Packard's Six badge once meant top-tier luxury — by the 115-C it had been repositioned as an affordable family car, going up against the Oldsmobile L-Series and DeSoto's sixes.
Lead trim: Six 115-C 237 cu in L-head (3,884 cc)
Packard Six115-C · 1937–1942
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FactPackard's Six badge once meant top-tier luxury — by the 115-C it had been repositioned as an affordable family car, going up against the Oldsmobile L-Series and DeSoto's sixes.
Packard reintroduced a six-cylinder model as the Fifteenth Series Six Model 115-C, a lower-priced companion to the One-Twenty, for 1937 to 1942, using a 237 cu in (3,884 cc) L-head engine and called the Packard One-Ten beginning in 1940. It was an affordable middle-class family car competing with the Oldsmobile L-Series and DeSoto sixes; a 4-door sedan was US$895 and the station wagon US$1,295. When production resumed in the fall of 1945 the model year 1946 kept pre-war designs, and all models with a larger 245.3 cu in (4,020 cc) L-head engine were now called the Packard Clipper (Clipper Six, Series 2100 4-door Touring Sedan US$1,730).
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| Trim | Years | Engine | Power | Torque | 0–60 | Drive | Gearbox | MSRP |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Six 115-C 237 cu in L-head (3,884 cc) | 1937–1942 | 3.9 L | 100 hp | — | — | RWD | — | — |
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Packard's Six badge once meant top-tier luxury — by the 115-C it had been repositioned as an affordable family car, going up against the Oldsmobile L-Series and DeSoto's sixes.
Once Packard's new straight-eight arrived in 1924, the once-flagship Six got bumped down market — repositioned to compete with the Buick Master Six and, later, the Chrysler Six.
This Packard Six was the last Packard ever sold under the word "model" — after it, Packard switched to the series-based naming it used for the rest of its history.
Rivals
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