Ford is putting its troubles to one side this week to celebrate the centenary of a product that, one can safely say, changed the world – the Model-T Ford. Bernard Simon visits the Model-T birthday party in Richmond and looks back at the history of an American classic.
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Modern America was built on the back of its mass-market car industry. But with petrol above $4 a gallon, carbon caps on the horizon, and Detroit’s carmakers buckling under foreign competition, can the US get over its love affair with the automobile? New series starts on Thursday.
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