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Bought in 1903 by the press baron Alfred Harmsworth and capable of the then almost inconceivable speed of 80mph, it has been described as one of the world’s first “supercars”.
It set the pattern for the cars we drive today, so how does it feel to drive this 1904 Mercedes Simplex?
It’s 1886 and Karl Benz has applied for a patent on what is generally acknowledged to be the world’s first motor car, or “vehicle powered by a gas engine” as he put it. But what a machine it was, a three-wheeler, made of spillikins, with a tiny single-cylinder engine pushing out barely three-quarters of a horsepower.
It’s 1886 and Karl Benz has applied for a patent on what is generally acknowledged to be the world’s first motor car, or “vehicle powered by a gas engine” as he put it. But what a machine it was, a three-wheeler, made of spillikins, with a tiny single-cylinder engine pushing out barely three-quarters of a horsepower.
The London to Brighton Veteran Car Run will return next week with over 400 slow but spectacular historic ca...