Ford Model B (1904)

The first Ford Model B was a vehicle of the upper middle class that has been made ​​in the years 1904 and 1905 by the Ford Motor Company. It had a water-cooled four -cylinder engine with 4.7 liter displacement and 24 hp. It was the first "modern " cars from Ford, front-engine, rear-wheel drive through a propeller shaft. The sale price was $ 2000 ( without illumination) and thus so high that the car was almost unsaleable. In a promotional campaign, the model B was used as a taxi in London. Despite everything was from the 770 kg heavy vehicle, which had a wheelbase of 2.34 m, only about 500 copies among the people be brought. Ford focused from now on producing affordable vehicles.