All trendy shock absorbers are velocity-sensitive — the quicker the suspension strikes, the extra resistance the shock absorber offers. This enables shocks to adjust to street circumstances and to control the entire unwanted motions that may occur in a shifting automobile, including bounce, sway, brake dive and acceleration squat.

The 1956 Studebaker Hawk had no fewer than 4 variations: Flight Hawk, Energy Hawk, Sky Hawk, local anesthesia and Golden Hawk in ascending order of value, power, and plush. The lower-line Flight and Energy Hawks employed the Starlight coupe body shell, and the higher-level Sky and Golden Hawks used the hardtop shell of the unique Starliner.

Packard lost $7 million in 1932, much of it on the sunshine Eight, so company president Alvan Macauley started searching the ranks of GM executives for somebody sensible in the ways of volume manufacturing who might assist the agency develop a worthwhile center-priced automobile. Ironically, the firm netted $500,000 with 1933 sales that amounted to 38 % of the high-priced market — effectively above Cadillac’s share. Bother was, the excessive-priced market was just about gone.