Ford Model "A" Brazil

Have you ever imagined a car launch attended by almost 10% of a country's population through a network of distributors in a single day? That in the first week, that car would be seen by no less than a quarter of the entire population? That literally thousands of policemen were needed to contain popular enthusiasm, overflowing to the point of breaking the windows of the retail stores, so that they could see the new car more closely and faster?
Well, that dream of manufacturers, the delusion of marketers, the nightmare of competitors, really happened. In the United States, on December 2, 1927, when exactly 10,534,992 people almost razed that country's FORD dealerships to see the hottest and most anticipated car in the history of the automobile, the Ford Model A.