Nearly 100 years later, a handful of Velies have survived and there is an Official Velie Register that keeps track of all extant cars.

Before supercars, SUVs, and electric vehicles, there was one invention that changed the world forever,the automobile. In this ...

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

Technological innovation is nothing new to the brand with the three-pointed star. Ever since Karl Benz drove his Patent Motorwagen for the first time more than 130 years ago, Mercedes-Benz has ...

Karl Benz was a design visionary whose first fascinations were with locomotives and bicycles. His 1886 Benz Patent Motorwagen was the first automobile to generate its own power, ...

Karl Benz filed a patent for a three-wheeled vehicle driven by a gasoline engine in Mannheim, Germany, on that day in 1886, the same year Gottlieb Daimler completed his motorized carriage in ...

This week in 1886, the German engine designer Karl Benz patented the Benz Patent Motorwagen, widely considered the world’s first car. Benz emerged from a childhood spent mostly in poverty to ...

Without her, Karl Benz would have spent the rest of his life obsessively trying to get that motor up from 2/3 HP to a massive 7/8 HP. Thanks, Bertha. (sources: ...

Mercedes-Benz Group Media In the almost 140 years since Karl Benz first stuck a two-stroke engine on a steel tricycle and called it a car, the company bearing its name has had all sorts of adventures.

Bertha and Carl Benz on top of the 4-wheeler "Victoria" model in 1893. Courtesy of Mercedes-Benz. Just kidding. She really just informed him that the "first long-distance journey with his Patent ...