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[–] Lyudmila@hexbear.net 9 points 3 days ago

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.