The world-recognized inventor of the automobile was the German Karl Fritsch Benz. He developed the world's first horse-drawn three-wheeled car in 1885 and obtained the world's first patent for automobile invention on January 29, 1886, which is known as the birth day of the modern automobile by most people, and Benz was also known as the "father of the automobile". 1887, Karl Benz sold his first car to the Frenchman Emile Rogers, which was the world's first sale of a modern automobile. In 1887, Karl Benz sold his first automobile to Emile Rogers, a Frenchman, which was the first modern automobile sold in the world. In the same year, Karl Benz established the world's first automobile manufacturing company, Mercedes-Benz Motors. Benz devoted his life to the automobile business.

In 1886, a German, Gottlieb Daimler, installed his own automobile engine in a four-wheeled carriage and drove it at the "breathtaking" speed of 18 kilometers per hour, and the first four-wheeled car in human history was born. 1890 Daimler founded the company.

The French have a different view of who invented the automobile. The French believe that it is true that, long before the Germans, France's David Depotville invented and patented the automobile in 1884. Unfortunately, he did not go on to study the automobile, but the engine used in industrial production, and eventually became an industrial engine manufacturer, and the automobile industry is estranged. But one thing is certain, France in the history of automobile development has made a great contribution is indelible, because the French are the pioneers of the automobile industry, is that they make automobile manufacturing really into the industrial production stage.