Ford has been using the EcoBoost engine for a long time now, and it's become one of the automaker's ubiquitous power units.

While Henry Ford and the Ford Motor Company helped shaped modern car production, it wasn't one of his cars that was the first mass-produced car in America.

On June 4, 1896, after years of experimentation and tinkering, a 32-year-old Henry Ford completed his first automobile.

Henry Ford's Quadricycle was notable in its own right, but Charles Brady King drove his own horseless carriage in Detroit first.

Introduced at the 1985 Los Angeles Auto Show, the Taurus eviscerated the boxy Granada it replaced. Ford "listened to its customers in developing the car," says Matt Anderson, of The Henry Ford museum.

So he had the first Ford truck built nine years after the first Model T car. Appropriately called the 1917 Ford Model TT, the next truck was the Model AA, based on the Model A car, and in 1935 ...