The Car Racing Pedigree and Automobile Sales

As soon as the automobile was developed towards the end of the 19th Century, the first things engineers and enthusiasts alike wanted to do was to go quicker. The demand for celerity on four wheels was born however it took Henry Ford to bring the automobile to the masses with the Imitation T, launched in 1913, and using what was then state of the art mass production techniques. While the Imitation T hardly fits anyone's description of a "sports automobile", it was the fastest mode of personal transport then available. More information: click here