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 ...

This week in 1886, the German engine designer Karl Benz patented the Benz Patent Motorwagen, widely considered the world’s first car. Benz emerged from a childhood spent mostly in poverty to ...

Before supercars, SUVs, and electric vehicles, there was one invention that changed the world forever,the automobile. In this video, we explore the incredible story behind the first car ever made and ...

So on August 5th, 1888, she and her two teen-aged sons, Eugen and Richard, took off at dawn on the world’s first road trip without telling Karl or anyone else.

It’s totally alien to most of us today, but the Benz Patent-Motorwagen is the car that started it all – and today it celebrates its 130th birthday. Karl Benz applied for his patent January 29 ...

9 Sep 2018, 07:09 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / 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 ...

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.

Discover the incredible journey of Karl Benz, a poor engineer whose vision and determination gave birth to the world’s first automobile and founded the legendary Mercedes-Benz brand. From early ...

A replica of the world’s first automobile, the Benz Patent-Motorwagen, is being sold by Mercedes-Benz Classic. The three-wheeled Patent-Motorwagen was built by Karl Benz in 1885 and sold for 600 ...

The world marks the 125th anniversary of the invention of the automobile on Jan. 29. Karl Benz filed a patent for a three-wheeled vehicle driven by a gasoline engine in Mannheim, Germany, on that ...