Daimler Motorized Carriage

The Daimler Motorized Carriage was the first car produced by the German engineers Gottlieb Daimler and Wilhelm Maybach, who founded Daimler-Motoren-Gesellschaft in 1890, and the first was sold in 1892. It grew out of their earlier work: a motorised stagecoach shown in 1886 was a purchased horse-drawn coach with an engine added, so it is not counted as a true automobile, and in 1889 they built a first car that did not adapt a carriage. The article places the story in the long dispute over who made the first automobile, since Karl Benz was granted a patent in January 1886 for a vehicle designed from the start as a motor vehicle, the Benz Patent Motorwagen.