Absolutely correct. The price discrepancy in cars was primarily about the method of manufacture. The Model T was the Tata Nano of its day, clocking in at a miniscule $850 new in the US ($27,800 adjusted for inflation). This Rolls Royce would have been a shocking, exorbitant… $1200 in Europe ($39,000 adjusted).
Given the reliability difference especially in extreme weather conditions and the fact that the model T was built on an entirely different continent, this honestly isn’t the own the Smithsonian is trying to make it out to be.
Absolutely correct. The price discrepancy in cars was primarily about the method of manufacture. The Model T was the Tata Nano of its day, clocking in at a miniscule $850 new in the US ($27,800 adjusted for inflation). This Rolls Royce would have been a shocking, exorbitant… $1200 in Europe ($39,000 adjusted).
Given the reliability difference especially in extreme weather conditions and the fact that the model T was built on an entirely different continent, this honestly isn’t the own the Smithsonian is trying to make it out to be.