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Ford

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Aria

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What we compare	Ford	Aria
Country in archive	United States	United States
Founded	June 16, 1903	1996
Founder	Henry Ford	Charles Taylor, Clive Hawkins, Kevin Cain
Headquarters	Dearborn, Michigan, United States	Irvine, California, United States
Name origin	The company carries Henry Ford's surname. In the badge, that name is treated as a wordmark: its connected strokes make the lettering recognizable as an image as well as a word.	Aria Group has not published why it chose the name "Aria." The word is most commonly known as a musical term for a solo vocal piece, but no company statement ties the name to that meaning, to a founder, or to any other documented source. The origin should be treated as unconfirmed rather than settled.
Selected models	Model T, Mustang, F-150, Bronco, GT40, Mustang Mach-E	FXE
Earliest archived brand logo	1903	2019
Latest archived logo	2017	2019
Archived logo assets	11	1

Logo dates are archive labels; symbols dated before a brand's founding are excluded from its earliest-logo date. Asset counts include all archived variants, not just redesigns. A dash means a value is unavailable.

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