When was the first car built?
The Brave Motorwagon
When was the first car built?
Picture a world with no traffic, no honking, no parking lots — just horses, dust, and the clip-clop of hooves. Now imagine the very first car coughing to life in the middle of all that. When did that happen? The answer is older than you might guess: 1886.
The honor usually goes to a German inventor named Karl Benz. In 1886 he finished a machine he called the Benz Patent-Motorwagen — which is just a fancy way of saying "the patented motor-wagon." It didn't look like today's cars at all.
