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= What is a car﻿ =

An automobile, motor car or car is a wheeled motor vehicle used for transporting passengers, which also carries its own engine or motor. Most definitions of the term specify that automobiles are designed to run primarily on roads, to have seating for one to eight people, to typically have four wheels, and to be constructed principally for the transport of people rather than goods.[1 ] However, the term automobile is far from precise, because there are many types of vehicles that do similar tasks. There are approximately 600 million passenger cars worldwide (roughly one car per eleven people).[2 ][3 ] Around the world, there were about 806 million cars and light trucks on the road in 2007; they burn over 1 billion m³ (260 billion US gallons) of petrol/gasoline and diesel fuel yearly. The numbers are increasing rapidly, especially in China and India .[|[4]] [] = what is a car 2 =


 * a motor vehicle with four wheels; usually propelled by an internal combustion engine; "he needs a car to get to work"
 * a wheeled vehicle adapted to the rails of railroad; "three cars had jumped the rails"
 * the compartment that is suspended from an airship and that carries personnel and the cargo and the power plant
 * where passengers ride up and down; "the car was on the top floor"
 * cable car: a conveyance for passengers or freight on a cable railway; "they took a cable car to the top of the mountain"

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= Who invented the first car = Ferdinand Verbiest invented the first car in the year 1672. It was the first ever car invented and was powered by steam. Ferdinand was an experimentalist and a missionary to China. He built his car in China. Hence you could rightly say, the first ever car was made in China.

In 1769, the first self-propelled car was designed and built by Nicholas Cugnot. His model of car was a three-wheeler.

Francois Isaac Rivaz, a Swiss inventor, designed and invented the first ever car with an internal combustion engine. This car engine was fueled with a mixture of hydrogen and oxygen. This car was made in 1806. However, this design was not a success.

The [|car models] designed and built by Samuel Brown, Samuel Morey and Etienne Lenoir were also a failure.

In 1881, Gustave Trouve not only designed and invented the first ever car powered by [|electricity] but also demonstrated the functioning of this [|automobile] at an International Exhibition of Electricity in Paris.

Four years later in 1885, Karl Benz designed and built a car powered by gasoline. This car was made in Germany. This was the first ever car to be granted a patent in 1886. The rest is history and the world acknowledged Karl Benz as the "Inventor of the modern automobile". He also invented the first ever car with an internal combustion flat engine in 1896.

There have been dramatic changes in the field of mechanical engineering and today [|hybrid cars] are in vogue. http://www.buzzle.com/articles/who-invented-the-first-ever-car.html

= Who invented the first car 2 = Karl Benz invented the first Gasoline automobile powered by an internal combustion engine: three wheeled, Four cycle, engine and chassis form a single unit. Then he continued building Cars (in Germany) with Gottlieb Daimler and founded the company Daimler-Benz which became Mercedes-Benz in later years (Mercedes after Emil Jellinek daughter who sold and raced Daimler-Benz cars and benz after karl benz.)

Read more: http://wiki.answers.com/Q/Who_invented_the_first_car#ixzz16vHfcuAp = Who invented the first car 3 = Ferdinand Verbiest (October 9, 1623 – January 28, 1688) was a [|Flemish] [|Jesuit] [|missionary] in [|China] during the [|Qing dynasty]. He was born in [|Pittem] near [|Tielt] in [|Flanders], later part of the modern state of [|Belgium].[|[2]] He is known as Nan Huairen (南懷仁) in Chinese. He was an accomplished mathematician and astronomer and proved to the court of [|Kangxi Emperor] that European astronomy was more accurate than Chinese astronomy. He then corrected the Chinese calendar and was later asked to rebuild and re-equip the [|Beijing Ancient Observatory], being given the role of Head of the Mathematical Board and Director of the Observatory. He became close friends with the [|Kangxi Emperor], who frequently requested his teaching, in [|geometry], [|philosophy] and [|music]. Verbiest worked as a diplomat and cartographer, and also as a translator, because he spoke [|Latin], [|German], [|Dutch], [|Spanish], and [|Italian]. He wrote more than thirty books. During the 1670s, Verbiest designed what some claim to be the first ever self-propelled vehicle – many claim this as the world's first [|automobile], in spite of its small size and the lack of evidence that it was actually built. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferdinand_Verbiest

= When was the first car invented = The first "car" was created in 1769. It was steamed powered and hauled french artillery at a slow walking pace of 2 1/2 mph. Read more: [] =Awesome Facts =

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 * 1) Chevrolet Imphala was one such car that had enjoyed a breaking sales record of more than one million in 1965.
 * 2) The first cars used lever instead of steering wheel.
 * 3) The first Porsche 911 was introduced in 1964 and generated a power output of 130 bhp.
 * 4) An airbag takes only 40 milliseconds to inflate after an accident.
 * 5) Ferrari makes a maximum of 14 cars every day.
 * 6) The world's longest traffic hold-up was between Paris and Lyon on the French Autoroute in 1980. it was about 110 miles long.
 * 7) The first auto insurance policy was purchased in in 1897 in Westfield, MA.
 * 8) Tata breaks the world records by producing the world's cheapest car, Tata Nano.
 * 9) Windshield wipers were introduced by a woman.
 * 10) The first self-propelled car was invented by Nicolas Cugnot in 1769. It was designed with three wheels and an engine in the front along with the boiler. The car was able to run at a speed of 6 km/h. The first self-propelled car was first used by French Army to move cannons.
 * 11) Nicolas Cugnot designed another steam-driven vehicle two years later after he introduced the first steam-driven car. The machine ran well but one day it met an accident with a wall and this incident is recorded to be the first motor-accident.
 * 12) In the late 18th century, Issac de Rivaz designed several successful steam-powered cars. Then in 1807 he designed the internal combustion engine that used a mixture of hydrogen and oxygen to generate power. He then developed a car using this engine.
 * 13) The first practical four-stroke engine was invented by the Otto and Langen Company of Deutz, Germany. Nikolaus Otto was working in a grocery store and one day he read about Lenoir's two-stroke gas-driven internal combustion engine. Otto the started his own workshop supported by Langen in Deutz near Cologne in 1863. There he invented the four-stroke engine in 1876. Later, a German engineer named Gottlieb Daimler carried out much developments in the engine and introduced a practical four-stroke engine in that is still used in various car models.