Jeudi 15 décembre

Réseaux sociaux - 15 décembre 2011 :: 15:07 :: Par kvnverger

GAYDON, United Kingdom — Henry Ford created a monster.

The mastermind of mass production gave rise to the modern automobile industry by perfecting the art of building cars quickly and cheaply. In 2010, Ford's assembly line concept was responsible for the nearly 78 million vehicles that rolled out of the world's factories that year. That's more than 213,000 new cars produced each day — kinda makes your Camry feel a little less special, doesn't it?

Though Aston Martin's typical assembly process involves a "line," it doesn’t exactly churn out cars ad infinitum. It took 70 years for the British...