A guy named Karl Benz recently filed a patent for this here contraption, something he's calling a "Motorwagen." Read about the 1886 Benz Patent-Motorwagen in this first drive article brought to ...

What you're looking at is a replica of the original Benz Patent Motorwagen – the very first automobile ever made. Karl Benz invented it early in 1886, shortly before Gottlieb Daimler did the same.

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 ...

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 ...

Before supercars, SUVs, and electric vehicles, there was one invention that changed the world forever,the automobile. In this ...

Set your time machine to August 1888. It's hot, humid, and you're in a small German town enjoying a refreshing pint of hefeweizen when an unusual noise breaks the silence. It almost sounds like a ...

The Benz Patent Motorwagen is widely regarded as the first practical self-propelled motor vehicle. It is estimated that twenty-five of the original motorwagens were built between 1886 and 1893.

1886 Benz Patent Motorwagen. Original price: 600 imperial Deutsche marks for the prototype. Price, as tested: about $60,000. Powertrain: Gas-powered 0.954-liter, four-stroke, water-cooled one ...

Karl Benz had been developing the Motorwagen piece by piece since the 1870s, ultimately bringing it to market in the mid-1880s.

The Benz Patent-Motorwagen that is considered to be the first automobile received its official patent in 1886. HERE'S WHY MERCEDES-BENZ SOLD A CAR FOR A RECORD $143 MILLION Andy Warhol used this ...

1886 Benz helps island reaffirm its car ban. ... which sits between Michigan’s upper and lower peninsulas in Lake Huron, procured an 1886 Benz Motorwagen for a “re-banning” ceremony July 21.

The Benz Patent-Motorwagen was the world’s first internal combustion production car, its name inspired by the fact Karl Benz received the German patent for this radical new invention in 1886.