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TIL that when Ford released the Model T in 1908, it cost $825 (adjusted to about $28,000 in 2023). Despite the popularity (about 15 million would eventually be sold) Ford kept dropping the price over the years, and by 1925 the basic model cost $260, the equivalent of about $4,500 today.

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