Who inventd the car?

Answer 1

The first "car" or auto as we would know it, single chassis, gasoline, four-stroke engine, was invented by Karl Benz of Germany, with a patent issued in 1885. Karl Benz was issued a patent for his invention because he invented a self-powered vehicle from the ground up, and didn't modify a horse carriage to be self propelled. Like the Wright Brothers in their aircraft efforts, Karl Benz used his knowledge of bicycle making to build his first Motorwagen. Less than a year later Gottileb Daimler and Wilhelm Maybach produced a four wheel, gasoline power, four stroke engine auto, also in Germany. Daimler-Benz is known better around the world as Mercedes Benz.

The Karl Benz Motorwagen didn't have a great start, resulting in onlookers mocking and laughter when it crashed into a wall, because it was hard to control. By 1888 Karl Benz was on the Motorwagen 3 and was selling it as the Benz Patented Motorwagen. The first two were sold in 1888, making it the first commerically sold auto in the world. The first to a German man, a second to a man in Paris, who then opened, arguebly, the first auto dealership in history in Paris.

Frank and Charles Duryea opened the first car factory in the United States in 1895 with the first successful car sold, with a four-stroke, four horsepower engine. The Duryea was built in Springfield, Massachusetts and the 1896 production run sold 13 units. They built their first prototype in 1893 and won the first automobile race in 1895. The company dissolved in 1898, but brother Frank moved to Peoria, opened another factory and made Duryea vehicles in three and four wheel configurations through 1927.

In the United States George Baldwin Selden filed a patent for an auto in 1895. Selden never actually built a car, instead collecting royalties off of his patent.