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| james_s:
That's not surprising. The Model T was engineered from the ground up to be affordable, that was its whole claim to fame. It was not the first car or the best car, but it was the first reasonably practical car that ordinary people could afford to own. |
| BrokenYugo:
The T, and the Ford Motor Company in general, were cheap and practical to a fault. They only quit building Ts and designed the next car when people quite buying them, as everyone else had more or less standardized on the more or less modern car pattern by then, clutch brake accelerate, 4 wheel brakes, H pattern transmission, etc. Ford were also highly reluctant to license any patented technology, you can blame Philips head screws on Henry Ford, they also kept using mechanical brakes long after hydraulic became prevalent. |
| amyk:
Personally I think GM HEI is a good balance between fully-mechanical points-type ignitions and fully-computer-controlled ones. It's a simple self-contained unit. |
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