For decades, it has quietly been present in virtually every car on the planet.

On January 29, 1886, a German engineer named Karl Benz changed the world forever. He filed a patent for his gas-engine-powered vehicle, which we now know as the Benz Patent-Motorwagen, and this was ...

When was the first car made? Get to know the history and inventors behind the first automobiles.

The idea that Henry Ford invented the first gas-powered car has stuck for over a century, but like many things in history, the truth isn’t so straightforward. Ford’s first ride didn’t go the way ...

History loves a winner, but car culture has always had a soft spot for glorious losers. The kind of cars that sold like warm beer at an ice hockey game, yet somehow managed to leave fingerprints all ...