I Drive The Oldest Car In The World: Here's How It Works! 

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!

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.

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

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 ✌💖☮

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.

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!

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

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 80's were so cool. 😎

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

Nothing like a good, nervous, German laugh. 😂

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.

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.

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

Love this series with Tommy on old vehicles!

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.

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

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.

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!😅

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

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.

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

Great machine! Thank you for the video!

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

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.

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.

OMG! You are so lucky! Living the dream!

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.

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

Everything has a beginning! Cool!

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

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

very interesting. thank you for sharing.

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

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?

That’s awesome dude!

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

Very cool Tommy !

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

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

It is quite elegant.

it sounds just as expected🤤🍻

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

Now that was a blast !!!

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

Wow! Hope you more videos like this one😊

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.

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".

that is so relax to drive

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

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.

Nice Mercedes! This is a cool video 👍

Good job 👍

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

What a great opportunity for you!

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

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.

The Ultimate Driving Machine. 🇩🇪

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

You need to start another channel for antique vehicles 😁

Fantastic!

Why did they stop making them? I want one!

Very impressive

Very interesting!

Indubitably my old boy! Hurumpf! *Twirls mustache*

Very cool!

I love this video!!!!! Wow!!!! ❤

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

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

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

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

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

Nathan would love that seat vibrating function.

Nice Restomod Mercedes

How much did it cost when it was new ?

Very cool car.

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

Quelle émotion ! , ......

One horse does move pretty good.

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

Awesome!

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.

Great moments💐💐💐💐🙏

Worlds first motorcycle! Awsome!

Party Pete!

"The 1885 Mercedes Benz Motor-Wagen was the Birth of the Car." - Doug DeMuro

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.

Funny thing is modern day tractors are basically the same design...Atleast the Ventracs are. There are no pedals and every thing is done with levers. They do obviously have the typical steering wheel, but speed and everything is controlled by levers.

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

this one gains all its strength without you having to pull back the crowbar of embrayage

It’s CEL and SBC dash light has been on for over 100 years 😂

Nice 👍

That guy reminds me of Christopher Plummer from Sound of Music.

that is so cool