[GH85Carrera]

Originally Posted by Z-man

Cool picture, but you are incorrect in one aspect -- that was not the first automobile. Two years prior, in 1885, Karl Benz, one of the co-founders of Mercedes-Benz, built the Patent Motorwagen.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benz_Patent-Motorwagen#:~:text=The%20Benz%20Patent%2DMotorwage n%20(%22,patented%20and%20unveiled%20in%201886.

When working for MBUSA, there was a replica of the Motorwagen in my building, and I even saw one running around our campus from time to time.

Ford did not invest the first automobile. Benz did.

The caption is:

first automobile (Quadricycle) designed and built by Mr. Ford

I did not see it claiming to be the first car, just Mr. Fords first design. And the French always claim all inventions, like the airplane and the car and lots of other things.