Initially it was to be based on the Ford Maverick, but ultimately was based on the Ford Pinto subcompact.

While the previously introduced Ford Maverick offered either straight-6 or V8 engine and twin bench seats, the Pinto offered an inline-4 engine, and bucket seats – more in keeping with small imports such as the Volkswagen Beetle, available since 1949, the Toyota Corolla, introduced to North America March 1968, and the newly introduced Datsun 1200 which appeared in 1970.

Styling somewhat resembled the larger Ford Maverick in grille and tail light themes, but with a fastback profile.

Wanting to avoid internal competition with the " Euro-styled " Pontiac Grand Am, and looking for an entry into the compact muscle market populated by the Plymouth Duster 360, Ford Maverick Grabber and AMC Hornet X, Pontiac moved the 1974 GTO option to the compact Pontiac Ventura, which shared its basic body shell and sheetmetal with the Chevrolet Nova.

As buyers began exchanging large cars for the smaller imported ones, Detroit responded with the Ford Pinto, the Ford Maverick, the Chevrolet Vega, the Chevrolet Nova, the Plymouth Valliant, and the Plymouth Volaré.

Many times, Mercury models shared platforms with Ford products, such as the Mercury Cougar ( shared with the Ford Mustang, Thunderbird, and Elite ), the Mercury Bobcat ( shared with the Ford Pinto ), or the Mercury Comet ( shared with the Ford Falcon, Fairlane, and Maverick ).

The Comet was based on the compact Ford Falcon and later the Ford Maverick.

For 1971, the Comet name was revived on Mercury's version of the Ford Maverick compact.

Ford had originally planned to the replace the Comet and its Ford Maverick counterpart for the 1975 model year with updated and extensively redesigned models that would continue to use the Comet and Maverick names.

These would-be replacements, also using the same basic chassis as the Comet and Maverick, became the Mercury Monarch and the American Ford Granada, came with more standard and optional equipment than the Comet and Maverick, and were considered to be " luxury compacts ," a step up from the Comet and Maverick.

* Ford Maverick ( disambiguation ), the name of four different automobiles made by the Ford Motor Company

The Ford Motor Company has marketed the following models using the Ford Maverick nameplate:

I was again in motion and at a speed which belied the truck's similarity to Senor X's Ford turtle.

One of his initial acts in office was to appoint Philip Coombs of the Ford Foundation as the first Assistant Secretary of State for Educational and Cultural Affairs.

It was the Ford that had been outside Burch's farm.

To Rickards, a 52-year-old veteran 30 years in the air, it was an old story: His plane was being hijacked in mid-flight again much as it had happened in 1930, when Peruvian rebels made him land a Ford tri-motor at Arequipa.

Henry Ford was the first to master the moving assembly line and was able to improve other aspects of industry by doing so ( such as reducing labor hours required to produce a single vehicle, and increased production numbers and parts ).

Ford was the first company to build large factories around the assembly line concept.

Byron Rickards, flying a Ford Tri-Motor, was approached on the ground by armed revolutionaries.

The American M8 Light Armored Car was a 6x6 armored car produced by the Ford Motor Company during the Second World War intended initially as a fast wheeled tank destroyer.

In 2008 she was awarded the Louis P. and Evelyn Smith First Amendment Award by the Ford Hall Forum.

From 1994 until 2007, Aston Martin was part of the Ford Motor Company, becoming part of the company's Premier Automotive Group in 2000.

Another house guest was Walter Hayes, vice-President of Ford of Europe.

The third a cappella musical to appear Off-Broadway, In Transit, premiered 5 October 2010 and was produced by Primary Stages with book, music, and lyrics by Kristen Anderson-Lopez, James-Allen Ford, Russ Kaplan, and Sara Wordsworth.

As well as motor dealerships from Ford ( Greyhound ), Vauxhall & Chevrolet ( Accrington Garages ), the town was home to a Arnold Clark car dealer which closed down in 2010.

Six former Oriole franchise radio announcers have received the Hall of Fame's Ford C. Frick Award for excellence in broadcasting: Chuck Thompson ( who was also the voice of the old NFL Baltimore Colts ); Jon Miller ( now with the San Francisco Giants ); Ernie Harwell, Herb Carneal ; Bob Murphy and Harry Caray ( as a St. Louis Browns announcer in the 1940s.

The original name of the bridge was Broad Ford Bridge.

Jefferson's earnings reputedly enabled him to buy a car and employ chauffeurs ( although there is debate over the reliability of this as well ); he was given a Ford car " worth over $ 700 " by Mayo Williams, Paramount's connection with the black community.

* In 1927, a feature-length silent film Casey at the Bat was released, starring Wallace Beery, Ford Sterling, and ZaSu Pitts.

The award was first introduced in 1956 by Baseball Commissioner Ford Frick in honor of Hall of Fame pitcher Cy Young, who died in 1955.

The Cy Young Award was first introduced in 1956 by Commissioner of Baseball Ford Frick in honor of Hall of Fame pitcher Cy Young, who died in 1955.

At the 2007 British Soap Awards, it won Best Storyline, and Kate Ford was voted Best Actress for her portrayal.

Early financial assistance from the Ford, Hewlett and Mott Foundations was critical to establishing the association.

The town was an ancient borough, incorporated by Edward III, known formally as Clifton-Dartmouth-Hardness, and consisting of the three parishes of St Petrox, St Saviour and Townstall, and incorporating the hamlets of Ford, Old Mill and Norton.

Dahomey was chosen for some of the filming locations in the movie, The Comedians ( 1967 film ), with an all-star cast that included Richard Burton, Elizabeth Taylor, Lillian Gish, James Earl Jones, Roscoe Lee Brown, Alec Guinness, Raymond St. Jacques, Gloria Foster, Zakes Mokae, Paul Ford, Georg Stanford Brown, Peter Ustinov, Douta Seck and Cicely Tyson.

The GT40's intended 3. 0 L replacement, the Ford P68, and Mirage cars proved a dismal failure.

In 2001, Hyundai debuted a new evolution of the Accent WRC, which was intended to improve reliability, but the performance of the car was still not good enough to challenge the four big teams ( Ford, Mitsubishi, Peugeot and Subaru ).

Despite ( or perhaps because of ) the manner in which Ford intended it, Rose adopted that nickname as a badge of honor.

For Christmas 2011, a new single seater mod came available. The F2 1967 Mod provide new accurate cars shapes, drivers, car sounds and physics. The Formula 2 physics were intended to get close racing online, with most of the cars sharing the same Ford Cosworth FVA 1600cc engine. Despite this, as others GPL mods, the F2 mod benefit of the extended 11 different cars slots with their individual handling. In 1967, drivers took part in no less than 23 Formula 2 races.

All of the features added to the " 1965 " model were available as options or developmental modification to the " 1964½ " model, which in some cases led to " mix-and-match " confusion as surprised Ford execs hurriedly ramped up production by taking over lines originally intended for other car models ' 1965 years.

By 1939, Henry Ford built a carburetor plant and two hydroelectric stations intended to allow residents to maintain their agricultural work while working in the factories.

However, Ford revived the Taurus name during the 2007 Chicago Auto Show a few months later by renaming two new models that had been intended to be updated versions of the Five Hundred and the Freestyle, the " 2008 Taurus " and " 2008 Taurus X ", respectively.

Investigative journalist Max Wallace noted that " whatever credibility this absurd claim may have had was soon undermined when James M. Miller, a former Dearborn Independent employee, swore under oath that Ford had told him he intended to expose Sapiro.

The Zetec, although originally intended only for front wheel drive installation can adapted fairly easily owing to the engines ' use as a replacement for Kent units in Formula Ford.

In 1935, Edsel Ford designed a new, more luxurious version of his company's mainline car, intended to bridge the enormous price gap between the highest trimmed Ford and the base Lincoln.

In 1967, the Cougar was introduced as Mercury's version of the Ford Mustang ; although mechanically related, the Cougar's looks were intended to be more of a " European " flavor.

Although still mechanically based on the original 1960 Ford Falcon, the Monarch was intended as a compact near-luxury car ; high-trim versions were popular choices as personal cars among Ford executives.

The full-size 2004 Montego, a clone of the Ford Five Hundred, was introduced as the ( intended ) replacement for the Grand Marquis while the mid-size 2006 Milan, a clone of the Ford Fusion and Lincoln MKZ would become the Sable replacement.

In 1624 he was a member of the King's Men, Shakespeare's famous company, and in August of that year played in their notorious production of A Game at Chess — yet in the same year he worked on the now-lost play Keep the Widow Waking with Dekker, Ford, and Webster, which was intended for the Red Bull Theatre.

Leone's intent was to take the stock conventions of the American Westerns of John Ford, Howard Hawks and others, and rework them in an ironic fashion, essentially reversing their intended meaning in their original sources to create a darker connotation.

After lengthy research over fifteen years ( intended only to be a week ), Ford Prefect expanded the entry immensely, though his editor trimmed the new description to " mostly harmless ".

Using its inventory of easy-to-service Ford mechanicals built up during World War II and bodywork of Allard's own design, three post-war models were introduced: the J, a competition sports car ; the K, a slightly larger car intended for road use, and the four seater L. Sales were fairly brisk for a low-volume car, and demand was high for cars in general, which led to the introduction of several larger models, the M and N.

In addition, they were built on the-lighter Ford 300 chassis, originally intended for a smaller-displacement V8.

This was followed by the work Blitzstein intended to be his magnum opus, a three-act opera commissioned by the Ford Foundation and optioned by the Metropolitan Opera entitled Sacco and Vanzetti.

Initially they intended to produce the Zephyr, using expensive dies they would need to purchase from Ford of Britain.

Ford had intended developing the car with left hand drive export potential, and received federal and state government grants to assist, but in October 2007 it was announced by Ford Australia president Tom Gorman that the left-hand-drive Falcon project was to be abandoned and the export incentive grant money would be directed to construction of the Ford Focus small-car in Australia.