The first of Ingrassia's 15 cars with the greatest impact was, naturally, the first automobile mass-produced out of fully interchangeable parts: Henry Ford's Model T.
Introduced in 1908, it wasn't he cheapest car on the market (The Brush "Everyman's Car" cost $350 less), but the Model T was crafted out of a new type of steel, vanadium, that was lighter but stronger than traditional carbon steel. The car's four-cylinder engine was easier to manufacture, maintain and repair.
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The company was flooded with backorders, as sales grew exponentially year over year. Even if you have a lot of other priorities for instance, sports, extracurricular activities, etc., still you need to complete a senior project to graduate successfullyAnd in a move that was partly public relations' sake, Ford employees were given improved wages and hours, making the company's owner a working-class hero.
By 1916, sales of the Model T topped 700,000 a year, and by 1927, the last of 15,000,000 Model Ts rolled off the Detroit production lines.
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