Approximately 15 million Ford Model T cars were produced between 1908 and 1927.
The first production Model T was built in 1908 at Ford’s Piquette Avenue Plant in Detroit. Demand quickly outgrew the small factory, so production moved to Ford’s Highland Park complex, where increasingly efficient manufacturing methods helped make the car affordable to ordinary households.
Ford introduced moving assembly-line production for the Model T in 1913. By 1914, production time had fallen dramatically, and the Model T’s price continued to drop. The car became a defining symbol of mass motorization: by 1918, roughly half of all cars in the United States were Model Ts.
The often-quoted figure is 15,000,000, though the final recorded total was about 15,007,034. Henry Ford and his son Edsel marked the end of regular production in 1927. The Volkswagen Beetle eventually surpassed the Model T’s production record in 1972.