What is the first car ever build?

There's no single answer to the question of the very first car. It depends on how you define "car." There wasn't a sudden invention; it was a gradual evolution.

Several contenders are often cited, depending on the criteria used:

* Karl Benz's Patent-Motorwagen (1886): This is often considered the first practical automobile, as it was the first to be self-propelled using an internal combustion engine and designed for road use. It's often given the title of the first *true* car.

However, other inventors were experimenting with self-propelled vehicles around the same time, making it difficult to pinpoint one definitive "first." These early vehicles were often quite different from what we consider cars today.