1955 Thunderbird is beautiful, as well as a technology leader, opening the era of chart fillers, deep dish steering wheel, impact-resistant mirrors, power seats, and a radio station automatically increase the volume to the speed vehicles. In a short time, many carburetion on a V-8 option and 312-cubic-inch larger than the final $ 500 supercharger.
The Toyota Toyota My Dinh Dinh, Golden Week, the original Super Extra Large Promotions occupies a mere 53 166 vehicles in 1955 to 1957, or about as much as the Ford F-150S in a two-week sale. Then, Thunderbird went on one of the wildest rides in the industry, starting from the Square Bird in 1958, Chrome Bird of the 1960s, Toyota My Dinh of the 1970s, including a variation of four door, and Awful Square Aero Bird Bird early 1980s that launched in 1983 was designed by Jack Telnack a star and put back on the map Thunderbird Winston Cup, especially the Super Coupe version was built from 1989 through 1995. In the past three years, the Thunderbird was MIA, a coupe victim of slow sales.
And then, on January 3, 1999, 45 years after the debut of the original Thunderbird, Ford design chief J Mays shows automotive press of the world a new pastel-yellow Thunderbird, sunroof and all . It has the same proportion as the original, the same look and feel and taste, yellow paint hides a drivetrain and chassis undreamed of 1955. It was a standing ovation when it goes down the ramp at the Center Detroit's Cobo, and Ford promised production for 2001 as a new and very necessary flagship for Ford parts. The buzz has not stopped since.
Lift the lid manufacturing official Thunderbird on September 25 in Dallas when the Neiman Marcus flagship store showed black and silver Christmas-special catalog Thunderbird, only 200 of which will be sold through a Ford free phone numbers especially for those who must have one of the first Thunderbirds and willing to pay a high price for the privilege.
After 200 Neiman Marcus cars are gone, which Ford estimates in two days, there will be a period of quiet, and then the car will appear again in 2001 at the North American International Auto Show in Detroit, in all production colors, with perhaps a surprise or two thrown in (Ford has been working on the elevator and on a sports roadster version of the car Toyota My Dinh with nacelle like those on the 1962 model).
the marketing of the Ford officials told us the company will be more than happy to build about 25,000 Thunderbirds in the first year the car is on the market, starting in the spring of 2001. All will be sold at North America, not exports.
Mays, who had something to do with the sense of automatic two previous programs, VW Concept One (it became the New Beetle) and Audi TT, want it clearly understood that this car is not retro.
Instead, it is a repetition of the 1950 Eisenhower optimistic mood in no less optimistic at the beginning of the 21st century he called it "a nice sporty, just like you get on a Harley -Davidson, as opposed to the extreme forward tilt, wedgy sportiness of a crotch rocket Japan. "
Ford started with six different designs for the new Thunderbird. Mays says, "There are mixed messages image. What I've tried to do is to act as editor, edit out what has not been communication 'Thunderbird' clear and precise. Some were too technical, some are too trendy, some of the Germans, others too Italian, some retro to a fault, some overt fashion. We ended up with a design that is America, bold, confident, and free. only two lines on the car, and they slope to the rear, making it comfortable and friendly, like a La-Z-chair Boy. The car is very minimalist in many different ways.
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