From then until the introduction of the Ford Model T in 1908, cars were just toys for the rich.
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Rothschild caught the collecting bug at age 18, when he bought and restored a Ford Model A. That was in 1960.
The original station wagons were literally that wagon bodies built on a Ford Model T chassis used to transport people and luggage from a train station.
The first factory station wagon, according to Stationwagons.com, was a 1937 Ford Model A. Station wagons hit their peak in the 1960s, when it seem like every family had 2.2 children and a big wagon with a stretched wheelbase and hideous fake wood siding.
Power data, one Ford computer model concluded that Explorer customers respond better to cut-rate loans.
She was a DePaul MBA candidate on break working as a Ford fashion model in Hong Kong when she decided that entrepreneurship was the best way for her to make a difference.
On his shelves, he has a plastic model of a Ford Mustang, another model he worked on.
No other company came close to making a car as cheaply as Ford made its Model T.
When Henry Ford built the Model T, few roads were paved, so the cars had to be tough.
An Indian car may soon earn a parking place in history alongside Ford's Model T, Volkswagen's Beetle and the British Motor Corp.
There were people still meandering along in horse-drawn buggies long after Henry Ford introduced the Model T for everyday people to drive.
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In fact, Henry Ford's Model T a hundred years ago got 25 miles to the gallon, which is better fuel economy than the average new car today.
Ford and Honda capture two model-level awards each, with Ford receiving awards for the all-new Fiesta and F-150 LD and Honda receiving awards for the Ridgeline and redesigned Odyssey.
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The feature, which is intended to reduce texting while driving, is part of Ford's voice-activated technology, Sync, and is already installed on all model 2012 Ford vehicles with the exception of the Ranger.
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Henry Ford changed the operating model of enterprises everywhere with his vertically integrated factories.
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But the computer model suggested Ford would do better if it offered three models, with different equipment levels.
Nine thousand like-minded Lizzie drivers have gathered there, many also belonging to the older Model T Ford Club International, founded in 1952.
The Model T Ford, built from 1908 to 1927, was meant to be a bare-bones alternative to luxury cars for the rich.
The Rocky Mountain trip was co-organized by local chapters out of Colorado and Oklahoma of the Model T Ford Club of America.
The Model T Ford when introduced by Henry Ford in 1908 could be ordered with an adjustable Holley carburetor that could be adjusted to run on either gasoline or ethanol.
Since UPS began shuttling parcels from Seattle department stores with a Model T Ford and a few motorcycles in the early 1900s, it has become an almost invisible hand in the U.S. economy (see chart).
L. Doctorow's new novel, "Homer and Langely, " offers fictional insight into the reclusive Collyer brothers, found dead in their Fifth Avenue mansion in 1947 amid 130 tons of trash, including 14 pianos, 25, 000 books, decades worth of newspapers and the chassis of a Model T Ford.
Just weeks after the magazine assailed Ford for how the complexity of the MyFord Touch system continued to confuse American car buyers, Consumer Reports alleged that the Ford Fusion Hybrid delivered only 39 mpg in its tests of the vehicle in highway and city driving, far short of the 47 mpg Ford claims for the model.
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"I will build a car for the multitude, " Henry Ford said of his famous Model T.
It was billed as a crossover model, and Ford launched it with a highly visible ad campaign.
He installed his device into a Ford Crown Victoria, the model abused by so many cops and cabbies, and slammed the door 100, 000 times to see if vibrations would wear it down.
The greatest fortune ever made in the auto business was made by Henry Ford with his low-priced Model T car.
Ford is developing a low cost model in its Hangzhou plant in Eastern China, which is due to begin production from 2015 onward.
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At the same time, Ford is developing a low cost model in its Hangzhou plant in Eastern China which is due to begin production from 2015 onward.
In China too, Ford is developing a low cost model in its Hangzhou plant in Eastern part of the country which is due to begin production from 2015.
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