Talk:Car

how old are cars 2A02:C7C:8A11:A800:4DFC:39F4:5472:DF27 (talk) 13:16, 4 October 2025 (UTC)

From the article itself Car#History, the first production car is generally considered to be by Benz in 1986. The same section also lists some predecessors.  Stepho  talk  23:33, 4 October 2025 (UTC)

1886*, however in the introduction it says that a car has 4 wheels, the Benz Patent-Motorwagen only had 3 wheels, so can it be first? MUIsab (talk) 16:18, 7 March 2026 (UTC)

Most definitions do indeed say 4-wheels. But it is not absolute. Examples of 3-wheel cars include the Reliant Robin and the F-Series 3-wheeler. There are also examples of 6-wheel cars like the Mercedes-Benz W31.  Stepho  talk  13:32, 8 March 2026 (UTC)

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please wiki link "costs to society" to Societal effects of cars. Thanks! ~2026-56296-9 (talk) 14:54, 26 January 2026 (UTC)

No need. The last sentence of the intro "far-reaching implications for the nature of societies" already has a link to that. We generally only link once per article.  Stepho  talk  07:04, 31 January 2026 (UTC)

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I would like to propose adding a brief mention of the growing automobile entrepreneurship in Bangladesh.

Proposed Addition: "In South Asia, entrepreneurs like Ibrahim Hawlader (CEO of Ebrahim Motors) are contributing to the expansion of global car trading and distribution networks."

Reference: Official Profile of Ibrahim Hawlader

Thank you for reviewing this. IbrahimHawlader2026 (talk) 05:52, 31 January 2026 (UTC)

No way, for a number of reasons

• It matches your user name see WP:CONFLICTOFINTEREST.
• It is a very specific point about a very specific region, so does not belong on this summary article.
• It is advertising - see WP:SPAM and WP:SPONSORED.
• Even it passed all that, it still needs references from reliable, independent sources and definitely not from the person involved. See WP:FACT, WP:RS and WP:RSSELF.  Stepho  talk  07:11, 31 January 2026 (UTC)

 Not done See Stepho's explanation above. -MPGuy2824 (talk) 07:36, 31 January 2026 (UTC)

Benz invented an early internal combustion engine based car. But in some ways, it has little in common with what you call a car (with some jurisdictions calling similar vehicles today "three-wheeled motorcycles), and electric cars (which make up a significant minority of cars driven) are older. So are vehicles that use a steam engine. You may as well name Henry Ford and be like the American elementary school textbook press, since his Model T was the first to roll off a sizable assembly line AND have four wheels instead of 3 like Benz's smaller run car. ~2026-16346-90 (talk) 22:23, 15 March 2026 (UTC)

Saying that it is different to modern cars is a false argument. Imagine if in 2036 we were looking at anything from before 1900 and saying "it doesn't have any form of automatic guidance system or any form lane collision avoidance, therefore it isn't a car." It has the basics of all cars in that it has an engine (non-animal power source), balances by itself (compare to motorcycles), has steering (compare to trains), does not require rails (compare to trains), goes across ground (compare to boats) and carries people.

Comparing to the first electric car is a fair question. However, the main thrust (pun not intended) of Benz being called the first is because he put it into production. All cars before him (electric, steam or petrol) were one-offs or very, very, very limited numbers. If you want to allow earlier one-off electric cars then we can also find earlier one-off cars.

I recognise your joke about Americans thinking Ford was the inventor. However, there were many 4-wheel cars before him.  Stepho  talk  00:23, 16 March 2026 (UTC)