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The introduction of the Ford Model A in late 1927 represents one of the most significant and successful business turnarounds of the 20th Century. While many wrote off Ford by the mid-1920s due to Henry's single-minded focus on the old-fashioned but successful Model T, Edsel Ford successfully lobbied for development of a new car to replace it. In a startling move, Henry Ford ordered his factories to shut down in June 1927 and when the Model T's successor, the Model A, debuted several months later, it marked a quantum leap forward with its handsome Lincoln-inspired styling, the product of Edsel's design genius.

Substance matched the new Model A's winning style with a larger 200-cubic-inch, 40-horsepower four-cylinder engine producing twice the output of its predecessor. While the Model A was more complex than the old "Tin Lizzie," driving was made much easier with a new sliding-gear manual transmission with a simplified "H" shift pattern. Other advances heralded by the Model A inclu