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The 1886 Benz Patent Motorwagen, created by Karl Benz, is widely regarded as the world’s first true automobile. Powered by a single-cylinder, 2/3 horsepower engine, it was designed to be a self-propelled vehicle, marking a revolutionary departure from horse-drawn carriages. The Motorwagen featured a steel frame, large wire spoked wheels with hard rubber tires, and […]

A modern version of the Peel P50, Bamby microcars were built in Hull, England by Alan Evans. Initial marketing targeted the sale of this modern microcar to young drivers and housewives, but the cost of the vehicle (around £1,597) proved unrealistic for that market. Bamby production only lasted about one year – from its introduction

The Renault Fuego was introduced in 1980 and is considered a car of firsts – the Fuego introduced the first keyless entry fob in the automobile industry; was the first car to have remote stereo controls on the steering wheel; and was the first mass-produced four-seat sport hatchback fully designed in a wind-tunnel. Today we

The Alpine company was originally founded by Renault dealer and rally driver Jean Rédélé during the 1950s. The first Alpine A110 debuted in 1962 and became a successful race car, winning historic 1-2-3 finishes at the Monte Carlo Rally in 1971 and 1973. Unfortunately, public sales of the cars were slow and by 1973 Renault

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During the mid-1950s, Father Alfred Juliano set out to construct the safest car to ever be introduced in the United States. Juliano would call the car Aurora – a fully fiberglass bodied automobile with safety features decades ahead of their time. The car was slated to be launched in 1957, but an overambitious Juliano, a

This 1963 DKW F12 certainly doesn’t look like a production F12 due to its custom fiberglass sports car body. The original owner of this car designed his own sports car body, starting with a clay model, then creating his own body molds to form the fiberglass panels (all of which came into the collection with

Générale de Mécanique et de Thermique (GMT) produced the Rivelaine from 1980 until 1983. The company only produced the Rivelaine in this two-seat microcar body style, with small displacement engines and automatic transmissions.