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

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 ...

Her name was Bertha Benz and she was not only married to Karl Benz, the man credited today with inventing the car, but as a lady of independent means she had provided much of the funding for the ...

She took the kids out for history's first long "road trip" in 1888. While Karl Benz designed and built the cars, Bertha sold them, made on-the-road repairs and even suggested improvements.

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 ...

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 any ...