Introduced in 1908, the Ford Model T revolutionized the automobile industry. Not only was it the first affordable and mass-produced car, it was also a rugged and highly versatile vehicle. And it has a ...

While it was invented in 1886 when Carl Benz patented his Benz Patent-Motorwagen, the automobile didn't become popular and affordable until the late 1900s. That's when Ford introduced the Model T.

Where would hot rodding be if Henry Ford had not decided to build the Model T? For the first several decades of its existence, the automobile was a luxury item. At the start of World War I, ...

Evan Williams is an automotive journalist and mechanical engineering technologist with more than a decade of experience in the industry. He has written for the Toronto Star and AutoTrader Canada and ...

The Ford Model T is an unquestioned icon of the automotive industry. After the Model T's introduction in the fall of 1908, Ford's assembly plant on Piquette Avenue in Detroit couldn't produce the car ...

To mark the 250th anniversary of the United States, we’re cataloging 25 objects that define the country’s history. When the Ford Model T first hit the road in the early 1900s, it didn’t just change ...

First released in 1908 by the Ford Motor Company, the Model T is one of the most important vehicles ever made. While it wasn't the first car to be produced on an assembly line, Ford took steps that ...

In the early 20th century, rural mail carriers who purchased automobiles for their routes learned quickly that their new cars were often no match for deep snow. In 1906, Virgil White began converting ...

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 ...

WhenFour Wheelerintroduced the RTI system, it came out of a need to score the suspension articulation of different vehicles. This was done for many reasons: comparing stock vehicles against each other ...