PACKARD 400 Coupé 1955

The Packard four Hundred was an automobile built by the Corporation Studebaker-Packard in South Bend, Indiana during model years 1955 and 1956. During its two years in production, the four Hundred was built on the premises of Packard's Detroit, and is considered part of the range of models of high Packard.

Between 1951 and the time of the final Detroit-built Packard came off the line in 1956, the strategy of Packard and marketing, and the model naming convention was in a constant state of flux as the automaker struggled to redefine itself as a manufacturer of luxury cars, and separated from its volume of sales of the models Packard has designated the Packard Clipper. As a result, Packard sent several models that existed in a single year during this period.

In 1951 and 1952 the automaker attempted to use a structure numerical name that designates models Junior Packard Packard 200 and 250 Packard and their high vehicles as the Packard 300, and bearing the highest trim level available, the Patrick-Packard 400. The patrician 400 replaced the previous year's model Custom 8 model range.

The model 400 was removed from the range of models Patrician at the beginning of the model range in 1953, but the name Patrick continued to hold the equipment level premium Packard from 1953 until 1956.
1955 and 1956

For 1955, the name Hundred was re-hired by Packard and assigned to the range of the manufacturer of cars of top model two-door hardtop. The visual cues that helped to easily identify the 400 includes a band of color along the bottom of the cockpit crowned by a band of partial color that truncated along the rear edge of the front doors. "The Four Hundred" in scripture anodized gold decorate the band between the front wheel well and door edge.

The changes in the Four Hundred 1956 followed those changes to the entire line of upper-Packard, as it tried to distance himself even more from the Clipper, which was now its own brand in 1956. The Four Hundred shared its body and chassis with the most expensive, new-for-'56 hardtop Caribbean.

Packards Top received a new texture and grill, multi-tone paint schemes. The car also received a headlight altered with a hood slightly longer stretches over the lighthouse, as well as a more distinctive grille of the grille on 1955. All Packards '56 moved top of the ridge Packard on the front of the hood, leaving the "circle-V" emblem on the grill looking for something naked.

The power was increased as the new-for-1955 V8 was enlarged from 352 to 374 cubic inches, with an improvement in the ratings of the horsepower. A new electronic push-button control of the automatic transmission Ultramatic was offered as an option on the Four Hundred (and Patrician, series in the Caribbean), the push-buttons located on a pod mounted via a stalk to the steering column. Although sophisticated, proved to be problematic. A simple mounted on the column selection was standard.

In 1956, the financial situation at Studebaker-Packard deteriorated to the point that the car manufacturer could no longer afford the luxury of keeping two different brands of automobiles produced in two facilities different. For 1957 Studebaker-Packard sent a single range model, the Clipper. At the end of the model year 1958, the name of Packard left as a car brand in the united States.

Total production for 1955 came to 7.206 units for the Packard four hundred, and 3.224 units for 1956.