The first practical car with a gasoline engine was built by Karl Benz in 1885 in Mannheim, Germany. Benz was given a patent for his automobile on January 29, 1886, and began the first production car in 1888, after Bertha Benz, wife, has been proven with the first long distance trip in August 1888 – from Mannheim to Pforzheim and back – that the coach really suitable for everyday use poor horse. Since 2008 a Bertha Benz Memorial Route commemorate this event.
Soon after, Gottlieb Daimler and Wilhelm Maybach in Stuttgart in 1889 designed a vehicle from scratch to be cars, trains are not equipped with a machine. They also usually credited as the inventor of the first motorcycle in 1886, but the Italian Enrico Bernardi, of the University of Padua, in 1882, patented 0.024 horse power (17.9 W) 122 cc (7.4 cu in) one-cylinder gasoline engine, fitted child’s tricycle, so at least the first candidate for a car,and the first motorcycle. tricycle Bernardi enlarged in 1892 to bring the two adults.