This Womens Day, discover how Bertha Benz ensured we got to see the first ever motor car and how her historic 1888 road trip ...

Karl Benz was a design visionary whose first fascinations ... He struggled to market the car to potential investors and buyers who were happy with their horses. Fortunately for Karl, Bertha ...

On this day in 1886 Karl Benz patented the first internal combustion engine on a motor car. The engine had been in development throughout 1885, and the first ever motor car was available for sale ...

Clean air rules were designed to protect the environment from harmful car emissions, but they had a surprising secondary ...

Cars have come a long way since German engineer Karl Benz developed the first ever gasoline-powered vehicle, the Benz Patent ...

after a merger of Karl Benz’s and Gottlieb Daimler’s efforts. Their first models were the 10/35, the 16/50, the 400 and the 600, followed soon after by the SSK, a roadster sports car designed ...

Its predecessor companies were founded by Karl Benz and Gottlieb Daimler, who separately produced what could be considered the world’s first modern cars in 1885-1886. Today, Mercedes produces ...