Michigan’s car culture is a vibe, and it all started with the Model T. Once that assembly line got going, more people could opt-in. Although production ended in 1927, the Model T continues to make an ...
The company is again placing itself on the cusp of auto history, at an inflection point not unlike that of its most transformative period. Promising a modern “Model T Moment,” Ford’s chief executive, ...
Everyone with even a passing interest in cars knows that the Ford Model T pretty much started it all, so when the company's current CEO, Jim Farley, declares that a “new Model T moment” is ahead, it's ...
1903: Henry Ford creates Ford Motor Co. 1904: Ford builds the Piquette Avenue Plant in the Detroit neighborhood of Milwaukee Junction, just east of Woodward Avenue. The plant was made of brick and ...
Ford did not invent the automobile. We have Carl Benz to blame for that with his Benz Patent Motorwagen. But we can safely credit Ford with creating the affordable car in the shape of the Model T. One ...
The Model T is known as the car that revolutionized transportation in the 20th century. The moving assembly line created by Henry Ford, the man behind America's first major automotive giant, allowed ...
With that singular instruction, I was fully immersed in the Model T experience, engaging unfamiliar switches and levers, my feet dancing across pedals with exotic purposes as the 1916 Model T — black, ...
There’s no doubt that you’ll instantly recognize clips from the video below, as they’ve been used over and over for more than 100 years to illustrate the development of the assembly line. But those ...
Ford produced about 15 million Model Ts in the 19 years between 1908 and mid-1927 before introducing the upscaled Model A to the world on December 2, 1927. It took several months to switch tooling ...
Randy has spent his entire career chasing the dream he had as a youngster growing up outside New York City in suburban Cliffside Park, New Jersey. “When I got out of the service and returned from ...