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...This week, Ford announced it would produce the sexy beast, for anyone with a spare $100K or more in their just-gotta-have-it fund...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cars That Make You Go 'Ooh!' | 2/21/2002 | See Source »

...Context: Ford is in desperate financial straits, and even if they had introduced a real blockbuster car in the last couple of years, it would have rolled over in the face of the Firestone onslaught. They needed a button-presser, and the GT40 is a limited production car with a price tag high enough that huge profit margins are guaranteed. Limited ownership. Limited liability...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cars That Make You Go 'Ooh!' | 2/21/2002 | See Source »

...display in Cambridge, Mass. as we speak, right there in the lobby of the Harvard Design School, the first car that's ever been there as a work of art. But it's also worth thinking about the other vehicle that the curators, Joe MacDonald and Kim Shkapich, asked Ford to display. This is the O21C, a vision of lime green and white that looks like it could be either Judy Jetson's shopmobile or a great little around-town-vehicle for New York, or London, or Tokyo. The O21C was designed, under Mays' supervision, by product designer Marc Newson...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cars That Make You Go 'Ooh!' | 2/21/2002 | See Source »

...Here's the point: J Mays and his associates at Volkswagen/Audi and lately at Ford have started a movement among designers to stop listening to focus groups and start thinking about how their creations connect with real people. There are a few more inspiring cars out there these days and you know which they are - the PT Cruiser, the Audi TT, and now maybe the Nissan Altima. But there's a problem. The really emotive mobiles - the '49, the GT40, the new Cadillacs - are priced beyond our reach. Toyota is trying. But with all the production technology out there...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cars That Make You Go 'Ooh!' | 2/21/2002 | See Source »

...raced down the strip in Mintz’s car, I came to the realization that I was invincible. I could not wait to find a crowd of adolescents so I could offer them drugs. Suddenly I was at a stoplight and a brand new Ford Taurus pulled up next to me. Sure, I was already driving a Taurus, but, like, the other one had a CD player. I leapt out of my car and began forcing the driver out of the other Taurus. “This is a carjacking!” I yelled. “What...

Author: By Vali D. Chandrasekaran, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: {untitled} | 2/21/2002 | See Source »

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