When Henry Ford assembled his first car in 1896, he mounted a small one-cylinder gasoline engine on a frame fitted with two pairs of bicycle wheels: that was the first ford engine that came to life, designed on a kitchen table in Henry Ford’s home in Detroit. And for the first car manufactured in Ford Motor Company, the Model A, they engineered a flat-two engine that could output eight horsepowers.
But of course, those times are long gone. The automobile industry evolved swiftly and gave birth to all sorts of engine types, among which the V-shaped, Inline, and Flat triumphed