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There's a reason people love Benz so much. The main one is that they've been in the personal vehicle game since 1885, when Karl Benz sparked the Patent-Motorwagen. In 1986, these babies hit the ...

We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. The Benz Patent Motorwagen is widely regarded as the first practical self-propelled motor vehicle. It is estimated that twenty-five of the ...

Mercedes-Benz is no stranger to wild lap times at the Nurburgring, but has it always been so? In a sense, yes. YouTube sim racer and IRL race car driver Jimmy Broadbent recently decided to take the ...

A guy named Karl Benz recently filed a patent for this here contraption, something he's calling a "Motorwagen." The idea is that you burn a substance called gasoline through a small ...

Some folks lust after the first car they ever owned. What if you had a chance to own the first car ever built? Perhaps you'd settle for a replica of that car? We have just the machine for you then ...

Like many late-20th-century kids reared in the industrial orbit of Detroit, we had well-meaning but somewhat uninterested teachers who tossed around the standard line that "Henry Ford was the father ...

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We drive an exact working replica of the first-ever internal combustion automobile, the legendary 1886 Benz Patent Motorwagen. Not only is this one of the most important cars we have ever driven here ...

From the December 1986 issue of Car and Driver. One century and a few zillion miles by automobile later, the thrill of self-propulsion hasn't diminished an iota. We know this is an absolute fact now ...

Discover the complex history of the automobile, from early self-propelled vehicles to Karl Benz's invention of the first modern car, and explore the key innovators who shaped the cars we drive today.