Later that year, the Benz Patent Motor Car, model No. 1, made its first public outing. ... In 1893, J. Frank and Charles Duryea invented the first successful American gasoline automobile.

The car was not invented in America, but we made it ours. We’re not talking here about technical innovations such as vehicle mass production or interchangeable parts or the electric starter.

Since their invention, cars have become a major part of people's day-to-day. In the U.S. alone, there were a total of 278,063,737 personal and commercial vehicles registered to drivers in 2021 ...

Karl Benz patented the three-wheeled Motor Car, known as the "Motorwagen," in 1886. It was the first true, modern automobile, meaning Benz is most often identified as the man who invented the car.

America has a long history building cars, with the first American automobile rolling onto the roads way back in 1893. Since then, automakers across the country have built some iconic cars like the ...