tarihin Ford Model T ya ruɗe da tarihin masana'antar kera motoci, amma tasirinsa ya yi yawa ga tsarin mulkin demokraɗiyya na mota, ta yadda za ta sami, daidai, taken mota na ƙarni. XX.
Kodayake ba ita ce mota ta farko a duniya ba - wannan ita ce Motar Carl Benz - Model T, wanda aka ƙaddamar a cikin 1909, ya ƙare har ya zama alhakin haɓaka shigar da motar, har sai an yi la'akari da samfurin alatu, a cikin al'ummar Amurka a lokacin farko. kwata na karni na 20.
Ta hanyar sauƙaƙe matakai, albarkatu da wadatar da shuka a Highland Park, Michigan, ƙananan farashin samarwa ya ba Ford damar bayar da ingantaccen abin hawa mai araha.
A cikin 1915, yawancin kwafin an fentin su baƙar fata, mai rahusa, launi mai bushewa. Don haka sanannen magana ta Henry Ford:
Motar tana da kowane launi in dai baki ce.
Biyan kuɗi zuwa wasiƙarmu
Ford Ts na farko ya auna sama da kilogiram 500 kuma an sanye shi da injin silinda huɗu na cikin layi na 2.9 l, haɗe da akwatin gear mai sauri biyu, mai kusan 20 hp na iko (zuwa ƙafafun baya). Lambobin da, ko da yake ba abin mamaki ba ne a kwanakin nan, sun isa su kai gudun kilomita 70 / h. Amfani zai iya kaiwa 18 l/100km.
Chassis ɗin ya ƙunshi tsarin spars na "U" kuma dakatarwar ta kasance madaidaiciyar axle (gaba da baya), ba tare da masu ɗaukar girgiza ba.
Lokacin da ya fara fitowa, Ford Model T yana kusa da $ 825 (kimanin $ 22,000 kwanakin nan). A shekara ta 1925, farashin ƙarshe ya riga ya ragu zuwa $260, kuma samarwa ya wuce raka'a miliyan biyu.
A cikin shekaru da yawa, Model T ya ɗauki nau'i-nau'i da yawa da nau'i-nau'i daban-daban na jiki. A ranar 26 ga Mayu, 1927, kusan shekaru ashirin bayan an fara samarwa, an dakatar da Ford Model T. A wannan shekarar, alamar Amurka ta sayar da motoci kasa da 500,000. Model A ya maye gurbin Ford Model T, wanda ko da yake ya sami nasarar farko, ba shi da (kusan ko ma daga nesa) tasirin magabata.
Ford Model T a Portugal
An ƙaddamar da shi a cikin 1909, Model T ya isa Portugal bayan shekaru biyu ta hannun António Augusto Correia, wanda ya yi rajista da farantin N-373. A shekara ta 1927, an sayar da motar ga Manuel Menéres, kuma a cikin shekarun da suka biyo baya ta shiga cikin abubuwa daban-daban irin su Rallye Internacional do Estoril ko Rallye de Santo Tirso.