This Badass Woman Took the World’s First Road Trip—and Stole Her Husband's Car to Do It . Bertha Benz may just be the coolest road tripper to ever drive this planet.

The year was 1888, and the car a Benz Patent-Motorwagen Model III. The trip in itself became historic as the first adventure of its kind, in effect meaning that Bertha Benz, a woman, became the ...

Her husband, Carl Benz, was the German car engineer who created what would one day become Mercedes-Benz. According to that very same car company , Bertha, born in 1849, married Carl when she was 23.

Benz applied for and received the patent for the car, and his wife, Bertha, embarked on the first road trip — a 112-mile trek from Mannheim to Pforzheim and back — with her kids two years ...

In what is today recognised as the first road trip ever undertaken, Bertha Benz and her two sons, Richard and Eugen, left Mannheim at dawn on 5 August 1888, their destination the town of Pforzheim ...

Carl Benz's wife, Bertha, without the knowledge of her husband, ... a Benz car was competing in the first organized auto race, the Paris-Rouen, winning fifth place, per Mercedes-Benz.

In 1888, Bertha Benz, wife of automotive inventor Karl Benz, set off on a groundbreaking trip. A pioneer and investor in her own right, Bertha took the world's first combustion engine-powered car ...

Benz, in 1888, became the first person to drive an automobile a significant distance — 66 miles. Anderson, in 1902, created the first working windshield wiper blade.

Her husband, Carl Benz, was the German car engineer who created what would one day become Mercedes-Benz. According to that very same car company , Bertha, born in 1849, married Carl when she was 23.