The 5 oldest car companies in the world
From the last position held by two companies this time Opel German Fiat Italian where both companies were founded in 1899 as car manufacturers
Fiat
Fiat is the initials of the Italian factory of Turin and its founder Giovanni Agnelli with several investors in 1899, where Giovanni remained president until his death in 1945.
Fiat's first car was a four-horsepower, also called 3.5 horsepower. It was equipped with a two-cylinder engine with a capacity of 700 cc producing power of 4 with a three-speed gearbox and a top speed of 35 km / h.
Fiat made only 26 copies of the car, including at least four today, two at the Turin Motor Museum, one at the National Automobile Museum in Britain and the last at the Ford Museum in the United States.
Opel
Like many cars at the time, when Opel was founded in Germany in 1862, there was no car. At the time, there were no cars, Opel was a manufacturer of sewing machines and then bicycles. Cars until 1899, which saw the manufacture of the first Opel car, a car (Opel Patient Motor Wagon) and manufactured only 65 copies until 1902.
Renault in fourth place
Renault
The first Renault was manufactured in 1898, a year before the founding of the company by Louis Renault and his brothers Marcel and Fernand, a young engineer interested in the invention of the car, which began to spread throughout Europe.
The first Renault took the name "Renault Vuatorit", which means small Arab car. It was equipped with a one-liter engine with Continental tires, while its maximum speed was 32 km / h.
Third place is dominated by Czech automaker Tatra
Tatra
Tatra's reputation may not be on our list today, but its foundation dates back to 1850 when horse carts were manufactured for the first time, while Tatra became the auto industry in 1897,
The car was named president or president in Arabic and was equipped with a two-cylinder engine with a two-speed transmission.
The company continued to manufacture cars in the following decades and brought many innovations to the industry. Although Tatra shut down the passenger car sector in 1999, it still produced a range of four-wheel drive trucks.
Peugeot was second
Peugeot
Peugeot is a family business that manufactures coffee grinders and some metal tools. She began making bicycles in the following decades, before making the first internal combustion engine car in 1891. It's called Peugeot 3.
But the engine was of German design, manufactured by the French company (Bannard) under license from Daimler, and consisted of two V-type cylinders of two horses and the maximum speed of the Peugeot 3 car did not exceed 18 km / h.
(Daimler-Benz), also known as Mercedes
Mercedes
According to most historical references, the German engineers Karl Benz and Gottlieb Daimler are the two most famous names when it comes to the invention of internal combustion engines and cars,
Although there were earlier models of vehicles using this engine, these models were experimental and did not see the light as productive cars
On the other hand, after the founding of his company by Carl Benz in 1883, the German engineer and inventor made his first car in 1885 and conceived it entirely as a new type of vehicle, whereas previous experiments put the engine into vehicles pulled by horses.
This three-wheeled vehicle was equipped with a one-liter, single-cylinder engine generating less than one horse. After several improvements to the engine and chassis, Benz sold its first car in 1888.
Fiat
Fiat is the initials of the Italian factory of Turin and its founder Giovanni Agnelli with several investors in 1899, where Giovanni remained president until his death in 1945.
Fiat's first car was a four-horsepower, also called 3.5 horsepower. It was equipped with a two-cylinder engine with a capacity of 700 cc producing power of 4 with a three-speed gearbox and a top speed of 35 km / h.
Fiat made only 26 copies of the car, including at least four today, two at the Turin Motor Museum, one at the National Automobile Museum in Britain and the last at the Ford Museum in the United States.
Opel
Like many cars at the time, when Opel was founded in Germany in 1862, there was no car. At the time, there were no cars, Opel was a manufacturer of sewing machines and then bicycles. Cars until 1899, which saw the manufacture of the first Opel car, a car (Opel Patient Motor Wagon) and manufactured only 65 copies until 1902.
Renault in fourth place
Renault
The first Renault was manufactured in 1898, a year before the founding of the company by Louis Renault and his brothers Marcel and Fernand, a young engineer interested in the invention of the car, which began to spread throughout Europe.
The first Renault took the name "Renault Vuatorit", which means small Arab car. It was equipped with a one-liter engine with Continental tires, while its maximum speed was 32 km / h.
Third place is dominated by Czech automaker Tatra
Tatra
Tatra's reputation may not be on our list today, but its foundation dates back to 1850 when horse carts were manufactured for the first time, while Tatra became the auto industry in 1897,
The car was named president or president in Arabic and was equipped with a two-cylinder engine with a two-speed transmission.
The company continued to manufacture cars in the following decades and brought many innovations to the industry. Although Tatra shut down the passenger car sector in 1999, it still produced a range of four-wheel drive trucks.
Peugeot was second
Peugeot
Peugeot is a family business that manufactures coffee grinders and some metal tools. She began making bicycles in the following decades, before making the first internal combustion engine car in 1891. It's called Peugeot 3.
But the engine was of German design, manufactured by the French company (Bannard) under license from Daimler, and consisted of two V-type cylinders of two horses and the maximum speed of the Peugeot 3 car did not exceed 18 km / h.
(Daimler-Benz), also known as Mercedes
Mercedes
According to most historical references, the German engineers Karl Benz and Gottlieb Daimler are the two most famous names when it comes to the invention of internal combustion engines and cars,
Although there were earlier models of vehicles using this engine, these models were experimental and did not see the light as productive cars
On the other hand, after the founding of his company by Carl Benz in 1883, the German engineer and inventor made his first car in 1885 and conceived it entirely as a new type of vehicle, whereas previous experiments put the engine into vehicles pulled by horses.
This three-wheeled vehicle was equipped with a one-liter, single-cylinder engine generating less than one horse. After several improvements to the engine and chassis, Benz sold its first car in 1888.
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