the history of motor car building. And the most interesting car of the year. Come and see it 7-Passenger Phaeton, $1375, f. o. b. Detroit Five Other Styles of Bodies: Roadster, Cabriolet, , Touring Sedan, Limousine and Town Car UDSON MOTOR CAR COMPANY, DETROIT, MICH. G. L, BOSS & CO. 615 -617 Washington Street M. K. XrlMa. Atorla, Or. -Unite ileox Oalltfcard A Milnn Halter, Or. I). R. Parker, Condon, Or. J. It.. Yatea Aoto Co.. Kngeae, Or. V m. Kyle Jfc Sen, r'toratce, Or. K. K. Mnlmen. (Ueawood. Man. Oo. (iorhaiu, ' llarrigliurK. Or, 'Albert Boevker, Meupner, Or. J. H. Martin, Klamath Kalla. Or. . Smith l Porter. Oregon City, Or. McIU-ll Uelnno, Pendleton, Or. Portland, Oregon A. I. Kaff. Unl.m. Or. J. U. Moore, Walla Walla. Wuh. J. H. KaaeburK, Waaco, Or. ipi 11 IK WW 1