1. Don’t look down on family businesses, Ford is the second largest family business in the world. Bill Ford, the great-grandson of Henry Ford, still serves as the company's chairman.
2. The first Ford car was sold to Dr. Finney in 1903 for a total price of $850. "Type A" has a 2-cylinder engine and can reach a top speed of 30 kilometers per hour. However, the current chairman of Ford bought this car back.
3. The first automobile company founded by Henry Ford was not the current Ford Motor Company. Although his first company was named "Henry Ford Company", due to disagreements with investors, Not long after its founding, Henry Ford broke up with his investors and left the company, and the old company was later renamed Cadillac.
4. Henry Ford and Thomas Edison were lifelong friends. At Ford's request, Thomas Edison's son preserved Edison's last breath in a test tube and sealed it with a cork. Ford preserved the tube to commemorate Edison's "life and breath."
5. Ford’s iconic blue oval logo was introduced four years after the company went into production. As we all know, the design was inspired by the boss's favorite rabbit, but no one expected that this rabbit would later defeat a horse (Ferrari) in a competition, and also acquire a tiger and a leopard (Jaguar Land Rover), becoming the most ferocious "little animal" in the automotive industry.
6. In 1914, Ford offered its employees twice the current market average, creating Henry Ford's "$5 a day." High wages, an 8-hour work system and the company's profit sharing minimized employee turnover, which was of great significance to promoting the growth of the middle class and fair wages at the time. Henry Ford was quoted as saying that he wanted to help his workers achieve a "life" and not just a "life."
7. In 1964, Ford launched the Mustang, which became popular throughout the United States. During the following Christmas season, American children purchased 94,000 toy Mustangs.
8. In 1965, in order to promote the Mustang, Ford used an elevator to transport a real car in four parts to the observation deck of the Empire State Building, where it was reassembled and photographed by helicopter. The car was then displayed in the building for 5 months.
9. Ford maintained close relations with Germany before World War II and even received the German Grand Cross from the Nazi regime. Therefore, when the Nazi government took over many foreign-owned factories, Ford retained 52% ownership. Ford even negotiated an agreement that meant that Ford's German factories could obtain many resources that could be used for military industry during the war, especially rubber. .
10. Ford signed an agreement with the Soviet Union in 1929 in which the Soviet Union purchased $13 million worth of cars and parts. In return, Ford agreed to provide technical support. Later named Gorky Automobile Plant in 1932, it produced Ford Model A sedans and Ford Model AA trucks. The derivative model GAZ-AA became the most important military truck in the Soviet Union during World War II.
11. Ford opened a factory in Japan as early as 1925. The birth of Toyota, Nissan and Honda are inextricably related to Ford. However, in 1936, Japan enacted the "Automobile Industry Act (Automobile Manufacturing Business Act)" in order to protect the local automobile industry. This law stipulated that only automobile companies with domestic holdings of more than 50% could be allowed to produce automobiles in the country. At that time, Ford of Japan was Ford of the United States. A wholly-owned automobile subsidiary, the Ford Motor Company's Zian plant in Japan ceased production in 1940 due to legal restrictions. From December 1941 to August 1945, during the Pacific War, the Japanese government expropriated the factory and equipment of Ford of Japan in Yokohama Zian. After the war, the factory and equipment were taken over by the Allied Forces in Japan. In 1958, the factory and equipment were officially returned to Ford Motor Company.
12. The Ford F-Series pickup truck has been one of the best-selling vehicles in the United States so far.
The MacPherson chassis suspension system invented by Mr. McPherson, Ford Motor Vice President of Engineering, is the most widely used chassis suspension structure in the automotive industry today.
(However, Hong Kong and Taiwan translated this old gentleman into Macpherson)
The Fiesta ECOnetic model exhibited by Ford in the UK in 2008 outperformed the Toyota gasoline-electric model at that time with an average fuel consumption of 32.4 kilometers per liter. The Prius Hybrid averages 30.78 kilometers per liter.
15. When former President Gerald Ford described his governing style, he once said: "I am Ford, not Lincoln." Lincoln, the luxury car company owned by Ford, was Comparisons were made and puns were used to express that one was more friendly to the people