This week in 1886, the German engine designer Karl Benz patented the Benz Patent Motorwagen, widely considered the world's first car.

The three-wheeled Patent-Motorwagen was built by Karl Benz in 1885 and sold for 600 German imperial marks, or just over $4000 in today’s money. The world received its first look at Benz’s ...

Karl Benz had been developing the Motorwagen piece by piece since the 1870s, ultimately bringing it to market in the mid-1880s.

The engine had been in development throughout 1885, and the first ever motor car was available for sale by mid-1886 for $1,000 (something like $130,000 at 2020 prices).

On July 3, 1886, mechanical engineer Karl Benz drove the first automobile in Mannheim, Germany, reaching a top speed of 16 km/h (10 mph). The automobile was powered by a 0.75-hp one-cylinder ...

In 1888, the wife of Karl Benz, Bertha, took her husband's Model 3 and drove it for 106 km (66 miles). It was the world's first long distance drive.

A guy named Karl Benz recently filed a patent for this here contraption, something he's calling a "Motorwagen." Read about the 1886 Benz Patent-Motorwagen in this first drive article brought to ...

On January 29, 1886, Karl Benz patented the first automobile powered by a gasoline engine, marking a pivotal moment in transportation history. This invention not only revolutionized how people ...

Arguably the car company that invented the car, Merc can trace its origins right back to Karl Benz and his Patent Motorcar of 1885. Nowadays, this German giant offers a veritable smorgasbord of ...

After Karl Benz created his Patent-Motorwagen, he went on to create its successor, the Benz Velo. But the Velo was still a bit pricey and hard to build, so the second car in the lineup, along with ...

The 1893 Benz Victoria was Karl Benz’s first four-wheeled automobile and the first to use a horizontally opposed piston engine. The 1896 Daimler Vis-à-Vis was the first automobile produced in ...