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May 26, 2015 4:00 PM UTC For years, Henry and Edsel Ford had been denying that the day was approaching. Asked whether they were working on a new model of car, after nearly two decades of producing the famous Model T, they kept mum. But, as TIME [noted](http://time.com/vault/issue/1927-06-06/page/39/) back then, “in the U. S. motor industry it is considered unpolitic for a manufacturer to say that he will do this or that. When he can produce, he talks.” That changed in late May of 1927, the day that saw the creation of the last-ever, first-ever mass-market car. Over the nearly two decades since it had first been introduced in 1908, it had evolved somewhat—as can be seen in these photos—but it had never lost its signature look. Even though it took a little longer for the actual last Model T in the world to be produced, as various factories wound down those operations, the official date of production of the last Model T at the landmark Highland Park plant was May 26, 1927, according to Ford. The end of an era came shortly after the company churned out its 15 millionth car, an event that was, TIME noted, celebrated in the only way that would be appropriate: by driving. --- > “” --- **_Read more, from 1927, here in the TIME Vault:_** [New Fords](http://time.com/vault/issue/1927-06-06/page/39/)  A Ford Advertisement for Model T Automobile, circa 1909. Fotosearch—Getty Images  ca. September 1908 --- The actual car Henry Ford took on his hunting trip late in September, 1908\. It can be said to be the world's first regular factory-produced Model T. Corbis  A driver behind the wheel of a 1912 Ford Model T taxi. Mansell—The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images  Ladies in a Model T Ford in 1914\. Their chauffeur is standing in front of the car. National Motor Museum/Heritage Images—Getty Images  Young boy with the family Model T, on the farm, 1917. Kirn Vintage Stock—Corbis  Model T Ford with Stephenson agricultural conversion, Sussex, 1917. Ann Ronan Pictures/Print Collector—Getty Images  A Model T motor car, first produced by Ford in 1908. Three Lions—Getty Images  Two women and one man sitting on the running board of a Model T Ford eating lunch, 1920. H. Lefebvre—ClassicStock/Corbis  A 1921 Ford Model T Tudor Sedan descending a hill in San Francisco. Underwood Archives—Getty Images  American motor vehicle industry pioneer Henry Ford (1863 - 1947) standing next to the first and the ten millionth Model-T Ford, 1924. Keystone Features—Getty Images  A Ford worker adds the final touches to the 15 millionth Ford car produced, a Model T Ford, in 1927. Keystone Features—Getty Images ## Transcript In the hyper competitive market of luxury cars, everything matters down to the smallest detail. And in this world even creativity becomes commodity. The people who work here are passionate about design and passionate about producing beautiful products. About an hour north of Los Angeles in Newbury Park, is a consulting agency named Design Works. Here the cars of the future are conceptualized for one of the largest auto makers in the world, BMW. Designworks, overall, is a very unique concept in the world of creative agencies. We have three different studios, Los Angeles, Munich, and Shanghai. We have roughly about 60 creatives here. But designing cars is only the half of it. From airplane interiors to gaming consoles, chairs and construction equipment, industrial to interaction design. It's all created here. Design has become essentially a bigger and bigger selling point. The more and more cars have gotten to look alike. And what we're looking for from our team members is their point of view in terms of taking all of this complex information Digesting it, and creating a vision for our clients. And if you look at consumer surveys, a lot of people are choosing entirely based on what the design of a car looks like, or what the interior is like. Design works projects are eclectic, each informing the next to create what they call Cross fertilization. And this allows the designers and the creatives to feed off of each other and get inspired. We want to cross the, transfer of knowledge. One of their projects even took them to the Olympics in Sochi. Tom was allowed unique access into this think tank of creators who's sole job is to dream up the future. [ MUSIC ] So, a lot of the car companies are really starting to think about what is it that we do? You know, what are we? How do we make stuff that lasts a long time? We have a strong future orientation that's designed where as many of the things that we are doing are multi generational projects. So we're designing for a context that is actually very far out. The big technology companies, the Google's, the Apple's They're interested in any sort of area that can be disrupted. And you know, I think that's put the traditional car makers on notice that they need to be thinking like a software company, they need to be thinking like a product design company. And they still need to be thinking Thinking like a car company but it's a lot more to think about, they integrate together. Part of being a creative is actually researching, it's usually being embedded in the world. We pound pavements all over the world on research trips. We notice the slight variations in color and in texture and in pattern. Part of Sandy McGill's job is to travel the world in search of inspiration. She visits trade shows and art exhibitions, virtually any place that offers in sight into what's trending in design. The samples she collects ends up here. In design works material library, which she manages. In this library, you will find everything form hard materials Plastics and coatings and metals and glass to soft materials like leather and textiles and carpet. You always have to have the physical world to counter balance the digital world. In fact, the physical is going to become even more important. Than it already is. You're going to eventually crave something physical, something tactile, something beautiful. And it's here, where digital design becomes physical, that a few creatives at Design Works get their hands dirty. Our designers are working to create computer generated designs And then they bring it over to the milling department and then we create actual cutter paths which will then remove the material from the sub [ INAUDIBLE ] in order to see their final design. From there to the sketches we do in the 3D shape and try to transform the designer's Turn the sketches into reality. The reason we use foam is because it's it's obviously lighter to move so physically it doesn't take as many people to handle. Clay is an amazing material because you can change it really quick. And you get live view straight away. In general, to build a full size car, it's roughly 40 hours. It really depends on the overall design and how much detail is wanted. If the question is, is BMW credible when it talks about design, certainly. If it can continue to do that while everyone else is talking about design and everyone else is talking about technology and everyone else is talking about drive. Dynamics. When everyone is talking like you can continue to seem authentic. What makes it unique in the design field is the, the size, the volume that we can handle here. We're using something that's normal for manufacturing, but we're using it in a creative way for manufacturing. BMW is trying to establish itself not just as the fastest car, the most fun to drive car It's also trying to say we can make efficiency interesting. [ MUSIC ] Michael Scully had the opportunity to redesign the U. S. bobsleds, which debuted at the Olympic Games The bobsled project started when the U. S. Olympic committee had identified, a critical need on a technology segment And they approached BMW. Were key to know if we would be interested to take it to another level on a really, a technical partnership. It was basically a two- year process. We were very proud on how we did. We won the first metal for the mens two man competition for the U. S. in 62 years So you know, working on something like the bobsled team. It's a brand name exercise. It's a marketing exercise but some of the, some of them learning go both ways. [ NOISE ] It connects to something that they're trying do and that they need to do on a business level. A critical part of the creative process is to dare. Part of daring is their willingness to fail and to take risks. But ultimately, you know we would stagnate, if we didn't try to go into places which were uncomfortable. 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