The flat-four boxer engine design is well over 100 years old, but it's still going strong, with applications in a number of major modern models.

While Dieselgate killed any remaining enthusiasm for diesel cars in the U.S., heavy duty diesel trucks are still going strong ...

This week in 1886, the German engine designer Karl Benz patented the Benz Patent Motorwagen, widely considered the world’s first car. Benz emerged from a childhood spent mostly in poverty to ...

But the flat engine didn't go away. Since Benz's first opposed twin, there have been four-, six-, eight-, 10-, 12- and 16-cylinder boxer engines, powering everything from motorcycles to family ...

His 1886 Benz Patent Motorwagen was the first automobile to generate its own power, which was made with a two-stroke engine and transmitted to the rear axle by a pair of chains.

A guy named Karl Benz recently filed a patent for this here contraption, ... Rear engine, RWD, 2-pass, 0-door roadster Engine 0.9L/0.66-hp 2-valve 1-cyl Transmission 1-speed ...

On this day in 1886 Karl Benz, along with his wife Bertha, patented their Benz Patent-Motorwagen, with a new and revolutionary power source – the internal combustion engine.

Karl Benz was a design visionary whose first fascinations were with locomotives and bicycles. ... which was made with a two-stroke engine and transmitted to the rear axle by a pair of chains.

While Karl Benz’s patent drawings of the first practical automobile showed only a small portion of the engine’s cylinder housing ahead of the rear axle, when the 25-car production run began in ...

Karl Benz News from United Press International. Karl Friedrich Benz, (November 25, 1844 – April 4, 1929) was a German engine designer and car engineer, generally regarded as the inventor of the ...

Daimler celebrates 125 years since Carl Benz’s Patent-MotorWagen – Click above for high-res image gallery. Back on January 29th of 1886, Karl Benz filed the patent for his “vehicle with gas ...

Technological innovation is nothing new to the brand with the three-pointed star. Ever since Karl Benz drove his Patent Motorwagen for the first time more than 130 years ago, Mercedes-Benz has ...