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1st car
Karl Benz introduced the first ever vehicle powered by an internal combustion engine in 1885, and got a patent for it in the following year. -
2nd car made
It is steam-powered, achieved speeds of 38 mph, was a veteran of four London-to-Brighton runs, and participated in the world’s first auto race in 1887. It got 20 miles on a tank of water. -
porsche
At the age of 18, Ferdinand Porsche boarded a train in North Bohemia, Austria-Hungary (now Czech Republic), and headed for Vienna to embark on his first job. Despite having no formal engineering education, Jacob Lohner, at his Lohner-Werke, employed Porsche to develop an electric powertrain for his coaches -
corvette
The first generation of Corvette was introduced late in the 1953 model year. Originally designed as a show car for the 1953 Motorama display at the New York Auto Show, it generated enough interest to induce GM to make a production version to sell to the public. First production was on June 30, 1953.[4][5][6] -
8th car
This 2016 version represents a step up in mechanical refinement and aerodynamic optimisation. Just last weekend it recorded a clean sweep at the famous Bathurst 12 hour endurance race in Australia. There has always been that niggling feeling that when McLaren first introduced the P1 and the 12C a few years back that their F1 results suffered, and have been getting worse ever since. If 2015 represented rock bottom,
