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Birth of a Bestseller

“…it was either accidental or sheer marketing genius…”

When did you last see a Ford F-150 pickup truck? You probably saw one within a mile or two of home in the course of your day’s activities. After all, various iterations of Ford’s F-series trucks, most of them F-150s, have been the bestselling trucks in the United States for more than four decades, and,

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