Bertha Benz may just be the coolest road tripper to ever drive this planet. As anyone who has ever been married will tell you, sometimes, no matter how supportive your partner can be, you just ...

Bertha Benz changed automotive history by packing her two teenage sons into a car and driving to her mother’s house. It doesn’t exactly sound impressive, but the year was 1888. A 65-mile road ...

Bertha Benz helped to prove that her husband had created probably the single most important invention in the history of transport Why is it that perhaps the most important car journey ever ...

Among these pioneers was the incredible Bertha Benz, to whom motorists owe a great deal. From the 1860s, steam, gas, petrol, and electric cars began to emerge in the workshops of inventors ...

When Bertha Benz drove off in husband Carl’s motorized invention 125 years ago, she had no idea she would be driving into history. Hers was the world’s first long-distance drive and the first ...

Taking a husband's car without asking can result in a flaming row but when Karl Benz's wife did it 125 years ago, she ignited the start of the motoring age, writes Joe Murphy Lady driver ...

Is Bertha Ringer getting a free ride into the Automotive Hall of Fame simply because she married the genius Karl Benz 144 years ago? Not at all. Bertha Benz earned her place in the Hall with one ...

And it turns out Bertha Benz knew exactly what I'm talking about. Bertha Benz's name likely sounds a little familiar. And really, it should. Her husband, Carl Benz, was the German car engineer who ...