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Ford Motor Co. on Wednesday unveiled its Ford Heritage Fleet of automobiles from necessary factors within the over 120-year-old firm’s historical past.
The Michigan-based automaker has put collectively a set of just about 500 automobiles in whole, with about 175 automobiles included within the U.S. Heritage Fleet.
The automobiles throughout the Ford Heritage Fleet spotlight numerous achievements, technological developments and manufacturing benchmarks that the corporate has had through the years and also will present insights and inspiration for future automobile growth, Ford mentioned.
Ted Ryan, Ford’s archives and heritage model supervisor, advised FOX Enterprise in an interview his group “got direction from senior management to begin to pull together Ford’s heritage fleet around the world” a “little bit” greater than a 12 months in the past.
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“We had a couple that we knew of already. Ford of England had 150-ish cars. Ford of Germany, 100. So we knew those were there, and they were activated in different ways, but we had never had an active fleet in the U.S.,” he mentioned.
Totally different teams like Product Growth and Ford Efficiency had stored automobiles through the years “but it had never been systematically organized and preserved and restored … so over the past year, we have tracked down about 175 vehicles in the United States from a variety of different partners,” Ryan advised FOX Enterprise.
Ford mentioned Product Growth, Ford Efficiency, Communications and the Archives sourced the automobiles that make up the U.S. Heritage Fleet.
2022 F-150 Lighting prototype (Ford Motor Co)
Ryan mentioned a number of the expansive Ford Heritage Fleet will likely be at its new Product Growth Middle and the corporate’s headquarters in Dearborn, Michigan, with plans to additionally “activate” automobiles for household days at its meeting vegetation throughout the nation.
General, the “idea is to take what is essentially the Heritage Fleet and not look back at 120 years of history, but to find a way to use it going forward” for future automobiles, Ryan defined.
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Deciding on automobiles for inclusion within the Fort Heritage Fleet concerned making a “collection management policy” and a “collections storyline” centered on the “importance of the vehicle” and “how it can be used,” based on Ryan.
The ten millionth Mustang, certainly one of Ford’s first four-door Broncos, three generations of Cobra R Mustangs, a 10-cylinder Mustang prototype, a Lincoln Navigator idea automobile and the three 2004 GTs that Ford “used to introduce the GT brand back to the world again” are amongst a number of the automobiles within the Ford Heritage Fleet, he mentioned.
With the Ford Heritage Fleet, Ford groups are in a position to take learnings from previous automobiles that they’ll then use to tell their creation of future automobiles, based on Ford.
“The Bronco is the perfect example,” Ryan mentioned within the interview.
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“The design team was in the archives at least once every other month to look at different design cues that we were pulling at that point off of drawings and earlier brochures and earlier fabric samples,” he mentioned. “Now, we’ll have the actual vehicle that we can make available to the designers to see and do 3-D scans and do all the other things that really let you dissect the vehicle and understand the DNA of what that car, what that truck is, and how it can be made better.”
Another Ford automobiles included within the Ford Heritage Fleet embrace the 1938 V-8 Ambulance, the 1914 Mannequin-T and the Mustang that appeared on the prime of the Empire State Constructing in 2015.
The convertible Mustang on the Empire State Constructing
There are additionally some “really cool” Ford Efficiency automobiles and a number of experimental automobiles, amongst others, based on Ryan.
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