The 14 Vauxhall
Few of the popular cars with which one has been familiar over several years have undergone so great a change between one year and the next as the 14 Vauxhall. Its engine is the same size as before, a 6-cylinder 1,781 c.c. taxed at to guineas, and no doubt it has been improved in detail. The carburettor, for instance, is of a new design, and in other points alterations have been made to account for the change. The gear-box has now only three forward speeds, and this Vauxhall is, in my opinion, one of the very few cars of this power weighing over a ton, which does not lose by the lack of an intermediate third. They have reduced the weight by one cwt. to 22 cwt., but even that is not enough to account for. an increase in maximum speed of six or seven miles an hour and an all-round increase in acceleration. Or is it? One knows what an extraordinary difference even a moderate extra weight makes to the per- formance of the medium-powered car, those suit-cases, that extra passenger seem often enough to account for a couple of horsepower. A hundredweight does not sound much to the owner of a 20 or 3o h.p. car, but it feels a lot more to the owner of the to, the 12 and the 14.
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