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 ...

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 ...

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

Karl Benz was a design visionary whose first fascinations were with locomotives and bicycles. His 1886 Benz Patent Motorwagen was the first automobile to generate its own power, ...

Karl Benz is the man regarded by most as the one who invented the automobile. The uncertainty comes from the relatively big number of people who, simultaneously and in an uncoordinated effort ...

And on Jan. 29, 1886, pioneering automotive engineer Karl Friedrich Benz was awarded patent No. 37435, for a Fahrzeug mit Gasmotorenbetrieb, an auto car with a gasoline-powered engine.

The very first practical automobile was the 1886 Benz Motorwagen created in Stuttgart by Karl Benz. That first car was powered by a small gasoline fueled engine that ran on a four-stroke cycle ...

It Takes The Benz Patent Motorwagen More Than 1 Hour To Go Around The Nürburgring In Assetto Corsa. Considered the first modern car, it's time to see how much progress has been made since 1886 ...

Its creator Karl Benz was a bicycleenthusiast, also an engineer and a machinist. As a tribute to that Duane Clark has designed a “Patent-Motorwagen” replica.

Image via Mercedes-Benz Fortunately for Karl, Bertha believed in her husband’s creation even more than he did. At that point, the Motorwagen had only tooled around for short distances.

As you may have guessed by the name, Bertha was married to Karl Benz, the engineer who developed his Patent Motorwagen in 1886, which many people feel to be the most direct ancestor of modern ...