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Invention of first steam powered road vehicle.
Jan 1779 - July 1884. Invention of first steam powered road vehicle.
Nicolas-Joseph Cugnot, (born September 25, 1725, Void, France—died October 2, 1804, Paris), French military engineer who designed and built the world's first true automobile—a huge, heavy, steam powered tricycle -
Invention of the diesel engine.
January 1882. Invention of the diesel engine.
In 1885, Diesel set up his first shop in Paris to begin development of a compression ignition engine. The process would last 13 years. In the 1890s, he received a number of patents for his invention of an efficient, slow burning, compression ignition, internal combustion engine -
Carl Benz invented the automobile.
January 1886. Carl Benz invented the automobile. In 1885, a German mechanical engineer named Karl Benz designed and built the world's first practical automobile powered by an internal-combustion engine. A year later, Benz received the first patent for a gas-fueled car on January 29, 1886. -
Invention of the first hybrid engine
January 1901. Invention of the first hybrid engine.
Ferdinand Porsche developed the Lohner-Porsche in 1901. But hybrid electric vehicles did not become widely available until the release of the Toyota Prius in Japan in 1997, followed by the Honda Insight in 1999. Initially, hybrid seemed unnecessary due to the low cost of gasoline. -
Ford Model T goes into production.
October 1908. Ford Model T goes into production.
Henry Ford's first attempt at a car company under his own name was the Henry Ford Company on November 3, 1901, which became the Cadillac Motor Company on August 22, 1902, after Ford left with the rights to his name. The Ford Motor Company was launched in a converted factory in 1903 with $28,000 in cash from twelve investors, most notably John and Horace Dodge. (who would later found their own car company). -
1926 Bentley Speed Six
W. O. Bentley combined one of his road tests of the Sun with a trip to see the 1924 French Grand Prix in Lyon.On his return trip to the ferry at Dieppe, W. O. encountered another disguised car at a three-way junction. W. O. and the Rolls-Royce test driver recognized each other and began racing each other along the routes nationales. This street race continued until the Rolls-Royce driver's hat blew off and he had to stop to retrieve it. -
The first generation of the Ford Thunderbird
The first generation of the Ford Thunderbird is a two-seat convertible produced by Ford for the 1955 to 1957 model year, the first 2-seat Ford since 1938. ... It remained the only two-seat convertible Thunderbird until the eleventh-generation was unveiled in 2002. -
The Mustang Boss 302
The Mustang Boss 302 is a high-performance variant of the Ford Mustang originally produced by Ford in 1969 and 1970, alongside its more powerful sibling the Boss 429 Mustang. Ford revived the name for another two year production run in 2012 and 2013. It was produced for the Trans Am racing series.
