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NEW McLAUGHLIN, BUICK 1932 CARS TO APPEAR SOON
“WIZARD CONTROL” MODELS WILL BE PRESENTED BEFORE END OF WEEK
[The Welland-Port Colborne Evening Tribune, 11 November 1931]
New McLaughlin-Buick models for 1932, apparently fulfilling in every way their maker’s famous pledge about better cars, will be presented to the public before the end of the week. The event is considered important not only because of the lead that is given to the automotive parade of 1932 and consequent industrial activity, but also because of the engineering advances scored by the popular McLaughlin Buick valve-in-head Straight Eights.
In the 1932 McLauglin-Buicks, the distinguishing name of “Wizard Control” has been given to the mechanical evolution achieved with an automatic power-operated clutch combined with improved free-wheeling and the already famous silent-second synchro-mesh transmission. Wizard Control embodies principles never before employed in automative engineering.
A touch of the foot on a floor-button makes possible the shifting of gears without the use of the clutch pedal, and when you are “away” the release of the accelerator gives you free-wheeling. But the moment the foot is removed from the button, or the accelerator depressed again, the clutch will engage smoothly either operation making positive connection with the engine. The conventional clutch pedal is there, all the time, but if need not be used unless the driver desires.
From all the opinions on its general appearance, McLaughlin-Buick has produced this year the handsomest cars in history. From the radiator, flanked by dual trumpet-shaped horns, to the dual tail lamps every line is new.
Among the two-score advancements claimed for the new McLaughlin-Buick is an efficicent easily operated “ride regulator.” Shock absorbers are equipped with metering valves which may be adjusted by a steering column lever, permitting a driver, while his car is in motion, to adjust for roads of any kind.
The McLaughlin-Buicks are again grouped in four Series-the “50” the “60” the “80” and the “90”. There are 34 smart freshly-styled models. Entirely new are a Brougham, three special all weather phaetons, 5-passenger coupes on all wheelbases; and new convertible coupes and special sedans on all wheelbases. The wheelbases by the way have been increased in the “80” “90” series, from 124 to 126 and from 132 to 134 inches respectively.
And that is hardly half the story. One might mention the new instrument board and steering wheel, the improved carburetor ending surging and “vapor lock;” or the improved oil temperature regulator.
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