La Marquise

La Marquise is the world's oldest running automobile, as of 2011. It is an 1884 model made by Frenchmen De Dion, Bouton and Trépardoux. The car was a quadricycle prototype named for de Dion's mother.

In 1887, the Count of Dion drove La Marquise in an exhibition that has been called the world's first car race, though no other car showed up.

It made the 32-odd-kilometre (20 mile) Paris-to-Versailles round trip at an average speed... meer