The world's oldest surviving internal combustion engined vehicle,as opposed to steam,was made in Germany by Dr.Siegfried Marcus,a German-Jewish inventor in 1875.

This vehicl survives in an Austrian museum and can still be driven under it's own power.

Steam cars are nothing new,inventors have been adapting that form of motive power to personal transport since the late 18th century an 2 americans pre-dated the Count by some 20 years,Richard Dudgeon and Sylvester Roper.

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