For example, wouldn't Ford be better off fixing its Focus small car instead of spending billions of dollars buying luxury brands?
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.
For example, wouldn't Ford (nyse: F - news - people ) be better off fixing its Focus small car instead of spending billions of dollars buying luxury brands?
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.
Ford really can't afford to give up those Mercury sales or potential customers who don't like the name FORD.
Hyundai wouldn't be rekindling Henry Ford's vision if it didn't see it as a way to profit.
Revivals of any sort--from White Castle hamburgers to the Ford T-Bird--carry a high risk.
"You don't take your Ford to the VW mechanic, " says Tibbs' partner Stephen Cagle.
That doesn't explain what Ford Motor is up to, but it explains Cunningham.
Other new models, such as the Freestyle, Mercury Montego--and even the hot-selling Ford Mustang--haven't been enough to revive Ford sales.
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Pollster Nik Nanos said polling showed voters knew about past Ford controversies, but that they weren't a factor in Rob Ford's election in 2010.
The game isn't over, but Ford has been pushed back to its own 20-yard line.
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From then until the introduction of the Ford Model T in 1908, cars were just toys for the rich.
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Carr, acknowledges it will be an uphill battle but he says he hasn't lost hope that Ford will reverse its decision.
But if South America doesn't improve soon, Ford may well decide its money is better spent in other parts of the world.
But there might not be enough Lincoln volume for the brand to stand alone, and it probably won't do well in Ford showrooms.
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.
But Ford isn't the only one playing big-company antics more common among small-fry marketers.
Ford won't be left entirely high and dry if tastes trend back to bigger cars.
If Ford doesn't seem to care for Mercury, it does want to grow Lincoln.
Does anyone seriously believe that Ford won't be able to make good on its 7.35s of 2012?
Ford wasn't interested and instead asked it to solve the emissions problem, out of which came the catalytic converter.
Ford won't confirm that, saying only that the Freestyle name will continue, though perhaps not on the current vehicle.
Ford hasn't been holding any punches by selling of some of its pieces.
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