The San Francisco Examiner advertises women's "pretty hats for Easter with ribbon" for $6.50.

U.S. automobile production reaches 63,500 units; there are 200,000 cars on the road.

Automaker Charles Duryea estimates for Motor Magazine that as many as half of the 515 companies that were producing cars in 1900 have gone bankrupt.

The Hupp Motor Car Company of Detroit introduces the Hupmobile.

William Durant sells 8,800 Buicks, second only to Ford in market share.

Louis Sullivan completes the National Farmers Bank Building in Owatonna, Minnesota.

12 Feb.

The New York-to-Paris auto race begins; it will proceed through Detroit, Cleveland, Chicago, Salt Lake City, and San Francisco, then via sea to Tokyo, through Vladivostok, Irkutsk, Moscow, Berlin, Bonn, and Brussels. After 169 days and 13,341 miles the lone American entry, a Thomas Flyer driven by George Schuster, is the winner.

12 Aug.

The Model T Ford is introduced, priced at $850.