I vote TIE, but it's a TIE for not liking both equally. Two body styles that do absolutely nothing for me. Both odd in look to my eyes. They'd be lost in a sea of Oldsmobile's, DeSoto's, Buick's, Mercury's and Ford's.
I will go for a tie here too, not because I don’t like them, but because both were unique styles in a field of comparatively similar vehicles for the time.
Kaiser is much better looking, although neither car does much for me compared to other makes of this model year. The Nash is great to see at shows though; because it is so unusual and quite rare.
I like them both. These two, as well as the Hudson, were not into the lock step of Ford and GM. Kaiser and Nash management were willing to let their stylists go into different directions. I'm still not taken with the Nash bodies that restricted wider wheel stances, but at least it gave buyers a larger field to choose from. The Kaiser was perhaps a "love it or hate it" design, but it still appeals to me. I agree with John's statement on Kaiser's engineering. I have sometimes wondered if Packard, a very important engine builder during World War II, had brought out two or three different V8 engines in '47 and/or '48, used the larger one for their own line and sold the smaller to the other independents.
