The motor-car trade has been i few weeks cally all well-known ears, the reduc. tions ranging anywhere from $25 to $930. would appear that. every effort is being made to brin into the fold every adult in the! United States who does not own a car, and if sales go on as they but gol ing that will soon be an fai accompli, for from the price standpoint there is little excuse for man not owning a car nowadays. Present reductions in new cars are only the "broadsiding" to the consumer of the factory production. Economies in selling are notice able in the new prices. Mergers are the order of the day. The small manufacturers are being eréwded out, as they cannot stand against the enormous corporations, and dealers also are decreasing in number. Wherever one looks in the industry he finds ce-ordination of interests, and radical changes will continue throughout the year through combinations in both manufacturing and firfancing. Coach bodies that is, the closed car, which one used to pay about fifteen hundred taels more for during my time in Shanghai are now claimed to cost even less than the touring body.
There can be no doubt that the 1926 models, which are now nearly all on show, will be little more that half the cest of the same car less than ten years ago.
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