Celebrating the First Car A Tribute to Automotive Ingenuity

The "Velocipede" which originated in 1886 can be regarded as the world's first automobile, despite being limited to three wheels. Daimler "riding car" from ... The first mass produced car, in the modern sense, was the 1901 Curved Dash Oldsmobile, built in Detroit by Ransome Eli Olds, who came up with ... In 1886, Benz created the three-wheeled motor car, known as the “Motorwagen." This vehicle often is considered the first truly modern automobile. The Benz Patent-Motorwagen is the World's First 'Production' Automobile. The three-wheeled vehicle was built by Karl Benz in 1885. Ferdinand Porsche, founder of the sports car by the same name, creates the Lohner-Porsche Mixte -- the world's first hybrid electric car. The vehicle is powered ... It is believed that Edgar Duryea and his brother Frank were the first to invent a gas-powered car with a two-stroke motor in the United States in 1893. Arguably Father Ferdinand Verbiest, a Catholic priest invented the first car in the world as it was powered by steam and only 15-inches long in 1687 for the ... An American-driven Thomas Flyer got stuck in Tomsk when the main gear broke down, which took four days to repair. So the first Protos of 1907, ... The Ford Model T, made between 1908 and 1927, cost less than other cars, but it was sturdy and practical. It ran well on dirt roads and fields because it could ... German mechanical engineer Karl Friedrich Benz invented and built a three-wheel “motorwagen,” today recognized as the world's first car.