October 01
October 01
The first production, Model T Ford is finished on October 1, 1908, at the company's Piquette Avenue facility in Detroit. Between 1908 and 1927, Ford produced about 15 million Model T automobiles. It had the longest manufacturing run of any vehicle model in history until 1972 when it was overtaken by the Volkswagen Beetle. Cars were a luxury commodity before the Model T: there were less than 200,000 on the road at the start of 1908. Though the Model T was initially rather costly, it was designed for ordinary people to drive every day. It possessed a 22-horsepower four-cylinder engine and was built of a new type of heat-treated steel pioneered by French race car manufacturers, making it lighter and stronger than its predecess
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