Originally Posted by
jchauncey
Im fairly certain that Karl Benz was the first person to manufacture an actual automobile in the way we regard them, as in with the internal combustion engine and whatnot.
Nope...read on:
Running by February, 1893 and ready for road trials by September, 1893 the car built by Charles and Frank Duryea, brothers, was the first gasoline powered car in America.
Benz made the first internal combustion engine. Duryea brothers Frank and Charles put it together with the automobile.
Also...
Henry Ford had an engine running by 1893 but it was 1896 before he built his first car.
My info is taken from this site:
http://www.ausbcomp.com/~bbott/cars/carhist.htm
We all know that Wikipedia is not reliable.