October, 1923 
99 
PAC K ARD 
SINGLE-'SIX 
It has to be a pretty good Yankee 
car that can overcome my initial 
prejudice; but when after doing that 
it contrives to fill me with an un' 
controllable lust for possession, then 
I can assure you it is something 
right out of the common rut. 
The Single'Six Packard costs (in 
England) something under nine 
hundred pounds, and is, in my 
humble opinion, as near being the 
very best car in the world as makes 
no difference. This is heavy praise, 
I know, but it can’t be helped—I 
must speak as I find. 
If I had leisure and one of these 
cars, I would like to drive it round 
Coventry and Birmingham and 
Manchester, and other places where 
motors are mostly made, and take 
British managing directors out for 
a run, just to show them, you 
understand. 
The plain fact is that this is a car 
in which I simply cannot find a fault. 
It is as docile as an angel, but goes 
like the very devil. It is supremely 
well sprung, it is uncannily silent, 
it is a miser on petrol, it steers no 
heavier than a wisp of cigarette 
smoke, it climbs like a chamois— 
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in short, it just does anything that 
it should, and does most things a 
good deal better than you would 
think possible. 
Mind you it is not one of these 
undergeared contraptions, for with¬ 
out any fuss or flurry it will do its 
modest seventy on the level, nor 
has it got a huge engine, yet it will 
do White Hill, Henley, with four 
up, at a minimum of twenty-five 
miles an hour. The Hindhead brings 
it down to about fift y-five! The 
Single-Six is, of course, not to be 
confused with the Twin-Six. 
Yes, believe me, people, the six- 
cylinder Packard is a very wonder¬ 
ful car indeed. I wish it were 
made in this country, and I can’t 
for the life of me see why it 
shouldn’t be, though owing to the 
higher cost of raw material over 
here it would naturally come out 
more expensive. 
I heartily wish the Packard were 
British. 
It is easily amongst the first half- 
do2ien best cars in the world, at a 
figure which has hitherto been 
associated with, comparatively 
speaking, mediocrity. 
—Reprinted from The Toiler, London, 
England; issue of April 11, 1923 
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