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...right. It's more complicated than Retro. It's really about emotion, and getting us to say "Wow!" or "Gee!" or more when we see a car. Among the six cars on display at the Design School is one even more inspiring, edgier, riskier, than the T-bird - the Ford '49. It's a dramatic black coupe with a glass roof that is supposed to hark back to the the car Henry Ford introduced in 1949, a hugely popular model that saved the company from post-war extinction...
...real coup is the GT 40, a redesigned (mod!) version of the Ford Le Mans race car that was big in the late 60s - particularly with Steve McQueen in the John Frankenheimer film, "Le Mans." Ford introduced this new GT40 as a concept car at the Detroit auto show in January. It drew rave reviews and a cascade of calls and emails from interested buyers, including a gang of small businessmen from the East Coast who flew their jet out for a private viewing...
...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. While that may seem a little strange for an automaker that plays to a mass market, there's a sound reason behind this. Ford is in desperate financial straits, and they needed a button-presser. The GT40 is a limited production car with a price tag high enough that huge profit margins are guaranteed. Limited ownership. Limited liability...
...FORD The O21C...
...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 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...