Key facts
- Manufacturer
- Ford Motor Company
- Production
- October 1954 – September 1997 June 2001 – July 2005
- Model years
- 1955–1997 2002–2005
- Class
- Personal luxury car Sports car (first generation)
- Layout
- Front-engine, rear-wheel drive
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- car model
- Subclass of
- sports car
- Country of origin
- United States
- Manufacturer
- Ford Motor Company
- Image
- 1957 Ford Thunderbird (28911503716) (cropped).jpg
- Length
- 5214
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- Commons category
- Ford Thunderbird
- Commons gallery
- Ford Thunderbird
- location of creation
- Dearborn
- inception
- 1955-00-00
- discontinuation date
- 2005-00-00
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Encyclopedic overview
The Ford Thunderbird is a personal luxury car manufactured and marketed by Ford Motor Company for model years 1955 to 2005, with a hiatus from 1998 to 2001.
Ultimately gaining a broadly used colloquial nickname, the T-Bird, the model was introduced as a two-seat convertible, subsequently offered variously in a host of body styles including 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, before returning in its final generation, again as a two-seat convertible.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Ford Thunderbird” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.