You have to love the elitist idiocy of Time Magazine's "50 worst cars of all time list" - check out page 2, where they list the Model T - and get a load out of the summation:

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.

Um, right. Maybe the author (Dan Neil) should consider the era it was built in, the materials available, and the goals Ford had at the time - which was to make the car affordable for enough people to make it mass marketable. When you look at things in history, it's often tempting to apply modern standards - but it's not fair. The people who lived then had diferent ideas, and had grown up with different constraints.

I rate this particular article one of the 50 worst of all time for not remembering the basics of history and journalism.

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