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As customers walk away from coupes and sedans, more Japanese automakers are joining the Detroit 3 and retreating from the small car markets where they once dominated.
Part of the reason the DeLorean’s time machine transformation worked so well were the efforts that the prop builders made to incorporate Brown’s advanced technology into the already 80s-futuristic body shape of the DMC-12’s wedge. Well, that and the doors, right? Funny enough, it almost didn’t happen: the studio was pushing hard for product placement in movie, and made numerous overtures to writer Bob Gale to swap out the DeLorean for a more pedestrian Ford Mustang.
Imagine the endless fleets of Fox body replica time machines that were never born, and then shudder in gratitude.
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You knew the idea of a smaller Bronco isn t a new one, though, right?
By our estimation, Ford has built more than 160 car models in its 118-year history. Add to that 18 vans, 6 MPVs, 20 SUVs, around 50 trucks; then there s its back catalog of tractors, military vehicles, race cars, and concept cars. That s not an exact count, but it s close enough to show that we have a treasure trove of vehicles to hunt through to see what we ve forgotten.
For the sake of our sanity and to keep this list manageable, we ll focus mainly on the more modern Ford models time has been unkind to. Unfortunately, though, most of these models have good reasons that time has been unkind to them. We don t mean to go all clickbait on you, but the last one is quite a shocker if you haven t heard of it before.