Mostly he trashes the Model T for starting people buying cars. That’s his real beef.
A bit of leftwing hysteria thrown in, typical CNN.
Exactly. 100 years ago Henry Ford produced the Model T and we don't walk and shovel horses&it everyday. That TERRIBLE!
Could not read beyond it since there is no way I could be sure I could tell the difference between fact or fiction.
"It wasn't Marx, but Ford who made the Revolution possible by freeing the proletariat from the idiocy of rural life."
-Lenin
What story are you reading? The one linked above is by an LA Times car critic writing for Time Magazine.
He makes a snide comment about the V-8 too.
Re: The Model T:
” A century later, the consequences of putting every living soul on gas-powered wheels are piling up, from the air over our cities to the sand under our soldiers’ boots. “
Wacko.
It put America on wheels, supercharged the nation’s economy and transformed the landscape in ways unimagined on the day the first black-only Tin Lizzy bucked and trembled off the assembly line. Well, that’s just the problem, isn’t it?
The Model T — whose mass production technique was the work of engineer William C. Klann, who had visited a slaughterhouse’s “disassembly line” — conferred to Americans the notion of automobility as something akin to natural law, a right endowed by our Creator. A century later, the consequences of putting every living soul on gas-powered wheels are piling up, from the air over our cities to the sand under our soldiers’ boots.
And by the way, with its blacksmithed body panels and crude instruments, the Model T was a piece of junk, the Yugo of its day.
In other words, the Model T was bad because it freed humanity to drive. I don’t know why they call these people progressive. If they had their way, we’d all be living in caves naked banging rocks together for tools.