I Drive The Oldest Car In The World: Here's How It Works!

[@Sheeeesk]

As someone who was born In 1811 I can say this was a very very accurate replica

[@diamond_h0us]

Doubt.

[@dguy0386]

yall joke but as recently as 2006 there were still some people around who were born in the 1880s

[@marcvslicinivscrassvs7536]

​@@dguy0386 they would've been in their 40s when WWII that is nuts

[@dguy0386]

@marcvslicinivscrassvs7536 actually they would have been in their mid 50s by the end of the war! it is pretty crazy to think about!

[@marcvslicinivscrassvs7536]

@@dguy0386 yep you are right! I need to hit the hay long day

[@ronvanr5359]

Hard to get any more classic then this

[@dguy0386]

not without horses anyway!

[@armosthelivingsekizou]

Well Cugnot's prototype maybe

[@Montgomery_N_Pottichen04]

@@armosthelivingsekizouthat’s like driving a castle

[@memorimusic420]

steam or electric cars lol ;)

[@cottonsoxx1677]

By hard, you mean impossible

[@Nikioko]

3:14: The first long distance drive was by Bertha Benz, Carl Benz' wife, and her two sons without her husband's knowledge, in August 1888. On the way, she ran out of fuel and had to buy ligroin in a pharmacy, which by this is the oldest filling station in the world.

[@rjclarkonthetube]

The Pharmacy (Apotheke in German) is located in Wiesloch. I live near this city in Germany. The Pharmacy is now a museum.

[@Ovahlls]

She drove 66 miles

[@rickmcclellan7280]

@@Ovahlls The first ROUTE 66 🤔

[@togowack]

every planet in our solar system had cars on it before our fake recorded history. We haven't made any records.

[@RedGarnett-n2p]

​@@togowack what is this fakeness you speak of the moon landing or what

[@grayharker6271]

I'd be willing to bet, whoever built the replica, did it from an original set of plans. Not only are they front runners in engineering, Germans keep impeccable records!

[@nighthawk0077]

Yeah I'd say so. Mercedes built it

[@typhoon2827]

Built by an English bloke. He's made about 500 so far. Mercedes has bought them all.

[@hyzercreek]

@@typhoon2827 The English were making cars for 81 years before Benz made this one. Look up the 1803 Trevithick London Steam Carriage and see

[@typhoon2827]

@@hyzercreek yes, thanks 👍🏻

[@fatitankeris6327]

​@@hyzercreekSteam is the key word.

[@Kiwi-eu3sf]

I am writing a story about this car and needed to have the mechanisms explained. As someone who knows nearly nothing about cars and motors in general, this was super helpful and concise. Exactly what i needed. Thank you for showing this wonder of a car!

[@unknown-fg9yf]

Share the story!!

[@okaro6595]

Just 15 years later Wilhelm Maybach and Paul Daimler built the Mercedes 35 hp that could go 75 km/h. It is known as the first modern car. It was quite rapid development.

[@itzamia]

The Simplex

[@Defensive_Wounds]

Everything is when you look at it!

[@itzamia]

@@Defensive_Wounds Especially the development of nuclear weapons and going to the moon

[@worldcomicsreview354]

​@@itzamia From the first powered flight to first moon landing comfortably inside a lifetime. A very long-lived person could have been born just before the first powered flight on Earth and lived to see the first powered flight on Mars! (Well, actually, there was a very brief steam-driven unmanned powered flight in the 19th century. Maybe. The machine could have been glding)

[@dickrichard626]

"First modern car" is an oxymoron. 😂

[@SquirminHermanthe1eyedGerman]

I was born in the mid 1960s just a couple hundred kilometers from where that car was invented & I have heard tales of my great grandfather may have worked in the Benz factory in the early 1900s but I cant verify any truth to that ✌💖☮

[@sixstanger00]

Fascinating that almost 157 years later, modern cars still consist of many of these same components (just more refined). - Differential - Oil lubrication system - Flywheel - Battery/ignition box - Water coolant reservoir

[@samuelbhend2521]

-Wheels! They're still quite useful on even a modern Car 😎

[@sixstanger00]

@@samuelbhend2521 Well, I mean.....wagons had wheels, soo...

[@crazy4254]

Seat!

[@powcod7455]

Even the entire concept of the combustion engine has been refined. 157 years later and we are still using combustion engines for our equipment

[@powcod7455]

​@@sixstanger00cavemen had a form of wheel

[@amazingjason455]

The oldest car I’ve driven was a 58 corvette. Shifter and engine were perfect but the brakes didn’t work. I felt like I was in a one man parade. I was giddy for hours.

[@bannedbycommieyoutube5time920]

I always like how Jay Leno upgrades to a dual master cylinder, and if the drum brakes kind of stink, he puts discs on, but keeps the drums just in case anyone wants to convert it back to stock.

[@svpracer98]

I've moved my mom's 51 chevy truck around the block and it's such a different experience compared to the cars of today

[@Luis-cr1tw]

That Mercedes you don't need brakes...just use your feet to brake😅😄

[@gowdsake7103]

No American cars brake or handle well

[@RaptorsVideos]

@@gowdsake7103 what car do you drive?

[@cprendon3]

Consider that when this car was invented there were no paved roads and not even smooth roads. So even with those large-diameter but narrow Wheels it would be quite a bumpy ride.

[@MrBulky992]

Are you sure there were no paved roads? Modern roads of compacted stone ("macadam") began in the UK at the very beginning of the 19th century (John Loudon McAdam) and spread rapidly to the USA (1830s) and continental Europe. Admittedly, tar was not added to the macadam surface to create "tarmacadam" (tarmac) until 1902 (another UK invention, Edgar Purnell Hooley). This vehicle would never work on a dirt track.

[@SRDuly2010]

The Romans have entered the chat

[@dalpro29]

I've seen one of these close up in the Haynes museum in UK. Fabulous piece of motoring history. To see footage of one in action is epic. Thanks for this video it has made my day.

[@petersimpson5859]

Bertha Benz was pretty much the R&D department. Without her, her husband Karl may have given up on his invention.

[@Nikioko]

She drove the vehicle from Pforzheim to Mannheim and back, and thus made it famous. Especially due to her little pit stop in Wiesloch.

[@valde3336]

@@Nikioko Basically making her the marketing team as well.

[@parthsavyasachi9348]

Yepp if someone who developed something important is married then its always the wife who developed it and didn't get the credit. 😅😅😅😅

[@Leofwine]

​@@parthsavyasachi9348 eventually, Bertha did receive credit: There is a Bertha Benz Memorial Route that roughly follows her 1888 journey, and the textbook I had in elementary school showed a painting of her driving the car (a later revision with wooden wheels and casing), along with a text that I read over and over.

[@parthsavyasachi9348]

@@Leofwine we are talking about rnd as in invention and design of vehicle. No doubt about her importance in rest of the things.

[@Defensive_Wounds]

1:20 - turn to the right to go left... Reminds me of playing GoldenEye007 on the N64 back in the late 1990s, inverted controls!

[@R.Nelson]

This was Totally Awesome Tommy. Really glad you got to experience this part of Automotive History!!! Right on Tommy!!😎

[@MrRedtaco11]

That was pretty cool. Weird not seeing computers, wires everywhere. It was so simple.

[@bldontmatter5319]

Probably gets 50 mpg too

[@gremie442]

Ok daily drive it lmao

[@Maximus20778]

​@@bldontmatter5319it def doesn't get 50mpg

[@andersrydberg70]

These replicas are built in England! We visited the Yourshire motor museum outside Leeds about ten years ago and were surpriced to run into the assembly area. They were started building the replicas to the one hundred aniversery and had continued to build them since, the were working on number 125 by then.... All parts were sourced in Britain.... Even the tyres were manufactured in this location The only parts that were not correct was as we were told, the piston they used a Ford Cortina piston and the spark plug thar was 😊a modern plug hidden inside a fake cover.... Amazing wood work from oak Great job by the three men in the assembly. Anders Rydberg Sweden.

[@anonymuswere]

this is probably the one Polyphony scanned in for Gran Turismo. it and Daimler's effort were available to drive in game. I couldn't get either to cruise at more than 6mph/10kph, though. any more than that, and they bounced off their rev limit in game :P

[@diedertspijkerboer]

An interesting predecessor of this was Richard Trevithick's London Steam Carriage from 1803(!), which was the first self-propelled passenger vehicle. However, this was itself preceeded by Nicholas Cugnot's steam-powered road vehicle from 1769, which was designed to pull cannons at walking pace. However, Benz' Patentwagen was the first car with an internal combustion engine to be successful. And in that sense, it's the ancestor to most modern cars. Incidentally, the first electric car also already emerged in the 1800s.

[@fnersch3367]

I had a 1985 Mercedes and thought that was old. One of these replicas was on display at San Simeon in California for many years.

[@oilersridersbluejays]

Bertha Benz’s trip with the car is a very interesting read. History can be fun!

[@KK4CNM]

I love it! Kudos to tbe engineers at Mercedes Benz who rebuilt this. What a wonderful little contraption!

[@RealMrNails]

Nothing like a good, nervous, German laugh. 😂

[@josephujiadughele6035]

Hitler laughing

[@gregc9220]

That's awesome! I would love to see a drive video and reaction of TFL with a all original Model T, I bet someone out there would let y'all use the car to do a video.

[@davidbauer1485]

Challenge: A 16 year old who just got their license drives up in a Tesla. My 90 year old mother, who has and never will use any computer, drives up in a Model T. Then they have to switch and drive a simple course. Who wins?

[@gregc9220]

@@davidbauer1485 that would be a awesome video to watch lol!

[@dinkidavis]

@@davidbauer1485 I know how each of these vehicles operate. My Guarantee: Tied race, at the starting line. Neither car would move an inch. 😆😂

[@Leofwine]

I'd rather try my hands on a Model T than a Tesla.

[@cleverlyblonde]

This comment aged very well given their recent videos 🤩

[@vespelian]

The 80's were so cool. 😎

[@RedGarnett-n2p]

🤪🤪🤪

[@TheDennys21]

Wrong 80's 🤣

[@vespelian]

@@TheDennys21 Which ones did you have in mind?

[@morganwright224]

@@vespelian 1780s

[@wanterbaik]

Do you mean 1800s. And its not cool. There is no turbocharger nor underseat subwoofer on that car.

[@garychaney5484]

I like the pointer on the tiller to indicate which direction you will go!

[@kevinblock2307]

That was cool! Tommy surely gets to drive some interesting vehicles

[@OldThomMerton]

As I remember, the woman who drove that vehicle was Karl Benz' wife.

[@bdog1323]

Could only imagine the parade for the National League champions Chicago White Stockings (now the Cubs) & the American Association Champions St. Louis Browns (now the NL St. Louis Cardinals) in their own motorcades after they ended the Pre-Modern World Series in a 3-3 tie.

[@LiarNobody]

There's an 1886 model of this vehicle that's displayed in a museum that still functions and runs, even after nearly 140 years. It's a testament to the idea of our forefathers having built things to truly last.

[@randomvintagefilm273]

Can you imagine not hearing of this thing and your living way out on the prairie. One day you look out and see this going down the road with no horse in front of it!😅

[@thebigguy8306]

Way cool, thanks, Tommy. Times they are changing, like our cell phones with more memory than the first moon landing (640k), and our lawnmowers and UTVs having more power than the first autos. My oldest driven, 48 Buick Fastback, think 3-on-the-tree. Why can't the "Imagineers" at GM modernize some old styles (50s classics) to fit on standard frame (like Colorado WT), seems like a dime to produce and charge $20k-$30k?

[@solwidotnl]

The first moon landing guidance computer only had 4 kB of memory and ran at 1 MHz. Today's cheap household electronics usually have better specs than the Apollo computer. And smartphones are thousands of times more powerful and have millions of times more memory.

[@Rafael-kx6qu]

I think we can agree that the first car has a CVT gearbox 😅

[@endtimeawakening5557]

Truly awesome! These old machines are fascinating, paving the way for further developments in technology and innovation. Thanks for sharing this with us!!!

[@stefanodomeni]

5:39 his laugh was in time with the engine lmao

[@McIntyreBible]

3:45, that's an amazing contraption. This first car changed modern history.

[@paradiselost9946]

the first cars were basically ignored. noone ever talks about etionne lenoir, or marcus siegfried. trevythick gets the odd mention but his was steam and doesnt count.

[@higueraft571]

@@paradiselost9946 Because they werent Viable, already responded, but see Etionne Lenoir as an example of "getting credit for someone else's work, because they did it better" :V

[@jensschroder8214]

You need someone to push you uphill and the brakes are not enough for downhill. In addition, there used to be bumpy roads and if something broke, the driver had to fix it himself. There weren't even any petrol stations, but petrol could be bought in the pharmacy.

[@tiggerlady6282]

Wow that’s amazing. My grandfather was born in 1896. He was with my great grandparents to travel with the horse and the wagon from New York to Wyoming then moved to Colorado. So I don’t know if they seen the oldest car.

[@cambs0181]

Would love to take this down to my local mercedes dealership for a full service.

[@mrripper2u314]

The Ultimate Driving Machine. 🇩🇪

[@logancook2826]

2:43 that was going insane above the wheel that ceeps things mooving sheeeesh

[@tourguideStan]

A German also invented the 'laufmaschine' (walking machine) or bike. It was 1817, the year after a famine across Europe. Many horses had died, so the inventor made several so that people could get around the district faster.

[@hyzercreek]

Nonsense

[@EazyDuz18]

nonsense

[@sihilius]

@@hyzercreek @EazyDuz18 The Draisine by Karl von Drais. Google it and learn about history, instead of writing uninformed comments!

[@guyonthecouch007]

It is quite elegant.

[@TheSacredCowtipper88]

Indubitably my old boy! Hurumpf! *Twirls mustache*

[@alecfoster4413]

Everything has a beginning! Cool!

[@michaeldesilvio221]

I'd love to see a modernized replica of this design. A car like this would be affordable, simplistic, easy to work on.

[@boilerhousegarage]

And never pass a ridiculous multitude of regulations. The Sinclair C5 was a super simple vehicle that tried to bypass technicalities in 1986, but was a massive failure.

[@tristonkent]

@@boilerhousegarage Technically this would be registered as a powered bicycle and not a car by today's standards. So it doesn't need to pass modern car regulations. You would be able to take it wherever bicycles are allowed to go on public streets. The reason it would be classified as a bicycle is primarily due to the three wheels.

[@boilerhousegarage]

@@tristonkent Depends on where. I was thinking of building a vintage car or bike but one that could meet the UK unlicenced, road legal exemptions. 3 or even 4 wheels would be fine, but it must have an electric motor, pedals that can move the vehicle and not be capable than more than 15.5mph. So an exact replica of the Motorwagen would never legally see the road, but you could adapt a few things to have it registered as something else.

[@automation7295]

@@tristonkent That would never happen in the US, the government would NOT allow that public roads. There one oldest car still allowed on public roads in Germany, but early cars are very slow they aren't even allowed to go on the motorways.

[@michaeldesilvio221]

@@automation7295 it just depends on where you live in America. It still is a free country where I live.😂

[@colincrooky]

I thought this was an upgrade from the Reliant Robin. Great video, thank you.

[@Paul-hl8yg]

Deffo! 👍😆🇬🇧

[@poppyneese1811]

How do I miss these, 10 months ago!😡 Tommy that had to be the coolest thing ever. Woman made the first long drive in one of these, but she never got it parked and the interior was full of receipts candy wrappers and Chick Fila bags and he husband spent 4 days cleaning it out and the petrol was on empty.

[@niteshades_promise]

it sounds just as expected🤤🍻

[@mattorama]

Imagine being the baller that rolled up in that when everyone else had a horse.

[@scottl.1568]

Just don't challenge any horse to a drag race 😮

[@Vatierville]

What an amazing video I saw a replica in a UK museum yesterday and it was so cool 😂

[@bradleymeyer9775]

How much did it cost when it was new ?

[@vasiovasio]

Great machine! Thank you for the video!

[@slapshotjack9806]

It’s crazy to think that the patent wagon and the car underneath the tent next to it are essentially the same thing

[@kartz2010]

5:02 "is there a break?"... He asked the question as an afterthought when the vehicle had already started moving 😂

[@David-vj8is]

7:10 dripping oil on the ground. As a collector of vintage stationary engines I am quite familiar with how messy these old engines are. They get oil everywhere. It's called a total loss oil system. Everything pu in goes out and is not reused. I am also quite familiar with pulling fliwheels or turning cranks to start engines. I do have a electricity generator (delco light plant) from 1922 with electric start...

[@pawelwas6164]

Great stuff! I love such engineering. For us it’s very simple, but back than such a breakthrough :)

[@Barley150]

Why did they stop making them? I want one!

[@Thelodis]

Imagine trying it on a real road and getting pulled over by a cop. Imagine how many tickets you would get. I would say "If it wasn't for this vehicle, you wouldn't have your cop car".

[@bradleypierce1561]

You forgot to mention that Bertha Benz stole that first car from her husband to drive a hundred kilometers across Germany. So actually the first long distance drive was a car theft.

[@kuronoch.1441]

Bertha Benz doing GTA only a short period of time before the invention of the automobile. Truly a classic.

[@debbiemilka2251]

Where does one put the coin to make the seat vibrate like what you see at county fairs after a tiring day of walking everywhere ? I didn'tknow it required a manual spin of the flywheel to start it. Cool.

[@BrianPetersen-l2w]

Love this series with Tommy on old vehicles!

[@puma0210]

You call an Uber. A driver with a top hat pull up on this.

[@kelvinhill9874]

I would LOVE to have a drive of this car. It would be super cool.

[@deejayimm]

He calls it the Patent Motorwagen, a replica built by Mercedes Benz, but just for those of you who didn't know, its actual name is the Benz Patent Motorwagen. So this is Mercedes-Benz building replicas of basically the first car ever, designed by one of their founders. Super cool.....

[@okaro6595]

It was designed by Benz. He never met Gottlieb Daimler who is the other founder and also inventor of the motorcycle.

[@hg60justice]

your title should say REPLICA of the oldest car if it's not original. it's newer than my car.

[@higueraft571]

The design itself is still the oldest, replica or not.

[@hg60justice]

@@higueraft571 oldest patented. a few examples were older, but not produced in quantity.

[@Juutube989]

Does that wheel spin forever when rotate it?

[@arinwendeeriadorskaya6917]

It is the first internal combustion powered car. Steam powered cars existed even earlier.

[@celtoroma4013]

From Sidi Carnot the inventor of Thermodynamics.

[@higueraft571]

Not THE first, but the first viable one, for sure.

[@Silverback_GMT410]

That’s awesome dude!

[@digitalcamera3237]

Very cool Tommy !

[@mikekawalski2458]

OMG! You are so lucky! Living the dream!

[@vinny143]

You need to start another channel for antique vehicles 😁

[@Silverback_GMT410]

It’s called TFL Classics for a reason.

[@vinny143]

@@Silverback_GMT410 there's a difference between a "Classic" and "Antique"

[@vinny143]

@@Silverback_GMT410 Vintage Car: Manufactured between 1919 and 1930. Either a “survivor” or restored in conformance to the original manufacturer specifications Antique Car: Manufactured 1975 or earlier (>45 years old). Either a “survivor” or restored in conformance to the original manufacturer specifications Classic Car: Manufactured 2000 or earlier (>20 years old)

[@marcbee1234]

Now that was a blast !!!

[@Widkey]

Where can I get one of those horseless carriages?

[@KC-kp4vh]

Replica, okay, I was thinking “there is NO WAY.” So cool!

[@marguskiis7711]

Henry Ford admired Carl and Bertha Benz ideas and Ford T had pretty the same transmission like early Benz cars.

[@goober-b6f]

Looks good

[@УзеирМамедов-п6л]

Amazing design! Simplicity sold the idea of a car to a millions and millions!

[@pambradbury2814]

My Dad would have loved this!

[@thegamingchef3304]

Funny thing is modern day tractors are basically the same design...Atleast the Ventracs are. There are no pedals and every thing is done with levers. They do obviously have the typical steering wheel, but speed and everything is controlled by levers.

[@trento8397]

does it do burnouts? How fast does it go down the 1/4 mile?

[@KHolzer444]

Considering that it has similar power and top speed to a person, but more weight decreasing acceleration, I’d guess a quarter mile of a little over a minute. It would be a good race against a person or a recreational electric scooter

[@trento8397]

@@KHolzer444 😂

[@ab7_92]

Love 😘 Germany 🇩🇪 Mercedes ❤

[@dellinger71]

Well, the oldest still street legal car is from 1894, a Benz Victoria", and it's an original, not a replica.

[@benlap1977]

I wonder what is the fuel consumption?

[@ModelTMitch]

I believe it's about 24mpg or 10L/100km 😊

[@kartz2010]

It sounds like knocking on the door. In those days there was probably no door bell and so when this vehicle passed by the street everyone would open the door to check it out 😂

[@arrowsf11973]

the car was NOT made by Mercedes Benz it was made FOR Mercedes Benz. They were made in Elland west Yorkshire England. By a small team of men. my father did all the wood work on them all.

[@puchokoffie8152]

Lol

[@frankrault3190]

The first motorized car was built and driven in 1770 by Nicolas Cugnot. It was a steamer car. For many people a reason to disqualify it as a car, "for a car is only a car when it has a combustion engine fueled by petrol." Well. That would disqualify all electric cars as well that know no combustion whatsoever. By the way, in general, even a steamer car knows combustion, be it still outside of its cylinders. It doesn't matter what fuel makes a car move, as long as it's propelled by an engine. So, the Benz is not the first car.

[@astroking3043]

In 1912 there was showcased an electric car using the famous Edison battery, 1000 miles on one charge, the batteries still work today, if you can find one, they were Nickle iron alkaline very safe could not be over charged and safe if shorted. I used these batteries.

[@TheInkPitOx]

A car that old belongs in a museum

[@moped975]

Verbrenner waren nicht selbstverständlich: Schon vor WW1 fuhren in New York 1/3 der Fahrzeuge elektrisch! Wo wären wir heute ohne Öl-Lobby...?

[@denisandreipapuc6790]

How do You stop the engine?

[@scottl.1568]

I miss Gran Turismo 4😢

[@Stroheim333]

The only reason this vehicle wasn't designed to be the first motorbike, was because the size of the engine. This engine have the same power as my Piaggio Ciao from '86, designed to go 30 km per hour (but makes a little more). It sounds like nothing today, but I can drive from the south of Sweden to the north in five or six days with rest and sleep. That's good enough today, an impossible task back in the 19th century.

[@thecomment9489]

Wow, cool. You just got teleported 140 something years back into time to drive the world's first viable motor car.

[@hyzercreek]

The worlds first gasoline motor car

[@Anti3D-0]

that looks fun even by today's standard, can't imagine how groundbreaking it was back in the 1880s

[@PhilDrury]

I've wanted one of those for the longest of times.

[@MrBillsfishin]

What a great opportunity for you!

[@speed3971]

One horse does move pretty good.

[@wildman510]

Surprisingly quiet, was expecting it to go BANG BANG RATTLE RATTLE the whole time it was running

[@OzarksWildman]

Nice Mercedes! This is a cool video 👍

[@knutwalter5162]

It‘s not a Mercedes but the exact copy of the very first car invented by Carl Benz! The 1901 car made by Gottlieb Daimler was named Mercedes,the daughter of the dealer with Daimler Cars in Nizza to promote better selling there!

[@okaro6595]

@@knutwalter5162 Yes the Mercedes name comes from the Daimler branch. In 1926 Daimler and Bend merged into Daimler-Benz (now just Daimler) and decided to make cars with brand Mercedes Benz. Though the Mercedes 35 hp was made by Wilhelm Maybach and Paul Daimler. Gottlieb Daimler had died in 1900.

[@chuckvoss9344]

very interesting. thank you for sharing.