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 ...

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. Henry Ford in his ...

Brett T. Evans has more than a decade of experience driving, writing about, and evaluating automobiles. His early career comprised writing about pre- and post-war classic cars, as well as late-model ...

Henry Ford famously designed the Model T to be simple, reliable, and affordable for the masses. What he didn’t design it for was forced induction. But a century later, the mad scientists over at ...

The ferry broke down at exactly the wrong moment for everyone except Henry Ford. On June 8, 1909, two stripped-down Ford Model Ts rolled onto a little wooden ferry at Glasgow, Mo., and crossed the ...