Originally Posted by
tobibeck80
without us you still would ride a horse. yehaaaww
Not true. Benz may have invented the first internal combustion vehicle, but he did not/could not mass produce them. He made very few cars and most of Europe was still being drawn by horse and buggy. Henry Ford actually gets the credit for creating the "modern automobile".. He is the reason the United States, and the rest of the modern world do not ride horses anymore.
By 1916, production exceeded 700,000 units and the sticker price dropped to a mere $345. By 1927, fifteen million Model T’s had been sold. Henry Ford had succeeded. He had produced a low priced, lightweight, high power to weight ratio vehicle. The middle class family now owned a car. Weekend visits with relatives were possible. Trips to the market to buy sugar and flour became normal everyday activities. Still, in Europe, car producers did not believe the mass market was big enough to justify the mass production of low priced vehicles, so they continued to produce luxury vehicles with high unit profits
The Invention of the Modern Automobile
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