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亨利·福特：我的生活与工作·补录 38
亨利·福特《我的生活与工作》· My Life and Work · 领导
It was not at all my idea to make cars in any such petty fashion. I was looking ahead to production, but before that could come I had to have something to produce. It does not pay to hurry. I started a second car in 1896; it was much like the first but a little lighter. It also had the belt drive which I did not give up until some time later; the belts were all right excepting in hot weather. That is why I later adopted gears. I learned a great deal from that car. Others in this country and abroad were building cars by that time, and in 1895 I heard that a Benz car from Germany was on exhibition in Macy's store in New York. I traveled down to look at it but it had no features that seemed worth while. It also had the belt drive, but it was much heavier than my car. I was working for lightness; the foreign makers have never seemed to appreciate what light weight means. I built three cars in all in my home shop and all of them ran for years in Detroit. I still have the first car; I bought it back a few years later from a man to whom Mr. Ainsley had sold it. I paid one hundred dollars for it.
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定位：Additional excerpt 38 · 核对日期：2026-10-19 · 核验：短摘录
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福特根本不想用这种小打小闹的方式造车。他着眼的是生产，但在那之前，他得先有东西可生产。急不得。1896年他开始造第二辆车，和第一辆很像，但轻一些。它仍用皮带传动，他后来才放弃；皮带没问题，除了热天。这就是他后来采用齿轮的原因。他从那辆车上学到很多。那时国内外已有人造车，1895年他听说一辆德国奔驰车在纽约梅西百货展出。他赶去看，但没发现什么值得借鉴的特点。它也用皮带传动，但比他的车重得多。他追求轻量化；外国制造商似乎从未领会轻量意味着什么。他在自家车间一共造了三辆车，都在底特律跑了多年。第一辆他仍留着；几年后他从安斯利先生转卖的那个人手里买回来，花了一百美元。
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福特在自传中讲述造第二辆车的经历，以及他对轻量化和皮带传动的取舍。
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你追求的目标里，是否有一个像“轻量化”这样被同行忽视却关键的原则？
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