Jasper County Democrat, Volume 17, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 May 1914 — The Ford Car Not a Luxury. [ARTICLE]

The Ford Car Not a Luxury.

J- troit. Mich., April 30.—T0 the man inclined to believe that motor car travel is still somewhat of a luxury, figures recently secured from more than three hundred owners in ‘ leveland, showing conclusively that it costs on the average a cent and a half a mile to drive one well known type of car in that city, hould prove interesting At present there are more than iieen hundred owners of Ford cars iu Cleveland. Of this number three hundred had owned their cars an average of nine and a half months, and had kept careful and complete record of the cost entailed. Kach of the three hundred and seventeen owners hau driven his car an average distance of five thousand two hundred seventythree miles. Each had carried a load of approximately four hundred forty-four pounds (three persons) the entire distance. It costs an average of $55.02 for gasoline per car for the nine and one-half months service. The average expense for .... ricating oil during the same period was $6.28. The average cost of repair per car for; the entire period of operation was 318.19. < In wear on tires, the shoes of a car, this particular car showed exceptionally economical. The average; life of a set of tires was five thous-i and two hundred fifty-three miles. . ! The data from which these fig-* l ures were taken is on file at the , eveland'branch of the Ford Motor Company where it may be inspected ; by any doubting Thomas. The data concerning each car is in writing over the owner’s signature. from these figures it appears, that it is about as inexpensive to owp and drive this tvpe of car as it is to walk and wear out shoe leather, to say nothing of the time saved and distances shortened. W. ]. Hoover, agent for Ford cars, Rensselaer, Ind - - -- 1