High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Packard Light Eight (series 900) was an automobile model produced by the Packard Motor Car Company of Detroit, Michigan only during model year 1932. The Light Eight was planned as a new entry model. It competed in the upper middle-class with makes like LaSalle, the smaller Buicks and Chryslers, and the top-of-the offerings from Studebaker, Hudson, Nash etc. The idea was to gain much needed additional business for Packard, as the grim of the depression was felt now industry-wide.