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Who built the first car?

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The next year, Dutch designer Jacobus Spijker built the first four-wheel drive racing car; it never competed and it would be 1965 and the Jensen FF before four-wheel drive was used on a production car. read more

Many suggest that he created the first true automobile in 1885/1886. Below is a table of some automobile firsts, compiled from information in Leonard Bruno's book Science and Technology Firsts (Detroit, c1997) and ThoughtCo.’s History of the Automobile. read more

If anybody can claim to have built the world's first car, it's Frenchman Nicolas-Joseph Cugnot, whose invention was a steam-powered gun carriage. read more

But the first person to take a steam engine and place it on a full-sized vehicle was probably a Frenchman named Nicolas-Joseph Cugnot, who between 1769 and 1771 built a steam-powered automobile more than thirty years before the railway's first steam locomotive. read more

The very first self-powered road vehicles were powered by steam engines, and by that definition Nicolas Joseph Cugnot of France built the first automobile in 1769 — recognized by the British Royal Automobile Club and the Automobile Club de France as being the first. read more

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