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.

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

This week in 1886, the German engine designer Karl Benz patented the Benz Patent Motorwagen, widely considered the world's first car.

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 ...

The forefather of all Mercedes was called “Patent-Motorwagen” and was an instant hit. Its creator Karl Benz was a bicycleenthusiast, also an engineer and a machinist.

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 ...

YouTube sim racer and IRL race car driver Jimmy Broadbent recently decided to take the automaker’s first car and, indeed, the first gas-powered vehicle ever, the 1886 Benz Patent Motorwagen ...

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 ...

They loved the Motorwagen in Munich and orders began to roll in. "Karl Benz is often given credit for inventing the automobile," wrote Lienhard. "Well, no one person invented the automobile.

The Motorwagen is considered to be the world's first automobile, as it was the first vehicle designed to run on an internal combustion engine. Karl Benz designed the Motorwagen in 1886.