Who created the first car ever?

There's no single answer to who created the "first car ever," as it depends on how you define "car." Several inventors contributed to the development of the automobile, with no single person definitively creating the first one.

Karl Benz is often credited with creating the first *practical* automobile in 1886 with his Benz Patent-Motorwagen. However, other inventors were working on similar self-propelled vehicles around the same time, making it difficult to pinpoint a single "first."