Ford Motor Company Trivia

Few names are as tangled up with the story of the automobile itself as Ford. This quiz tours the highlights of a company that reinvented how cars were built, then spent the next century building cars people actually wanted to drive.

From Quadricycle to Assembly Line

Henry Ford's first invention wasn't even a Ford — it was the 1896 Quadricycle, a bicycle-wheeled contraption he built in a rented shed before Ford Motor Company existed. Seven years later he founded the company that would bear his name, and by 1913 his factories had introduced the moving assembly line, a change that shrank the time to build a car and made the Model T affordable for millions of ordinary families.

Icons, Both Loved and Forgotten

• The Mustang's 1964 debut at the New York World's Fair kicked off the "pony car" era.
• The GT40 was built specifically to beat Ferrari at Le Mans, and did.
• Not every idea landed: the Edsel, named for Henry Ford's son, became a byword for market flops within a couple of model years.

Still Rolling Today

Ford's F-150 has anchored American truck sales for decades, while Lincoln carries the company's luxury ambitions forward long after sister brand Mercury quietly closed its doors.