Driving the first ford car ever made

First automobile developed by American industrialist Henry Ford (1896)

Motor vehicle

The Ford Quadricycle was the first vehicle developed by Henry Ford.

Ford's first car was a simple frame with a gas-powered engine mounted onto four bicycle wheels.^[3]

Historic Frame

The earliest cars were hand built, one by one, and were very expensive.

The machines were seen as toys for the rich.^[3] In the 1890s, the "horseless carriage" was a relatively new idea, with no one having a fixed, universal idea of what a car should look like or how it should work.

Most of the first car builders were inventors, rather than businessmen, working with their imaginations and the parts they had on hand.^[3] Thus, the invention of the Quadricycle type of vehicle in France in the 1880s marks an important innovation as a proto-automobile that would lay the foundation for the future, with more practical designs to follow.

The term "Quadricycle" comes from