On July 3, 1886, mechanical engineer Karl Benz drove the first automobile in Mannheim, Germany, reaching a top speed of 16 km/h (10 mph). The automobile was powered by a 0.75-hp one-cylinder ...

Karl Benz patented the three-wheeled Motor Car, known as the "Motorwagen," in 1886. It was the first true, modern automobile, meaning Benz is most often identified as the man who invented the car ...

Karl Benz completed the first version of his Motorwagen ... As expected for the world's first automobile, production was ...

The 1893 Benz Victoria was Karl Benz’s first four-wheeled automobile and the first to use a horizontally opposed piston engine. The 1896 Daimler Vis-à-Vis was the first automobile produced in ...

Karl Benz’s Patent-Motorwagen (patented motor car) is widely considered to be the first practical automobile. Designed in the late 19th century, it was officially patented in 1886, under patent number ...

Karl Benz, a direct contemporary of Flocken, unveiled his Motorwagen in 1885. Considered by many today to be the first car ever invented, that title belies the experimentation of those who went ...

O n January 29, 1886, Karl Benz patented the first automobile powered by a gasoline engine, marking a pivotal moment in ...

This Mercedes 37/95 Double Phaeton Torpedo is assumed to be the only one of its kind with this coachwork to have survived ...

Mercedes-Benz is one of the oldest automobile manufacturers in the world. In fact, many credit Karl Benz with creating the world’s first proper automobile in 1886. Suffice to say, if a company ...

but its story has roots in the first-ever automobile, the Benz Patent Motor Car. Namely, one of the company's founders, Karl Benz, created that car, spawning one of the most successful global ...