The first car ever running live! The Benz Motorwagen (1885)

[@tdubblz]

I wonder what it must have been like to see an automobile for the first time back then? That must've been a trip.

[@Loulovesspeed]

I would guess that a bit of fear was the predominant emotion people experienced when first hearing and seeing this vehicle.

[@WitchKing-Of-Angmar]

@@Loulovesspeed there's been steam and electric buses in Manhattan since the 1860's. Stop being ridiculous. What is this the 11 the century, appalled women fainting over a mechanical geared driving transport, which has existed since the 12th century. Do you al know nothing about the ingenious gear systems and advanced cognitive motors all the way back. The animatronics of the 1400s that make it's a small world look primitive. You've been lied to about the past...all fucking, billions of you.

[@WitchKing-Of-Angmar]

@@Loulovesspeed yah, I wouldn't communicate with someone who knows what they are talking about and have known since they aquire common sense and life experience

[@Downtime_videos]

Bet the rich guys had the literal gold digger all up on them 🤣👌🏼

[@singhmaster4]

@@Downtime_videos or Hoes. 😂😂

[@randyhodder8186]

That flywheel and all that spinning stored energy......very impressive...

[@rickwilliams967]

What's truly impressive is that dude is sticking his hands right in there, and he still has them attached. Then that pocket of his like right next to it. Jesus Christ, I don't know how that dude is completely intact.

[@nassermj7671]

I need a fender before the guy behind me flattens it. LOL!

[@The1KATYPERRY1]

*applause* to Karl Benz greatly appreciated for his work, its beautiful! I would pay for a ride.

[@virenderdhanka761]

Old comment😍😍😍😍😍😍😍 😍😍😍😍😍

[@DickDebonaire]

I'm trying to find out if Karl Benz and Henry Ford ever met. Nothing popping up on the web. Does anybody know?

[@will79601]

love how the crank and rod are outside the engine

[@legoheimerda3rd]

u still remember this comment bud?

[@VEDE0NKBM]

?

[@charnnarongmeewan9342]

@@VEDE0NKBM ...

[@rubenhernandez4394]

@2D ANIMATOR lol yes the comment is like 10 years old, this comment is like history now

[@gsp49]

There are cars in the Tallahassee Auto Museum many of which have external cranks, and are still in running condition.

[@CaptCrewSock]

Good video, thanks for sharing. When Henery Fords Model T was produced and sold it was the job of the car salesmen to deliver the car to the customer and teach them how to drive which often meant the whole family which means the kids as well. The funny thing about this was the drivers learning to drive would shout WOE instead of applying the brakes.

[@robertbrawley5048]

I'm sure I have yelled the same thing driving forklifts and old farm tractors with shot brakes

[@lawrencejelsma8118]

Henry Ford's "model T" was the first real automobile rather than previous crap. It was said Henry Ford came up with a cylinder engine design improved upon but never replaced for gas engines leading to today's automobile. This steam engine crap is 1800s crap that never saw petroleum gasoline injection into cylinders technologies of the 20th century moved forward by Henry Ford.

[@wrAIth-AI]

@@lawrencejelsma8118 Ehh... he pioneered the assembly line, not the first auto.

[@lawrencejelsma8118]

@@wrAIth-AI ... Henry Ford pioneered ease in repairing engines and costs to purchase cars for masses of people by manufacturing thoughts vs like only for elite buyers only by designing a block and crankcase using more pistons. It can all be read in Wikipedia. Yes there was that movie "Chitty Chitty Bank Bang" showing more difficult gas powered and steam/electric powered cars but Henry Ford was the first to create an AC/DC generator not requiring any batteries but a crank start (giving more meaning to push starts). From since 1908 as the real car for many people to drive, by 1927 the gasoline engine car designs improved upon 20 hp and 40 mile tank distances new designs as roadways and gas stations opened up throughout America. Driver's Ed classes teach about that first street accident at an intersection of two model Ts.

[@gsp49]

I think they shouted WHOA, down south.

[@jk11463]

The advances in technology between then and the year 2020 is nothing short of amazing.

[@DickDebonaire]

Very true, not to mention the advances in aviation since 1903. Or the advances in telecommunications, computers, etc etc

[@diljitsingh3887]

Also what is amazing is, that this technology(engine) is being used in the world somewhere even now

[@nickharrison3748]

that is engineering...same with the phone...

[@singularity6761]

Especially if you consider that its an exponentially growing process.

[@forbiddenscience1970]

I think our technology has actually devolved, the electric cars of the 1800s had a range of 1000 miles on a single charge from a Mercury arc rectifier. See Baker electric cars and others.

[@Tryvaltor]

To think that this was the start of some of the worlds most silent and well built cars.

[@rickwilliams967]

And the start of machines ripping people's limbs off.

[@percussion44]

Toyota's?

[@SONOFAZOMBIE2025]

Open top, rear engine, rear wheel drive. Pretty sure everyone would think this was a modern sports car if the title didn't mention the date.

[@WTGRacing]

its basically a porsche 911 cabriolett

[@pontushaggstrom6261]

TheLeafySpring or a koenigsegg

[@SONOFAZOMBIE2025]

Yes, can't wait for the AMG version!

[@pontushaggstrom6261]

mmm. With awing on the back and tripple turbus.

[@fairyheli2]

Son of a Zombie it also has a KERS system judging by the enormous flywheel

[@johnwhitehead5457]

I used to cut grass with a mower that ran just like this when I was 10, in 1953. My father had to back it up to the car jacked up and engage the flywheel with the rear tire on the car to get it started. Rule #1 was not safety first. It was don't let it stall 100 yards from the car.

[@tothemax0729]

Safety second

[@AdventureZEP]

19??? That first car was invented in somewhere in 18s

[@Icetea-2000]

@Greglinski I care

[@Icetea-2000]

@@AdventureZEP yeah and the same mechanics were used for a long time, especially in rural areas

[@ROSS4422]

Sounds like it could have been powered by a hit & miss engine, a very cool old mower, no doubt.

[@aaron71]

That is both beautiful and terrifying up close! How much it shakes... imagine a fastener loosening while on a ride!

[@youbidoubidou]

This is a Benz Motorwagen modern REPLICA. The priceless original is in the Deutsches Museum in Munich.

[@hoedemakerbart]

louwman museum in Netherlands also has an original

[@hyzercreek]

I also have an original.

[@youbidoubidou]

I love the "rare footage" baloney in the description.

[@hyzercreek]

I made the original

[@Jeffrey314159]

There is one in the Nethercutt museum in Los Angeles

[@cep2378]

That is freakin' awesome. You have to love the elegance of it.

[@kevinlassure6214]

Imagine waking up late for work and having to launch 30x your engine to finally be able to go 😅

[@lorenzo9858]

Thats kinda relateable 😅

[@AniSepherd972]

lol

[@AniSepherd972]

@Young Donald tell that to the boss lmao

[@erickrichardson854]

Very correct this was a replica, the original is in a Museum and will never be taken outside to a big event and started like this. I was born in Germany and I have seen the original in a museum.

[@Uma-Bharat-India]

Please give the name of museum. How much distance from Berlin ?

[@evelluchia]

its really something to see a piece of history and in perfect running condition at that

[@distantlands]

Look at the condition and these replicars are actually quite common in Germany for many years. The original sits locked solid in a museum in Stuttgart with zero chance of ever going outside

[@jamescarter2188]

Sorry, original was burned in a museum fire early 20th century.

[@pauls5745]

+Percy Lipinski there is no "the" original like it is the only one. several originals still exist, possibly as many as 10 or a dozen, undocumented in private collections. one is in LA, at the Nethercutt museum

[@miguelcastaneda7236]

wonder if nethercut museum has one they have over 400 cars that are driven once a month its in glendale calif

[@MrFresh-uh3ed]

I know there are at least 3 museums in Germany that have one... maybe even more...

[@jamesmcinnis208]

"actually"

[@zeewin]

I reckon that is a replica now on loan to the museum in Le Mans 24, just been there and saw that beauty.

[@twunta]

That is interesting. This engine also seems to be a 2-stroke. The cam and crank should be turning at the same speed. What a cool engine!

[@planterion7969]

It says in the description that it is

[@larchman4327]

4 stroke. They were invented first. See the push rods for the valves. It doesn't seem to be running very good something must be wrong with it.

[@TheEmeraldMenOfficial]

@@larchman4327Description says 2-stroke. Also, it’s from 1886.

[@larchman4327]

@@TheEmeraldMenOfficial I looked up 2 stroke and it was invented in 1880. I was wrong. I rewatched it. I got bad info from docu some time back.

[@larryresnick2300]

You can easily see that the camshaft that opens the valves is turning at half the speed of the crankshaft. And two stroke engines do not have valves or camshafts.

[@robertalan2427]

Puts a whole new meaning to the word flywheel

[@timjones2750]

The AMG model had a 2 cylinder.

[@mariusufc1207]

+tim jones =)))))))

[@whirlybirdrc]

+tim jones I know its a joke but youre not very wrong :P in 1896 there was a 4 wheel 2 cilinder one :D

[@scottross617]

DING!

[@novi0974]

... the inventors of Limp home mode..

[@Pavlucco]

This is not an AMG. This is OMG

[@clementevaldez1271]

Beautiful and precious engineered ....glad they saved it to show the world that the mind and intelligence of man is not as bad like some people think....thank you for this wonderful machine

[@micksterboone4517]

Beautiful craftsmanship.

[@stevenk-brooks6852]

Viewer left high and dry: We get to see the motor running to the tune of the piston, but the car itself just sits there, still.

[@Rustaholic777]

I saw a car engine run but I never saw the car run.

[@lupeh8971]

8 ora i y 8k955o que me gusta y 84fs 5oo8tejtullkujk o4 lu r oí r rutas, y 4á7 w a87

[@ฟิโกโล่]

@@SThiel-Hamster what engine

[@850are2]

Yah.. i wanted to see this thing move

[@manobendrabordoloi4630]

Thanks for keeping it and upload to us

[@nihalanth]

Thing's all jacked up sittin' on 40" rims. History repeats itself.

[@TxJonathan]

Lmao best comment I've seen today 😂

[@kayEnt3rtainm3nt]

5 years later this comment is still great XD

[@cardtrix1970]

But it doesn't look nearly as cheesy(jacked up) as today's jacked up ugliness.

[@MaasHomes]

😂😂

[@emekaisuochi368]

@@kayEnt3rtainm3nt and 7yrs now

[@eltfell]

This car deserves a place on the Top Gear Cool Wall - "ice cool". Nothing can beat this, because it's genesis.

[@hurricanewinzz]

it got clocked at 100km per century

[@franciskoduplessis5304]

The start of a new era of the automobile! The wheel has come to stay!

[@wwjoeyd]

dang... that's amazing!.... makes me smile how far we have came

[@jamesmcinnis208]

We sure have came.

[@AmolDeshmukh9ghr]

I loved how the old vdo was re mastered from black and white to multicolour!

[@codydaniel8312]

I drive this car at 2 mph on every track in Gran Turismo. Best week of my life!

[@codydaniel8312]

Except it is.

[@codydaniel8312]

@@Keyaang Gran Turismo 4

[@itselfbookshelf8472]

@@codydaniel8312 Wait, really?

[@mahadevannarayanaswamy900]

Can't believe in just 130 years car industry has done this much development and growth... Unfortunately most of us can't and will not live another 100 years to see the future development..

[@electronicshelpcare]

wow, what's a video. at first, I thought that it will be flying away.

[@shakisyaboi991]

It's "what" not "what's" and yea me too

[@austing2737]

Lol I saw this and my thoughts jumped to "Bang Bang Chitty Chitty Bang Bang Our fine four fendered friend"

[@KaciCooperations]

Not even do that XD

[@Bombaykingtaj]

@@shakisyaboi991 000¹1q1

[@Jitendra-lz2xf]

@@KaciCooperations kkk

[@keisha989]

Thank god someone invented the starter motor

[@surojit555]

magnificent work of art

[@williemoon7522]

first ever running engine .. wow !! thats good footage for over 130 years old ....

[@brickstunram9391]

Keyless start way before it was a thing 😂

[@GospelOfTimothy]

This was before they invented thieves

[@indridcold8433]

That has been a reappearing thing in automobiles for a long time. There have even been retrofit kits to put in keyed ignition cars many times on the market. When I bought my 1997 Jeep Wrangler TJ new, I installed a keyless ignition system that I bought from a RadioShack catalogue. It still works and people seem confused about how old my Jeep having a keyless ignition. Keyless ignition is just a gimmick. There is nothing special about it. There are no RadioShack stores today. But, I am sure a retrofit kit can be bought for any vehicle today somewhere.

[@clayvianwilliams7741]

😂😂😂

[@clayvianwilliams7741]

@@GospelOfTimothy 😂😂😂😂😂 for real

[@Achieve.cookie]

15 years old videos , recommend by youtube on 16.12.2022

[@juanbattiste2565]

1 cylinder, all mechanical, forerunner of them all. No this vehicle is not a drag car, not a drifter or a muscle car...this vehicle is the father of them all.... without this great invention ur 800 hp, wheel standing, drifter wouldn't have been...

[@MrWheelright]

not quite correct,,,google sigfried marcus

[@Zaroonkhan6071]

Juan Battiste ls swap it

[@riazhassan6570]

Beautiful piece of machinery

[@edisonelias6797]

Eficiência, Arte,Beleza dessa Réplica maravilhosa! Germany,Deutchland, Alemanha : alta tecnologia e a melhor Mecânica do mundo!!!!!!!!

[@amirmoezz]

The lesson here makes me humble; nothing is perfect, it always moves toward perfection.

[@GenericGene]

We are at a time in history 100 years down the track where the excitement of Karl Benz, Henry Ford and his Motor Car, Alexander Graham Bell, Guglielmo Marconi, Thomas Edison and his wonderful inventions & others that paved the development of the 20th Century has been reinstalled into the hearts and minds of those engaged in the development of technology passing into the 21st Century.

[@AniSepherd972]

most of them were assholes

[@muhammadhadi88]

is it weird, I found this monke uplifting and inspiring for us all?

[@samlauer8855]

Still better than a Prius

[@samlauer8855]

Because it would cost too much

[@legoldspy6851]

Oh shit a Prius guy

[@sjohnson6141]

nah

[@bobthelanternguy8640]

no one will say in a 100 years what a cool prius. not like this horseless carriage

[@hoosierdaddy757]

Except the Hemi Prius, that one's pretty cool.

[@brentfisher902]

Modern cars have electric start, some cars have crank start, lawnmowers have recoil start...so I'd call the method of whirling a flywheel around until the engine starts the 'Dervish start'. Whirl Me Around.

[@leifgiering]

Does it have Bluetooth?

[@blingX19]

It does indeed, along with Power assisted steering, Air con, sat nav etc.

[@ONRIPRESENCE]

The sarcasm! haha. Surround sound included?

[@justinanderson8758]

OJB back up camera optional? Oooo can I get one with stripes^^!!!

[@ONRIPRESENCE]

Hahaha

[@nateshvarts4816]

Good one

[@jonsdaniel]

Wow dream car man look at that .425 hp crazy revs loud as hell!!!!!!!!!

[@jamescarter2188]

1. 1886 is the date of the original vehicle. 2. Looks like one of the 25 replicas built by Daimler-Benz apprentices in the 1980s as a tribute to the original for the 100th anniversary of the motor car. 3. First Gasoline powered automobile.

[@lfin386]

The replicas were built in England by James Bentley Engineering. One is in the Haynes International Motor Museum in Somerset, England.

[@jamescarter2188]

The one at Haynes was built by a british engineer from patent documents early in 20th century.

[@rickhudson6743]

I feel honored just to witness this.

[@yetanotherjohn]

I love the way the very oldest engines sounded like a breathing animal.

[@mspenrice]

+Jack Gamboa A modern one still sort of does, albeit kind of at a faster rhythm... when you open the hood, take off the silencer and the air filter, and stand a bit further back because of the higher compression and stronger fuel mix making a louder noise. They tend not to last very long if you do that though.

[@stwrthnn]

+Jack Gamboa Ya, they kinda gasped for air.

[@mspenrice]

Still do. It's just a bit smothered.

[@stwrthnn]

+mspenrice Ya, but with revs of a modern multy cylinder engine it's a little harder to distinguish. Apples and oranges, friend.

[@dewaldsteyn1306]

A breathing animal? If a animal breathes like that it might be sick!

[@The_ScIgacz15]

that's how the legend of cars, bikes, and of corse many more and combustion engine has began

[@DavidKern-c1y]

We have one of these at our California Automobile Museum. I haven't seen a lot here but it does inspire me.🥸

[@man_on_wheelz]

Anyone remember acquiring this car and the 4-wheel version in Gran Turismo?

[@jackd.flippin6656]

I remember that. It was hilarious driving around with an astonishing top speed of 11 mph. Which was alot in 1886. :-D

[@man_on_wheelz]

Jack Flippin lmfao I could never fully get around even the smallest track, my attention span wouldn't let me haha!

[@pauls5745]

I drove it reverently lol and was proud to have it :-) I wish it existed in Forza for Xbox, then you could screenshot it

[@MUISHAGGY572]

Yeah I remember I use to do like 5 minutes on the quarter mile test strip 😂 but I loved the thing.

[@diennuoc824]

Hoang is very impressed with you. You are wonderful. Aesthetics, technology, intelligence 3 in 1 your talent. Thank you for sharing with everyone. Wish you always happy, more creative success.

[@juniorfio1196]

you know that the first speeding ticket was cause by a guy going 8MPH on a 2MPH speed limit. probably not

[@SethCocker05]

Crazy to think that car’s older than me 😧

[@Louie1157able]

Wow, it's in mint condition! Must've been garage kept.

[@elektronischerliebhaber]

It is not the original Motorwagen from 1886. Unfortunately it was destroyed. Mercedes did rebuilt one in 1903 which we see in the video

[@waynemetevia7983]

What a magnificent machine.

[@gkdresden]

This was not the first car. The really first car was build by the mathematician Ferdinand Verbiest in 1672 as a toy for the Chinese Emporer. It was allready driven by a steam engine. About 100 years later came Nicolas-Joseph Cugnot with his artillery tractor. By 1784, William Murdoch had built a working model of a steam carriage in Redruth and in 1801 Richard Trevithick was running a full-sized vehicle on the roads in Camborne. In the first half of the 19th century there were allready a number of steam driven cars on the roads like the two-seated Phaeton in 1838, one of the first sports cars, or the London steam busses in 1816. The first gasoline car came allready in the late 1850ies. It was build by Jean Joseph-Etienne Lenoir, who also invented one of the first internal combustion engines. He improved on that engine so it would run on petroleum, attached it to a three-wheeled wagon and traveled 50 miles. The first electric cars came in in 1890. Until 1910 we had a mix of steam cars, electric cars and gasoline cars. From 1910 until 1920 the gasoline cars pushed the other concepts more and more away.

[@butters4596]

Thank you for that information. New York was set up to run electric vehicles until greed showed it's face with gas.

[@josephujiadughele6035]

Actually, the first ever human moved vehicle was made in Senegal by a school drop out named alli junior in 1245. It works by the mechanism method of oil free-rolling smoke powered protruberrance where the smoke power pushes the metal body over a free friction oil tyres system. It doesn't climb and so must be pushed up. Longest distance travel was from Senegal Dakar to mecca greeting the ottomans tribes. The purge of the Ghanaian kosoko tribe killed this vehicles cos they saw it as competition to their horse trading.

[@gkdresden]

@@josephujiadughele6035 this is really early. There were also some spring powered vehicles in the 16th century but this was earlier. There is also not much energy to be stored in a spiral spring. And human physical work is needed to load the spring.

[@gkdresden]

@@josephujiadughele6035 I am a little bit surpriced about the fact that the first practical engines were not based on turbine principle. Turbines came very early in human technological history. I guess it was difficult in the antique to make a transmission to get the engine speed down to useful numbers. The ancient spur gears were not useful for turbine speed. They had allready worm gears but they have lots of friction and you need also a freewheel gear to use a worm drive to operate a vehicle when it runs faster than the turbine speed.

[@acp865]

Whether you’re right or wrong does not matter. You’re the type of kid who would get his butt whupped multiple times by classmates immediately following the end of the school day.

[@kens97sto171]

No, internal combustion.. They have one of these at a local Benz dealer where I live. Its wild looking seeing the crankshaft and piston rod exposed like that. 954cc making approx 1HP at 400RPM. Check Wikipedia for more info

[@ryant5886]

That isn't the original Benz motorwagen, the original is in climate controled storage. The car in the video is most likely one of the replicas made between 1986-97. ;)

[@pauls5745]

true, it's one of about 2000 replicas made and still available for about $23k

[@viperstrike3827]

starting an atv with the pull rope has a very similar feeling just pull slowly until you feel the end if the comression stroke then pull with all your might and hope it does not mess up your shoulder

[@1952myke]

Then someone had a bright idea !! we could make this gadget, go places !!!

[@kelliebrooks9094]

I remember this car...an its so impressive the hand spinning fly wheel start crankshaft weight hand fly wheel start what a wonderous feature mercedes so cool for a beginning clever engineering...i drove a 1994 420sel to my house 65...75 ..85 ..95 mph...not even a sensation of it was moving the car was so smooth...completely blew me away again....howd they do that the ride was si smooth an i like BMWs....

[@distantlands]

Except for one problem, this is a replica!

[@airsoftmp5a4]

Go and find us a 130 year old original and make a video of you starting it.

[@distantlands]

It's in Stuttgart. Only a very few VIPs and heads of states get to drive it.

[@alexc7864]

Percy Lipinski no one gets to drive it

[@thefatfrier]

Percy Lipinski Nobody can drive it. It cannot start and has been in the same place and position for decades

[@nightlightabcd]

+Percy Lipinski - I was wondering if it was a restoration or a recreation.

[@thomasowens6041]

Just consider the genius it took to create this.

[@tws983]

She should start her own car ya know, women's rights and all.

[@tdaddy6097]

Me 2 movement!!🤣😂💪🏿💪🏿👍🏿👍🏿

[@naeemakhtar9733]

Today we are amazed to see that the people of that time were beautiful, intelligent and hardworking.

[@kenupcmac]

Paul Walker : Nos i need Nos ^_^

[@jb0482]

Hahaha

[@nassermj7671]

That once simple machine now does everything but cook my burger.

[@bobsilver3983]

Does it have posi?

[@MrExciter2222]

what a hell of a way to start the car

[@PaulyRenzeth]

Still better than your VTech.

[@iWerli]

+Renzeth Bulawan you make me cringe

[@iWerli]

***** how does yours not make you cringe? also my pic is 3 years old LOL

[@iWerli]

***** fair lol

[@AR15.666]

Renzeth Bulawan but one question when does the V tech kick in yo

[@claudemountain6035]

***VTEC

[@thetman0068]

Talk about a screaming (or perhaps coughing) metal deathtrap! That open flywheel could seriously bust up things a guy doesn't wanted busted up.

[@tinaj9038]

Germans are still the best mechanical engineers

[@RiaRadioFMHD773]

Tina J Then Japanese, then Swiss.

[@seancarter5607]

European

[@Kaputnik11]

just as long as they don't work with diesels ;)

[@TheAnalXylophone]

+kaputnik11 OM605/606.

[@Kaputnik11]

TheAnalXylophone I'm sorry, I don't understand.

[@TruRepublican]

Beautiful design for starting from scratch.

[@vasool82]

Fucking love historic stuff like this

[@tslotaluminium]

I wonder if there is a record of who the first unlucky individual was who lost an appendage to that magnificent flywheel

[@tomskrustkalns7362]

will that engine fit in my Honda?

[@twistedyogert]

+T Bone Why, you saw how hard it was to start, imagine doing that in -20 degree weather. In fact, the gasoline driven automobile probably would have gone out of style if it were not for the electric starter. At least your Honda has one.

[@SupraMsR]

your honda will fly!

[@SupraMsR]

lol...

[@freyjagunnar1532]

world's first automobile,first brakes,first seat belt,first airbags,first radio,first independent suspension,first headlights,there was no vehicles,no wonder all us and rest of the world would have been still using horse drawn wagon!

[@MrGoldenwaffler]

Would be somewhat inconvenient to start when your already running late for the big boardroom meeting, eatin breakfast on the go, coffee in hand ...

[@butre.]

it would have been faster to run, this model had a top speed of about 8 mph downhill with the wind at your back

[@foreverwood1963]

or if someone is after you

[@tea4all]

春日歩 The only good thing is it doesn't get tired, like you or your horse.

[@butre.]

tea4all not exhaustion, but overheating was a possibility

[@WTGRacing]

king butre with how low revving this motor is (idle is about 200rpm and top speed is around 600) there wouldnt be enough heat to break anything

[@davidreed3357]

Spinning that wheel sure beats a broken arm cranking an engine to life

[@jovendhillon9600]

52 seconds to start a benz!

[@peelypeelmeister6432]

Built so long ago and it sounds a hundred times better than any electric vehicle.

[@BUNCHofxs]

i guess marty mcfly and dr. emmit brown had fuel for the time machine in 1885 after all...

[@chronolegionnaire1168]

Great Scott!

[@pinkiesue849]

just needs 1.21 gigawatts!

[@BassGoesBoom1]

Don't think that thing would get up to 88mph though... 8.8mph at a stretch!

[@baymechanic1009]

only this was in germany

[@IARRCSim]

This would be more fun if they made it into a longer story about driving to general store to buy groceries or visiting a heritage village.

[@josemanuelpenagonzalez2775]

lindas maquinas !!!!

[@mrunique4871]

I'm sorry to burst your bubble but there were electric cars way before this contraption .

[@bliesberg]

The Motorwagen wasn't the first car.

[@bliesberg]

I guess it just depends on the video makers definition of a car.

[@Shindinru]

Pretty much. If I saw it for the first time, not knowing what it is, I'd call it a motor driven cycle (it's those very large diameter wheels that were popular on "ordinary" cycles of the time).

[@valiox7506]

Brian Liesberg it was the first car of its kind fired with petrol

[@rexultimatum2588]

Etzala gibts ne digge fedde Anzeige not even. Siegfried Marcus. George Brayton, etc. had already used "gasoline" in their automotive engines before benz.

[@STho205]

Yes there were prototype electric carriages in the 1830s, a rechargeable battery car in the 1840s and a French steam traction engine for moving artillery on roads in the 18th century. Car history: Steam then 50 years Electric motive then 50 years Internal combustion of Heptane/Cyclo hexane/Naphthalene gasoline mixture in the 1880s for cars, ships (donkey engines to start the big coal engines), railroad generators and experimental aircraft. Diesel and Kerosene motors.

[@ImperatorZor]

Its an adorable little machine

[@nyzen2074]

Does the car have radio? Cuz I wanna hear despacito!

[@is1amizationbyimmigration262]

Can you imagine all of the safety related Lawsuits that thing would generate now?

[@youbidoubidou]

The first self-propelled vehicle ran in 1769! Search KZbin for: Cugnot

[@hyzercreek]

+youbidoubidou It didn't carry any people. The first car was the London Steam Carriage made by Trevithick in 1803

[@mspenrice]

+youbidoubidou Not a car, though. Or in other words, a self powered equivalent to a horse-drawn passenger carriage. The steam fardier was basically a farmer's cart with an extra wheel, a couple of cylinders and a steam boiler slung out front. Essentially a truck, rather than a car. Daimler's motorcycle also ran a little before this was built (and indeed before the often-forgotten prototype 4-wheel truck Benz also made before the wagen), but that wasn't a car either.

[@hyzercreek]

mspenrice Horse manure. It was a car.

[@youbidoubidou]

Nerb teh n00b - Yes, I knew about Leonardo Da Vinci's automovile but it did not carry anybody. Anyway he was an absolute genius and is a hero of mine . I had the chance to see his art & drawings up close in Paris & Florence.

[@nebojsa1976]

+youbidoubidou First car was made 18th year before Christ. Heracle made it. You sit on it and you needed to eat a lot of beans. And then you start farting as much as possible and gas just moves you.

[@stevesurffff]

It's so amazing look this in movement, it's History!,.... I can't believe how Bertha Benz could travel over a Hundred km with this machine,.. really amazing!

[@strangelee4400]

It's been thirteen years... here is your thumbs up. Enjoy!

[@RetroAmateur1989]

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[@henrikebruns9349]

This is the very first car. The first electric CAR was built by Andreas Flocken in 1888 (Wikipedia). All things before that are considered as VEHICLES, like the electric vehicle built by Werner von Siemens in 1882.

[@henrikebruns9349]

@For Nach The first self moving carriage was built by a German over 100 years before steam carriages came around. It was invented by the Nuremberger Hans Hautsch in 1649 and it was powered by a „clockwork-like machine“

[@witherstorm861]

First car history:What Was The First Car? A Quick History of the Automobile for Young Peopleby William W. Bottorffcugnots.jpgSeveral Italians recorded designs for wind driven vehicles. The first was Guido da Vigevano in 1335. It was a windmill type drive to gears and thus to wheels. Vaturio designed a similar vehicle which was also never built. Later Leonardo da Vinci designed a clockwork driven tricycle with tiller steering and a differential mechanism between the rear wheels.A Catholic priest named Father Ferdinand Verbiest has been said to have built a steam powered vehicle for the Chinese Emperor Chien Lung in about 1678. There is no information about the vehicle, only the event. Since Thomas Newcomen didn't build his first steam engine until 1712 we can guess that this was possibly a model vehicle powered by a mechanism like Hero's steam engine, a spinning wheel with jets on the periphery. Newcomen's engine had a cylinder and a piston and was the first of this kind, and it used steam as a condensing agent to form a vacuum and with an overhead walking beam, pull on a rod to lift water. It was an enormous thing and was strictly stationary. The steam was not under pressure, just an open boiler piped to the cylinder. It used the same vacuum principle that Thomas Savery had patented to lift water directly with the vacuum, which would have limited his pump to less than 32 feet of lift. Newcomen's lift would have only been limited by the length of the rod and the strength of the valve at the bottom. Somehow Newcomen was not able to separate his invention from that of Savery and had to pay for Savery's rights. In 1765 James Watt developed the first pressurized steam engine which proved to be much more efficient and compact that the Newcomen engine.The first vehicle to move under its own power for which there is a record was designed by Nicholas Joseph Cugnot and constructed by M. Brezin in 1769. A replica of this vehicle is on display at the Conservatoire des Arts et Metiers, in Paris. I believe that the Smithsonian Museum in Washington D. C. also has a large (half size ?) scale model. A second unit was built in 1770 which weighed 8000 pounds and had a top speed on 2 miles per hour and on the cobble stone streets of Paris this was probably as fast as anyone wanted to go it. The picture shows the first model on its first drive around Paris were it hit and knocked down a stone wall. It also had a tendency to tip over frontward unless it was counterweighted with a canon in the rear. the purpose of the vehicle was to haul canons around town.The early steam powered vehicles were so heavy that they were only practical on a perfectly flat surface as strong as iron. A road thus made out of iron rails became the norm for the next hundred and twenty five years. The vehicles got bigger and heavier and more powerful and as such they were eventually capable of pulling a train of many cars filled with freight and passengers.

[@larrynorsworthy8582]

very informative. thanks.

[@MrWheelright]

the first so called iron rails were timber covered with iron sheeting

[@MrFlaschleer]

It was the first modern successful car. It's like evolution, you have different branches which failed, only some of them were successful and still live on. Like Mercedes-Benz who build the first modern car. Who knows? Maybe a dinosaur civilization built the first car and now it's lost after millions of years. Or let me modify the question, 'What was the first car in the galaxy/universe?' So your answer isn't correct either.

[@rexultimatum2588]

Mr. Belvedere Not really, because rechargable, *practical* electric automobiles were already created before, and very well could of been the standard. Gasoline was only favored over electric by the industry and as such Benz's car was the first "production" car. He didn't invent the "car" but he popularised it at least the form of (fuel)engine. Then Henry Ford popularised it even more and made it common to the everyday man when he introduced the automotive assembly line for Mass production of cars.

[@2cozmick25]

Sitting there with pencil and paper and coming up with an automobile. Now that's Ingenuity , engineering call it what ya want its genius.