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.

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Alan Mulally, Ralph Nader enter Automotive Hall of Fame; Induction ceremony July 21 at Cobo Center in Detroit; Bertha Benz surprised the world in 1888 with the first automotive road trip ...

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.