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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Example Sentences

The hike includes an area where natural “white oil” bubbles up from the earth, which locals reportedly used to collect to fill their Ford Model T fuel tanks.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 10, 2026

A farmer who owned a Model T didn’t need a forge or metal lathe to fix his engine; he could simply order a replacement part—or cannibalize one from a wrecked car in a junkyard.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 5, 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

But now, a century after Bretz and his students drove throughout the Channeled Scablands in a Model T, mainstream geologists agree he was right.

From Seattle Times • Jan. 2, 2024

The Model T Ford truck of Lee Chong had a dignified history.

From "Cannery Row" by John Steinbeck