📜 Interesting fact: The company is credited with inventing the very first practical automobile. In 1886, Karl Benz patented the “Benz Patent-Motorwagen,” a three-wheeled vehicle powered by a gas engine. However, it was his wife, Bertha Benz, who truly proved the car’s potential; without telling her husband, she took their two sons on a 66-mile journey to visit her mother, becoming the first person ever to take a long-distance road trip. Along the way, she acted as her own mechanic and even inve