Model: 1886 Benz Patent Motorwagen #101014
Make:Benz
Price:$98.9
Scale:1:18
Length:29cm
Wide:17cm
Height:19cm
Weight:0.55kg
Material:Tinplate 
Color:Saffron yellow

Additional DetailsThis is the car that started it all! Designed by Karl Benz, it was the first motor vehicle ever successfully powered by internal combustion. The car that began the legend of Mercedes-Benz. And now you can own the die-cast model of The World's First Automobile.

Associated StoryThe success of the company gave Benz the opportunity to indulge in his old passion of designing a horseless carriage. Based on his experience with, and fondness for, bicycles, he used similar technology when he created an automobile. It featured wire wheels (unlike carriages' wooden ones) with a four-stroke engine of his own design between the rear wheels, with a very advanced coil ignition  and evaporative cooling rather than a radiator. Power was transmitted by means of two roller chains to the rear axle. Karl Benz finished his creation in 1885 and named it the Benz Patent Motorwagen.

It was the first automobile entirely designed as such to generate its own power, not simply a motorized stage coach or horse carriage, which is why Karl Benz was granted his patent and is regarded as its inventor.The beginnings of the Motorwagen in 1885 were less than spectacular. The tests often attracted many onlookers who laughed mockingly when it smashed against a wall because it initially was so difficult to control.

The Karl Benz Patent Motorwagen (or Motor Car), built in 1885, is widely regarded as the first automobile, that is, a vehicle designed to be propelled by a motor. Benz unveiled it officially on July 3, 1886 on the Ringstraße in Mannheim, Germany.

The vehicle was awarded the German patent, number 37435, which Benz applied for on January 29, 1886. Following official procedures, the date of the application became the patent date for the invention once the patent was granted, which occurred later in that year.

Price: $98.90