Oldest car

A car with a steam engine of the oldest in the world, and still running. Designed year 1884 in France, a year before Gottlieb Daimler and Karl Benz created the car with petrol engine, this car is called De Dion Bouton. Henry Ford is the person that developed the automobile, 12 years after De Dion Bouton was created.

This four-wheeler with a full name De Dion Bouton et Trepardoux, has a call name of "La Marquise" was originally built for the French Count De Dion, one of the founders of the company.

In 1887 this car demonstrated and travel 19 miles distance, with the speed of 36 mph, and the following year win the race of the first race car in the world, beating of the three-wheeler steam engine car. Fueled with coal, wood and paper, the car should be heated about 30 minutes to get enough steam the car runs on thin tires of solid rubber wrapped around metal wheel. A curator of transportation for the Henry Ford Museum and Greenfield Village in Michigan Dearbon, agreed that the De Dion Bouton very probably the oldest running car. However, old car is already not currently in existence. It was phased out in 2004 and the last of its car is named old car Alero. It is also a good point to note that Henry Ford and his company is not the first car maker to mass produce cars. The oldest manufacturer to mass produce cars is definitely the Oldsmobile group. During the time it's still active, it has produced 35.2 million cars! Its name last for 107 years in the car making history of the United States and of the whole world. Car brands like Daimler and Peugeot are the oldest car brands but did not mass produced cars before Oldsmobile did.