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MARQUETTE MAKES ITS BOW TO PUBLIC SATURDAY, JUNE 1
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MARQUETTE MAKES ITS BOW TO PUBLIC SATURDAY, JUNE 1
The Ludington Daily News
May 24, 1929
New Six-Cylinder Car Produced by Buick Motor Co. Is Given Gruelling Tests.
The Marquette, the new six-cylinder car produced by the Buick Motor company, will be offered to the public for the first time on Saturday, June 1; by approximately 4,000 Buick dealers.
This new car is a tangible evidence that the field of automotive engineering is a dynamic one, constantly striving to produce better transportation, to reduce owner operating costs and to create new standards of performance, speed and beauty.
Marquette Stands Tests.
During the long months of development, Marquette cars have been driven over hundreds of thousands of miles in all kinds of weather to test the car's performance.
The General Motors proving ground presenting all sorts of rough and smooth roads with all kinds of driving conditions—concrete, macadam, gravel, dirt, hills, curves and straightaways—was the scene of grueling tests that prove the Marquette a car of brilliant performance.
A five-passenger, four-door sedan carrying a total load of 450 pounds, was used to test the Marquette's hill climb ability. This car was driven over a hill 1,400 feet long—the hill presenting a climb more severe than the average cross-country motorist ordinarily encounters in a full season's driving.
The driver, under the supervision of the engineers, approached the foot of this grade at a speed of five miles per hour.
As the hill was actually encountered the engine was accelerated and, with a surge of power, the car swept upward at a rapidly increasing speed. As it crossed the summit of the grade, 1,400 feet from the bottom, the car was going 25 miles per hour and steadily picking up.
Has Quick Acceleration.
Further tests prove that the Marquette has quick get-away, flashing speed and rugged power. Under actual tests the car has consistently accelerated on a straight-away from five to 25 miles per hou rin 8.8 seconds; from 10 miles per hour to 25 miles per hour in 6.3 seconds; from 10 to 40 miles per hour in 13.4 seconds and from 10 to 60 miles per hour in 31 seconds.
The results of these tests, together with a proven road speed well in the seventies, Buick officials say, create new standards of performance in a car of the weight and class of the Marquette.
Although priced within the reach of millions, only the finest proven materials have gone into the construction of this new car which is built to share in the prestige the Buick Motor company has been accorded for the last quarter of a century.
