WICHITA, Kan. (KWCH) - Before 1908, automobiles were generally unreliable, inefficient and unaffordable. That changed when Henry Ford introduced the Ford Model T. The first one left the factory on ...

The story of the Model T is central to how Detroit became the Motor City. Here are some fast facts about Ford Motor Co.'s early days, the Model T and early factories. 1903: Henry Ford creates Ford ...

In this series, we celebrate special interest groups. Whether you get together to play tennis, board games, take long walks, eat lunch, create art, connect with your neighbors or gather with friends, ...

Cast your mind back to a time when the automobile was still considered a novel invention. The Benz Patent Motorwagen debuted in 1886, representing more of a technological curiosity than anything. The ...

When you think of classic, trend-setting vehicles, the grand-daddy of them all is, of course, the original Ford Model T. While this lovely piece of 1908 technology wasn't the first automobile ever ...

In a high-security room on the third floor of a factory in Detroit’s bustling Milwaukee Junction industrial neighborhood in 1907, six men and a 14-year-old boy changed the world. In less than a year — ...

Charlevoix — In the 1920s, the Ford Model T transformed America. Bringing affordable, personal transportation to the masses, “Tin Lizzies” — as Model Ts were fondly nicknamed — established Detroit as ...

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, ...

Pioneering automobiles typically do very little in terms of what we consider "conventional design choices," and the Ford Model T is no exception. Perhaps nowhere is this exemplified more than the ...