Dubbed the "Tin Lizzie", the Ford
Model T was the first mass-produced cheap car. Estimated to have cost about £2,000 in today's money, the Model T used assembly line technology and the standardisation of parts to create economies of scale that hadn't been seen in the motor industry before. Only available in black, around 15 million were built by the time production stopped in 1927.
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