The company traces its roots to Carl Benz who set up the foundations of the company in 1871.

I am driving a replica of the Motorwagen, the automobile patented by Carl Benz 125 years ago.

Many lived in Karlsruhe, where Carl Benz was born and studied.

This was about six months after Carl Benz received a patent in the United States for a "self-propelling vehicle."

Theodor Bergmann sold his automobile activity to Carl Benz in 1910.

Just like the world's first petrol-powered automobile (1885, Carl Benz) it was a three-wheeler.

He told us, then, that it had been Carl Benz who had engineered and built the first practical automobile propelled by an internal combustion engine.

How do I know there was a Carl Benz?

I don't see Carl Benz in this room but I believe he once existed.

Carl Benz, the inventor of the automobile, was one of the pivotal figures of engineering.