GTP Cool Wall: 1908-1927 Ford Model T

[JMoney]

Unlikely, I'll happily be corrected but I don't think there was anything revolutionary about this car that wouldn't have happened through natural evolution in the industry anyway.

Maybe other marques would have figured out efficient mass production, but who known how long that would have taken? It might have been decades, there's just no way of knowing. If the Model T hadn't happened, the world of cars may be much less advanced today.

 

[Epic B]

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"It was the first globally produced car."​

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And that's why it gets a Sub-Zero from me. It's not a fast car by today's standards. But that doesn't matter.

 

[MatskiMonk]

Maybe other marques would have figured out mass production, but who known how long that would have taken? It might have been decades, there's just no way of knowing. If the Model T hadn't happened, the world of cars may be much less advanced today.

Sorry, I still disagree, Olds had got the production line sorted first, and Ford happened upon improvements to it by observing existing processes at other plants in other industries (at least this is what I understand from limited reading on Wiki). We're probably at best talking years even back then... given the millions of man hours of automotive development that have taken place since, I think we're at a point now that's not dictated by know-how within the car industry, more the surrrounding tech and economic factors, not a development that was made a century ago.. in essence, I'm sure we'd have caught up by now.

One of my job roles is to oversee our warehouse and production facility. Within that, continuous improvement - in terms of out put and quality - is a major factor. I find this stuff fascinating, but as far as I've seen so far, the Model T was about timing, more than it was about genuine game changing innovation.

 

[MrUnknown]

The car that made Taylorism into something in the Industry world...

Not bad.

Sorry, but the vote is in the other castle.

 

[Slash]

Sub zero. I've actually seen one in traffic. It was so cool.

 

[Aesthetics]

One of the most important cars of all time.
And that's all it really has, unfortunately.
Low cool for me.

 

[Sage Ages]

This thing does not inspire me to grow a mustache. Also, mass production.

Meh. Almost dips into uncool.

 

[Wolfe]

So, SZ in 1915, SU in 2015

I see it the opposite way. Back then it would just be a car you see everywhere, cookie-cutter, lacking the soul and passion of traditional non-mass-produced cars. Back then, it would be a "pack mule" like niky said. Uncool, or seriously so.

Today, it's a historically significant car you don't see every day, in a quaint style that's adorably delicate and cheerful to the modern eye. Simply Cool. I'm not sure if there are any pre-WWII cars that I would find less than cool.

 

[CinnamonOD]

I know one person that drives his 1916 around the rich neighborhoods of the city, I've had the chance of taking a photo of it parked in front of a bank, I'll dig the DYSAGT Thread.

Seeing it going around with modern cars and the fact that it is the first mass produced car makes it Sub-Zero in my opinion.

 

[Lizard]

By working for Ford you could easily save up and afford one of these and considering the period cars were a luxury.

Therefore SZ.

 

[homeforsummer]

I see it the opposite way. Back then it would just be a car you see everywhere, cookie-cutter, lacking the soul and passion of traditional non-mass-produced cars. Back then, it would be a "pack mule" like niky said. Uncool, or seriously so.

I dunno. It made cars affordable and attainable at a time when everybody seriously wanted a car - the new exciting vehicle that you'd read about but never been able to buy up until now as they were pretty much exclusively bought by the wealthy.

We can only speculate (and of course the word 'cool' didn't come about until the jazz scene so wouldn't have applied until several decades later) but I suspect it'd have been seriously cool to own and drive one back when they were new.

 

[ThrasherDBS]

This car played a magnificent part in the automotive industry. It efficiently debunked the idea that cars were only for those who were exceptionally well off. Karl Benz and Gottlieb Daimler invented the modern automobile, and Henry Ford made them available to the general population.

My neighbor owns one of these. He keeps it in very good working order and drives it around the neighborhood every now and then. He likes showing it off to the rest of the neighborhood.

Problem is, my neighbor is a certifiable jerk (putting it quite lightly, as many of our other neighbors would agree). I won't go into detail, so as not to muck up the thread. He is the only one I know that owns one of these, and he is such an obnoxious and pompous 🤬 that he sours my view of this car completely by mere association. I'd give this a Sub-Zero, but because I can't help but associate this car with one of the most despicable individuals I've ever met, that forces it down to Seriously Uncool.

 

[Johnny_Clash]

I went with cool. My father-in-law has 2 and he just loves to drive them. He's not interested in showing-off; he just plain enjoys the cars.

Fun fact: sometimes if a hill is too steep, you have to go up it in reverse because the fuel system is gravity fed and has no fuel pump.

 

[Leonidae@MFT]

Cool.

 

[ClydeYellow]

On one hand: a bland old car that introduced the abomination that is Fordism to the world.

On the other hand: the first "popular" car. Of course if it wasn't the Tin Lizzy it would've been some Oldsmobile, or maybe a Renault. But the T was there first, and therefore it deserves a lot of respect.

I guess it balances out to a tepid "cool" for me.