Before supercars, SUVs, and electric vehicles, there was one invention that changed the world forever,the automobile. In this ...

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

The 1893 Benz Victoria was Karl Benz's first four-wheeled automobile and the first to use a horizontally opposed piston engine.

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

Who invented the automobile? The answer depends a little bit on your definition of the word. The first practical gas-powered carriage was built by Karl Benz, who later merged his company with Daiml… ...

Karl Benz is the man regarded by most as the one who invented the automobile. The uncertainty comes from the relatively big number of people who, simultaneously and in an uncoordinated effort ...

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 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 ...

It is perhaps no surprise that the first motorcar, the Benz Patent Motorwagen, looks like a tricycle. Cycles had been a childhood passion of German motoring pioneer Karl Benz (1844–1929).