"T-Bird" redirects here. For other uses, see T-Bird (disambiguation). For other uses of thunderbird, see thunderbird (disambiguation).
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Motor vehicle
Ford Thunderbird
1957 Thunderbird
Overview
Manufacturer
Ford Motor Company
Production
October 1954 – September 1997
June 2001 – July 2005
Model years
1955–1997
2002–2005
Body and chassis
Class
Personal luxury car
Sports car (first and eleventh generations)
Layout
Front-engine, rear-wheel drive
The Ford Thunderbird (colloquially called the T-Bird) is a personal luxury car manufactured and marketed by Ford Motor Company from model years 1955 to 2005 (with a 1997–2002 hiatus), across 11 generations. Introduced as a two-seat convertible, the Thunderbird was offered variously as a four-seat hardtop coupe, four-seat convertible, five-seat convertible and hardtop, four-door pillared hardtop sedan, six-passenger hardtop coupe, and five-passenger pillared coupe, with the final generation designed again as a two-seat convertible.
Ford targeted the two-seat Thunderbird as an upscale model, but the 1958 model year design introduced a rear seat and arguably marked the expansion of a market segment eventually known as personal luxury cars, positioned to emphasize comfort and convenience over handling and high-speed performance.
The FordThunderbird (colloquially called the T-Bird) is a personal luxury car manufactured and marketed by Ford Motor Company from model years 1955 to...
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the FordThunderbird (second generation) when it was redesigned from a two-seat car to a four-seat vehicle. These changes shifted the Thunderbird's emphasis...
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from 1960 to 1964 was now complemented by a variety of other Fords, including the Thunderbird and compact Falcon, and from 1962 the midsized Fairlane. So...
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America to retain "FORD" lettering in place of the Ford Blue Oval emblem; the Thunderbird (which used its own emblem) never used Ford badging on the grille...
more-recognized Thunderbird name, and the previous full-sized Thunderbird was discontinued. 1974 Ford Grand Torino Elite Ford Elite 1974 Ford Gran Torino...
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