Car expected to be about same size, but definitely lower than today's vehicles; weight will be increased slight amount; numerous power accessories will be used; performance will be greatly improved by larger engines operating at higher peak speeds, with compression ratios up to 12 or more, and requiring 100 plus octane fuel; there will be more automatic transmissions of improved design; gas turbines and free piston engines are at least 5 yr away for automobiles.
Automobiles of future
Soc Automotive Engrs -- Paper
Society of Automotive Engineers -- Meeting ; 1956
1956
4 pages
Conference paper
English
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