yes and no, he created the internal combustion gasoline engine, but there was steam powered vehicles before
they were automobile manufacturers.
Karl Benz invented the automobile in Germany.
Karl Benz invented the worlds first automobile, but Henry Ford improved it. So Karl Benz is the inventor.
Karl Benz
Carl Benz invented the gasoline engine, but not the automobile.
Mercadies automobile
no
In Detroit by Karl Benz
1885, Karl Benz
Karl Benz is generally regarded as the inventor of the gasoline-powered automobile
Karl Benz designed and built the world's first practical automobile to be powered by an internal-combustion engine.
Others had been credited first with motorizing bicycles and different types of vehicles, but yes the automobile as we see it today was invented by Karl Benz.