World's 10 most influential cars

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.