The First Automobiles were built in Germany in 1886. Gottlieb Daimler and Carl Benz separately created their own “horseless carriages” to sell to the public. You may recognize the name Benz from the Mercedes-Benz car in fact, this Mercedes-Benz has an interactive museum where you can see and hear the very first cars! Both Daimler and Benz went on to run their own automobile companies that eventually merged into one company, In 1893,the first cars were displayed in the U.S. at Chicago’s Columbian Exposition. In 1983, Henry Ford introduced the Model T automobile, which was very successful in the U.S. We’ve been zooming down the highway ever since!