The resulting Ford " Pygmy " and Willys " Quad " prototypes looked very similar to the Bantam BRC ( Bantam Reconnaissance Car ) prototype and Spicer supplied very similar four-wheel drivetrain components to all three manufacturers.

He checked into the Betty Ford Clinic on January 7, 1994, after being told by a doctor that his liver was so badly damaged from almost 40 years of drinking that it " looked like a doorstop.

During VAZ 2108 development, VAZ engineers also looked closely at a range of European competitors like the Volkswagen Golf, Opel Kadett D, Ford Escort Mark III, and Renault 9.

) Its smoothly sloped line there looked more like a 1950s Studebaker ( or even early Ford Thunderbird ) than the more aggressive-looking late -' 50s American Fords, possibly because its British designers used wind-tunnel testing and streamlining.

Ford said nothing, but looked away and shook his head nervously, then saying he had no memory of it whatsoever and it, therefore, " doesn't exist.

He has been coping with divorce after his wife left him for a man who looked exactly like Harrison Ford.

The new Lanchester looked just like a Ford Prefect and its body was made in the same factory.

Initially, the company looked at various other Ford products such as the Ford Taurus, Mazda 929, and the European Scorpio as replacements for the Falcon.

On his way, he is befriended and looked after by a stranger named Tommy Lillard ( Ford ), a bank robber with a soft heart who is moved by Avram's helplessness and frank personality, despite the trouble it occasionally gives him.

Piper pursued in his white Ford Bronco, which when viewed from aerial footage looked similar to the O. J. Simpson " low-speed " chase from two years prior ( the WWF had attempted to be humorous and recycle the footage with Vince McMahon quipping on commentary, " This footage looks awfully familiar ").

The Alliance was slightly smaller on the outside than the competing first generation Ford Escort ( North America ), but a somewhat bigger on the inside where it looked larger and more inviting.

He produced The Ford 50th Anniversary Show on June 15, 1953, a live two-hour simulcast on CBS and NBC that looked back on the history of the United States and the world up to 1953.

When the votes were first counted it looked like Kuykendall had eked out a narrow victory — but Ford ultimately won by 744 votes after contesting the original count.

During the course of the HZ series, equipment levels were upgraded in 1978 effectively to match improvements in the opposition Ford Falcon range, but the life of the Kingswood looked set to end following Holden's release of the VB Commodore range of sedans and wagons in November 1978.

The 1964 Meteor looked nearly identical to the 1964 Mercury, save for its Ford dashboard and interior, and was available in a base and Custom series.

He also has a bumper sticker which reads " my other car is the Millennium Falcon " which was given to him by somebody who looked liked the actor Harrison Ford ; the Millennium Falcon was the ship used by Ford's character Han Solo in the Star Wars film series.

Although Canterbury had looked like losing when they slumped to 108 for 8, Lee Germon and Roger Ford had stopped the rot and seemed set to hold out for a draw.

In 1998, it looked like Sacks would finally find a steady ride, driving the # 98 Thorn Apple Valley Ford for Cale Yarborough.

Reportedly, Armstrong looked so much like Harrison Ford that the crew members on the films were constantly mistaking him for Ford.

" When Ford made the decision official the next day, Bunkie said " I'm shocked " to which Ford replied, " I imagine you would be.

In late 2006, David begins to form a crush on his hair salon colleague Maria Sutherland ( Samia Smith ), but is shocked to learn that she having a secret relationship with builder Charlie Stubbs ( Bill Ward ) behind his girlfriend Tracy Barlow's ( Kate Ford ) back.

During his time in New York, Ford became a fixture at the legendary nightclub Studio 54, where he realized he was gay.

In other words, Ford saw the rust and realized that the steel plant was not recovering all of the iron.

Concerned with the runaway success of the Ford Mustang, Chevrolet executives realized that their compact sporty car, the Corvair, would not be able to generate the sales volume of the Mustang due to its rear-engine design, as well as declining sales, partly due to the bad publicity from Ralph Nader's book, Unsafe at Any Speed.

Lee Marvin stated at length in a filmed interview that Ford realized that the film would not be as effective shot in color because the atmosphere and use of shadows would be adversely impacted and fought to make it in black-and-white.

In 1948, Ford realized it was late in introducing a fully automatic transmission to its automobile lineup.

In the 1980s Deming was asked by Ford Motor Company to start a quality initiative after they realized that they were falling behind Japanese manufacturers.

A romance between Kira Ford and fellow Dino Ranger Trent Mercer was hinted at during the series, but never fully realized.

According to Robert Ford, it became clear to him that James had realized they were there to betray him.

They were not diplomats or jazz musicians, or even organizers of reading-rooms and photo-montage displays, but rugged capitalist entrepreneurs like Henry Ford, Hugh Cooper, Thomas Campbell, the International Harvester Co., and David W. Griffith.

However, poor performances at the road course of Watkins Glen, where he wrecked coming out of the chicane, a wreck with Chad Little while leading the spring race at Bristol, and mid-pack runs at intermediate tracks like Charlotte and Dover in a season dominated by the Ford Taurus in those tracks of Roush, Yates, and Penske, coupled with the extremely consistent Joe Gibb's No. 18 team with Bobby Labonte, denied Earnhardt the coveted eighth championship title.

Another example is Francis Ford Coppola's Apocalypse Now Redux, which, like the original film, polarized the audience, with some fans considering the original version to be the definitive cut.

For instance, Mazda's Familia platform was used for Ford models like the Laser and Escort, while the Capella architecture found its way into Ford's Telstar sedan and Probe sports models.

The runaway success of the Scénic saw the car spawn a multitude of similar vehicles, like the Opel Zafira, Opel Meriva, the Citroën Xsara Picasso, the Volkswagen Touran, the SEAT Altea, the Ford Focus C-Max, and the Nissan Almera Tino.

Whilst some MUVs might be replicas of European MPVs ( such as the European Ford Fusion ) or American-style minivans ( like the Toyota Innova ), in some cases MUVs are similar to SUVs ( such as the Chevrolet Tavera ).

By 1907, REO had gross sales of $ 4. 5 million and the company was one of the four wealthiest automobile manufacturers in the U. S. After 1908 however, despite the introduction of improved cars designed by Olds, REO's share of the automobile market decreased due in part to competition from emerging companies like Ford and General Motors.

Edison's true success, like that of his friend Henry Ford, was in his ability to maximize profits through establishment of mass-production systems and intellectual property rights.

Jensen also criticized Gould for concentrating on long-disproven arguments ( noting that 71 % of the book's references preceded 1950 ), rather than addressing " anything currently regarded as important by scientists in the relevant fields ", suggesting that drawing conclusions from early human intelligence research is like condemning the contemporary automobile industry based upon the mechanical performance of the Ford Model T.

Popular music stars in the early 1950s included Frank Sinatra, Tony Bennett, Frankie Laine, Patti Page, Judy Garland, Johnnie Ray, Kay Starr, Perry Como, Bing Crosby, Rosemary Clooney, Dean Martin, Georgia Gibbs, Eddie Fisher, Teresa Brewer, Dinah Shore, Kitty Kallen, Joni James, Peggy Lee, Julie London, Toni Arden, June Valli, Doris Day, Arthur Godfrey, Tennessee Ernie Ford, Guy Mitchell, Nat King Cole, and vocal groups like The Mills Brothers, The Ink Spots, The Four Lads, The Four Aces, The Chordettes, Fontane Sisters, The Hilltoppers and The Ames Brothers.

Followed in his analysis people like Theodore Roosevelt, Henry Ford, Steve Jobs, Bill Clinton, Charlie Sheen, Rahm Emmanuel and Mark Zuckerberg.

Offering the then-popular open body style and Dodge's powerful V8 engines, the Ramcharger was a strong competitor for trucks like the Ford Bronco, Chevrolet Blazer and International Harvester Scout II.

Sized between smaller SUVs ( like the Chevrolet Blazer and Ford Explorer ) and larger models ( like the Chevrolet Tahoe and Ford Expedition ), Durango was both a bit more and bit less of everything.

He was told by Tokovsky that when actor Tony Curtis delivered a bag of groceries, he did it like a movie star ; Ford felt his job was to act like a bellboy.

In the commercial, Thurmond declared that Ford ( who was born in Nebraska and spent most of life in Michigan ) " sound more like a Southerner than Jimmy Carter ".

Due to the shift in the Big Three's strategy, many long-running cars like the Ford Taurus, Buick Century and Pontiac Grand Prix fell behind their Japanese competitors in features and image ( relying more on fleet sales instead of retail and / or heavy incentive discounts ); some were discontinued.

Catwalk regulars like Gia Carangi, Cheryl Tiegs, Carol Alt, Christie Brinkley, Kim Alexis, Paulina Porizkova, Kathy Ireland, Brooke Shields, Heather Locklear, and Elle Macpherson began to endorse products with their names, as well as their faces, through the marketing of brands such as the beverage Diet Pepsi to the extension of car title Ford Trucks.

Although there had been exceptions like the outlandish Ford V8 specials created by the Romanians for the 1936 Monte Carlo Rally, rallies before World War II had tended to be for standard or near-standard production cars, a rule supported by manufacturers because it created a relatively even playing field.

He was captivated by movies from an early age, particularly the westerns of Howard Hawks and John Ford, as well as 1950s low budget horror films, such as The Thing from Another World and high budget science fiction like Forbidden Planet and began filming horror shorts on 8 mm film even before entering high school.

Unsung pioneers of the art include: WLW's Fred Smith ; Freeman Gosden and Charles Correll ( who popularized the dramatic serial ); The Eveready Hour creative team ( which began with one-act plays but was soon experimenting with hour-long combinations of drama and music on its weekly variety program ); the various acting troupes at stations like WLW, WGY, KGO and a number of others, frequently run by women like Helen Schuster Martin and Wilda Wilson Church ; early network continuity writers like Henry Fisk Carlton, William Ford Manley and Don Clark ; producers and directors like Clarence Menser and Gerald Stopp ; and a long list of others who were credited at the time with any number of innovations but who are largely forgotten or undiscussed today.