Paris designers introduce the Empire dress, a narrower cut, high-waisted dress that does away with the tight curves, luxurious bosoms, and narrow waists of the S-shaped dresses that had dominated women's fashion.

The Ford Motor Company begins twenty-four consecutive years of industry sales leadership.

Ford introduces the Model N, a two-passenger runabout with an efficient four-cylinder engine priced at $600. Cycle and Automobile magazine proclaims it "distinctively the most important technical event of 1906."

The Chadwick Six, a six-cylinder car, is introduced by Lee Sherman Chadwick.

At Ormond Beach, Florida, a Stanley race car captures the world's land speed record at 127 MPH.