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.

The design and construction of the engines that power automobiles have evolved by both evolution and revolution over the ...

Karl Benz filed a patent for a three-wheeled vehicle driven by a gasoline engine in Mannheim, Germany, on that day in 1886, the same year Gottlieb Daimler completed his motorized carriage in ...

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 ...

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 ...

Founding father of automobile manufacturer Mercedes-Benz, Karl Benz can also be considered the father of the automobile ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.