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It may look like a three-wheeled park bench, but Carl Benz's single-cylinder contraption is the only automobile that can be truly said to have influenced all others, quite simply, by being the first. It was so difficult to control it clobbered a wall on an early test drive, but countless millions of cars were to follow in the Motorwagen's first, wobbly, solid-rubber tyre tracks.
Which cars do you think have made the biggest impact around the world? We're talking about the ones that still make their influence felt decades - and in a couple of cases more than a century - after they first appeared.
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