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Model T

American  

noun

  1. an automobile with a 2.9-liter, 4-cylinder engine, produced by the Ford Motor Company from 1909 through 1927, considered to be the first motor vehicle successfully mass-produced on an assembly line.


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With the Model T, Ford standardized placing the steering wheel on the left side of the cabin, dictating the design of American roadways.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 24, 2026

The November 2022 release of ChatGPT was AI’s Model T moment, with consequential gains in efficiency still to come.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 20, 2025

It opened in 1908, the year the first Model T rolled off Henry Ford’s assembly line.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 8, 2025

Ms Itooka was born in May 1908 – six years before the World War One and the same year that the Ford Model T car was launched in the US.

From BBC • Jan. 4, 2025

Someone should write an erudite essay on the moral, physical, and esthetic effect of the Model T Ford on the American nation.

From "Cannery Row" by John Steinbeck

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