Regarding the so-called popular car resolving itself into a general type, as to horse power, price, &c., it is our opinion that cars will be largely divided into two classes—the light runabout type, which is sold at a price to meet the popular demand, and the high-priced, high-powered car combining every detail of workmanship, design, and finish that has and which will always meet the ready sale of the wealthier class of motorists.

With reference to the six-cyliinder car, we feel sure that it has come to stay. It has every mechanical reason for its existence, and there is no reason why the power cannot be thus divided, so that it may be applied to the small car as well as the large car. It is a well-known fact that a car equipped with a six-cylinder engine is far easier upon the entire mechanism, as the impulses overlap each other, making it much more flexible, and tests have shown it to be really as economical as the four-cylinder type. We believe there will be very few radical changes in the general type.

The commercial vehicle is more or less in the experimental stage as yet. The manufacturers of commercial cars have a harder struggle than anticipated in securing a foothold, owing to the fact that commercial vehicles have been placed on the market at a time when the pleasure car was more or less in an experimental stage and the owners of pleasure cars, who are usually men who would be interested in commercial vehicles, have been somewhat conservative in investing in commercial vehicles as a business proposition, having in mind the troubles they may have experienced with their own pleasure vehicles. We think there is no question that within a very few years the commercial vehicle will be an acknowledged solution of the transportation problem, not only in cities, but in rural districts as well, and the production of commercial vehicles is the cornerstone of the foundation on which the future of the industry rests.

As for the outlook for 1908, we believe that it will prove most satisfactory to the majority of the manufacturers. They will profit by the mistakes of overproduction in the last season, and sales will be conducted upon sounder lines than heretofore.