First Petrol Powered Car -- Benz Patent Motorwagen

Mercedes-Benz traces its origins to Karl Benz's creation of the first petrol-powered car, the Benz Patent Motorwagen, financed by Bertha Benz[4] and patented in January 1886,[5] and Gottlieb Daimler and engineer Wilhelm Maybach's conversion of a stagecoach by the addition of a petrol engine later that year.

Years later they took their original creation out for a test drive.

Others believe that Siegfried Marcus, a German born, Austrian-Hungarian inventor was the first to use a gasoline engine in a car. They contend that Adolf Hitler had the records changed because Marcus was Jewish. Others say that Josef Ganz, who also was Jewish, invented the VW Beetle and was pushed aside by Porsche.

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