First car made

July 23, 1886

ON this day, Gottlieb Daimler gets into his new invention. It looks like a horse-drawn buggy, but it was a one cylinder 1.1 HP engine mounted in the back seat. The first car got up to 16 km/h.

While 17 years later, in 1903, Ford Motor Company sold its first car — a model A to Dr Ernst Pfenning of Chicago. It was a twin cylinder combustion engine.