1903: Henry Ford creates Ford Motor Co. 1904: Ford builds the Piquette Avenue Plant in the Detroit neighborhood of Milwaukee Junction, just east of Woodward Avenue. The plant was made of brick and ...

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When Ford opened its Chicago plant in February 1924 on the banks of the Calumet River in the Hegewisch neighborhood on the city’s Southeast Side, it was the dawn of the automobile age and the mass ...

Everyone with even a passing interest in cars knows that the Ford Model T pretty much started it all, so when the company's current CEO, Jim Farley, declares that a “new Model T moment” is ahead, it's ...

Ford announced a new EV manufacturing process and platform aimed at producing more affordable electric vehicles. Ford's new "assembly tree" process is expected to increase efficiency and reduce costs, ...

The Model T was a revolutionary vehicle that is credited with changing how Americans made cars and drove them. This early vehicle was iconic for being mass produced in just 90 minutes thanks to Ford's ...

In 1907, Henry Ford announced his goal for the Ford Motor Company: to create "a motor car for the great multitude." At that time, automobiles were expensive, custom-made machines. Ford's engineers ...

There’s no doubt that you’ll instantly recognize clips from the video below, as they’ve been used over and over for more than 100 years to illustrate the development of the assembly line. But those ...