The First Petrol Powered car: Benz Patent Motorwagen
 

No steam here. Mercedes makes the claim. Black and white film transferred to youtube.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WZ2Q5B0ZYnI

Notice the starting technique and compare to above posts
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qVkvH0nm8pU

Why is Mercedes claim posted under American Iron Tech?
My imagination says that someone may have thoughts about discussing it lol
There is a difference in the First Car, the First petrol powered car and the first American car

Another Mercedes video - restored first car
 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FCrJgQlh59w

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZdsdtAN5mFU

Mercedes-Benz traces its origins to Karl Benz's creation of the first petrol-powered car, the Benz Patent Motorwagen, financed by Bertha Benz[4] and patented in January 1886,[5] and Gottlieb Daimler and engineer Wilhelm Maybach's conversion of a stagecoach by the addition of a petrol engine later that year.

Years later they took their original creation out for a test drive.