So, in honor of women, I'd like to talk about one woman who's been a hero of mine for many years: Bertha Benz, the first person to take a real road trip in a private, petroleum-powered car.

Bertha Benz changed automotive history by packing her two teenage sons into a car and driving to her mother’s house. It doesn’t exactly sound impressive, but the year was 1888. A 65-mile road ...

Her husband, Carl Benz, was the German car engineer who created what would one day become Mercedes-Benz. According to that very same car company , Bertha, born in 1849, married Carl when she was 23.

Mercedes-Benz' Bertha Benz Tribute Film Is Strangely Dark And Feels Like A Trailer For A Horror Movie By Jason Torchinsky June 8, 2019 11:00 am EST Are you familiar with the story of Bertha Benz ?

Bertha Ringer Benz was born in 1849 into a rich family in Pforzheim, Germany. However, that was an age when women were denied access to higher education, despite her eagerness to learn how things ...

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.

When Bertha Benz drove off in husband Carl's motorized invention 125 years ago, she had no idea she would be driving into history. Hers was the world's first long-distance drive and the first ...

As for Bertha, she lived until 1944, dying at the grand old age of 95. Today you can go to Mannheim and retrace her steps by following the signs of the Bertha Benz Memorial Route.

OK, this is perfect: When Courtney Messenbaugh previewed the 2008 Mercedes-Benz C63 AMG (finding it enticing, to say the least), it just so happened to be Women’s History Month. This led her to ...