As someone who was born In 1811 I can say this was a very very accurate replica

Hard to get any more classic then this

3:14: The first long distance drive was by Bertha Benz, Carl Benz' wife, and her two sons without her husband's knowledge, in August 1888. On the way, she ran out of fuel and had to buy ligroin in a pharmacy, which by this is the oldest filling station in the world.

I'd be willing to bet, whoever built the replica, did it from an original set of plans. Not only are they front runners in engineering, Germans keep impeccable records!

I was born in the mid 1960s just a couple hundred kilometers from where that car was invented & I have heard tales of my great grandfather may have worked in the Benz factory in the early 1900s but I cant verify any truth to that ✌💖☮

I am writing a story about this car and needed to have the mechanisms explained. As someone who knows nearly nothing about cars and motors in general, this was super helpful and concise. Exactly what i needed. Thank you for showing this wonder of a car!

The 80's were so cool. 😎

Fascinating that almost 157 years later, modern cars still consist of many of these same components (just more refined). - Differential - Oil lubrication system - Flywheel - Battery/ignition box - Water coolant reservoir

Just 15 years later Wilhelm Maybach and Paul Daimler built the Mercedes 35 hp that could go 75 km/h. It is known as the first modern car. It was quite rapid development.

Consider that when this car was invented there were no paved roads and not even smooth roads. So even with those large-diameter but narrow Wheels it would be quite a bumpy ride.

The oldest car I’ve driven was a 58 corvette. Shifter and engine were perfect but the brakes didn’t work. I felt like I was in a one man parade. I was giddy for hours.

Bertha Benz was pretty much the R&D department. Without her, her husband Karl may have given up on his invention.

As I remember, the woman who drove that vehicle was Karl Benz' wife.

This was Totally Awesome Tommy. Really glad you got to experience this part of Automotive History!!! Right on Tommy!!😎

I've seen one of these close up in the Haynes museum in UK. Fabulous piece of motoring history. To see footage of one in action is epic. Thanks for this video it has made my day.

That was pretty cool. Weird not seeing computers, wires everywhere. It was so simple.

Nothing like a good, nervous, German laugh. 😂

I love it! Kudos to tbe engineers at Mercedes Benz who rebuilt this. What a wonderful little contraption!

5:39 his laugh was in time with the engine lmao

I had a 1985 Mercedes and thought that was old. One of these replicas was on display at San Simeon in California for many years.

this is probably the one Polyphony scanned in for Gran Turismo. it and Daimler's effort were available to drive in game. I couldn't get either to cruise at more than 6mph/10kph, though. any more than that, and they bounced off their rev limit in game :P

That's awesome! I would love to see a drive video and reaction of TFL with a all original Model T, I bet someone out there would let y'all use the car to do a video.

These replicas are built in England! We visited the Yourshire motor museum outside Leeds about ten years ago and were surpriced to run into the assembly area. They were started building the replicas to the one hundred aniversery and had continued to build them since, the were working on number 125 by then.... All parts were sourced in Britain.... Even the tyres were manufactured in this location The only parts that were not correct was as we were told, the piston they used a Ford Cortina piston and the spark plug thar was 😊a modern plug hidden inside a fake cover.... Amazing wood work from oak Great job by the three men in the assembly. Anders Rydberg Sweden.

That was cool! Tommy surely gets to drive some interesting vehicles

Can you imagine not hearing of this thing and your living way out on the prairie. One day you look out and see this going down the road with no horse in front of it!😅

Great machine! Thank you for the video!

Everything has a beginning! Cool!

To me it looks more like motorized 3-wheel bicycle than a automobile.

A German also invented the 'laufmaschine' (walking machine) or bike. It was 1817, the year after a famine across Europe. Many horses had died, so the inventor made several so that people could get around the district faster.

Love this series with Tommy on old vehicles!

That’s awesome dude!

An interesting predecessor of this was Richard Trevithick's London Steam Carriage from 1803(!), which was the first self-propelled passenger vehicle. However, this was itself preceeded by Nicholas Cugnot's steam-powered road vehicle from 1769, which was designed to pull cannons at walking pace. However, Benz' Patentwagen was the first car with an internal combustion engine to be successful. And in that sense, it's the ancestor to most modern cars. Incidentally, the first electric car also already emerged in the 1800s.

There's an even older automobile, from 1776. Invented by French engineer and army captain Nicolas-Joseph Cugnot, the 'Fardier à vapeur' (steam-powered cart) became the first ever self-powered vehicle, used to carry artillery in the battlefield

OMG! You are so lucky! Living the dream!

Could only imagine the parade for the National League champions Chicago White Stockings (now the Cubs) & the American Association Champions St. Louis Browns (now the NL St. Louis Cardinals) in their own motorcades after they ended the Pre-Modern World Series in a 3-3 tie.

3:45, that's an amazing contraption. This first car changed modern history.

it sounds just as expected🤤🍻

Imagine being the baller that rolled up in that when everyone else had a horse.

There's an 1886 model of this vehicle that's displayed in a museum that still functions and runs, even after nearly 140 years. It's a testament to the idea of our forefathers having built things to truly last.

Very cool Tommy !

I like the pointer on the tiller to indicate which direction you will go!

You need someone to push you uphill and the brakes are not enough for downhill. In addition, there used to be bumpy roads and if something broke, the driver had to fix it himself. There weren't even any petrol stations, but petrol could be bought in the pharmacy.

Great stuff! I love such engineering. For us it’s very simple, but back than such a breakthrough :)

I would LOVE to have a drive of this car. It would be super cool.

Now that was a blast !!!

I'd love to see a modernized replica of this design. A car like this would be affordable, simplistic, easy to work on.

very interesting. thank you for sharing.

It's not a "first car" - Benz automobile is the first otto-cycle ICE car. First practical compact steam-powered car was invented by Sylvester Roper in 1863. Sometimes Benz first car is considered as first production car, but in fact he was late even in that category - Amede Bollee sold 50 of his steam powered cars since 1878 so Benz was late by 7 years. Also, fun fact: first electric production vehicle was started to manufacture in 1884, a year prior Benz patented his car. So in fact, this car was the last invented car of existing practical ways of car transportation 😉

Would love to take this down to my local mercedes dealership for a full service.

You forgot to mention that Bertha Benz stole that first car from her husband to drive a hundred kilometers across Germany. So actually the first long distance drive was a car theft.

It is quite elegant.

What a great opportunity for you!

How did you navigate that parking lot without a 14 inch infotainment screen?! Hahahaha.

Imagine trying it on a real road and getting pulled over by a cop. Imagine how many tickets you would get. I would say "If it wasn't for this vehicle, you wouldn't have your cop car".

I thought this was an upgrade from the Reliant Robin. Great video, thank you.

that looks fun even by today's standard, can't imagine how groundbreaking it was back in the 1880s

Way cool, thanks, Tommy. Times they are changing, like our cell phones with more memory than the first moon landing (640k), and our lawnmowers and UTVs having more power than the first autos. My oldest driven, 48 Buick Fastback, think 3-on-the-tree. Why can't the "Imagineers" at GM modernize some old styles (50s classics) to fit on standard frame (like Colorado WT), seems like a dime to produce and charge $20k-$30k?

The Ultimate Driving Machine. 🇩🇪

Wow! Hope you more videos like this one😊

You call an Uber. A driver with a top hat pull up on this.

Replica, okay, I was thinking “there is NO WAY.” So cool!

2:43 that was going insane above the wheel that ceeps things mooving sheeeesh

1:20 - turn to the right to go left... Reminds me of playing GoldenEye007 on the N64 back in the late 1990s, inverted controls!

Nice Mercedes! This is a cool video 👍

Good job 👍

that is so relax to drive

Fantastic!

How do I miss these, 10 months ago!😡 Tommy that had to be the coolest thing ever. Woman made the first long drive in one of these, but she never got it parked and the interior was full of receipts candy wrappers and Chick Fila bags and he husband spent 4 days cleaning it out and the petrol was on empty.

Worlds first motorcycle! Awsome!

Very interesting!

It’s crazy to think that the patent wagon and the car underneath the tent next to it are essentially the same thing

Very cool!

Omg!! That looks so cool!! I want one. LOL

Very impressive

Why did they stop making them? I want one!

Awesome!

Amazing design! Simplicity sold the idea of a car to a millions and millions!

That single cylinder really dramatizes how infrequently a cylinder in a car actually fires since it's only once per 2 revolutions of the crankshaft. You can see the whole vehicle bump around every time the combustion stroke happens.

According to the Guinness book... Currently, the 'oldest' car in operation on the planet is "La Marquesa", a car manufactured in 1884 and, despite the 133 years that weigh on its steam engine, it continues to circulate. The car is capable of traveling close to 30 kilometers and reaching a top speed of only 60 km/h.

You need to start another channel for antique vehicles 😁

Surprisingly quiet, was expecting it to go BANG BANG RATTLE RATTLE the whole time it was running

Great moments💐💐💐💐🙏

Though all the world considers this car the first, it's not indeed. The real first car was made by the French inventor Cugnot, 116 years prior to Benz. That was the first "self-propelled" land vehicle, so the first car. I never understand why people call Benz as the first car. From 1769 (the year Cugnot invented the automobile) to 1886 (the year Carl Benz produced this one), hundreds of cars produced and used. This is not the first car, this is the first "gasoline" car.

Love 😘 Germany 🇩🇪 Mercedes ❤

I love this video!!!!! Wow!!!! ❤

Indubitably my old boy! Hurumpf! *Twirls mustache*

Quelle émotion ! , ......

Water and fuel consumption was probably considered to be really good when compared to steam engines of the same era.

Nice Restomod Mercedes

Well, the oldest still street legal car is from 1894, a Benz Victoria", and it's an original, not a replica.

Party Pete!

It is the first internal combustion powered car. Steam powered cars existed even earlier.

"What do you drive bro? A Mercedes. Nice, how much horsepower does it have? 1. One hundred? No, just 1."

Nathan would love that seat vibrating function.

Very cool car.

One horse does move pretty good.

Nice 👍

A replica NYC like this was in the Manhattan Mercedes dealership for years.

Where does one put the coin to make the seat vibrate like what you see at county fairs after a tiring day of walking everywhere ? I didn'tknow it required a manual spin of the flywheel to start it. Cool.

Wow, cool. You just got teleported 140 something years back into time to drive the world's first viable motor car.