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

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 ...

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 ...

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 Carl Benz Bertha Benz Motorwagen mercedes benz. About the author: Daniel Patrascu. Daniel loves writing (or so he claims), and he uses this skill to offer readers a "behind the scenes ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

Is Bertha Ringer getting a free ride into the Automotive Hall of Fame simply because she married the genius Karl Benz 144 years ago? Not at all.

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 ...