Model-T was the first one, I believe. It was the wind up ford model.

Many of the first automobile designs were wind driven. The first design by Guido da Vigevano, in 1335 was never actually built. Later on Leonardo da Vinci had a design for clockwork driven tricycle with tiller steering and a differential mechanism between the rear wheels. The first vehicle to move under it’s own power was reported to have been designed by Nicholas Joseph Cugnot. It was a steam-powered vehicle constructed by M. Brezin in 1769. A second model also a steam- powered vehicle was built in 1770, it weighed in at 8000 pounds and had a top speed of 2 miles per hour. On the first model’s maiden trip around the city of Paris it hit a stone wall. The purpose of this vehicle was to haul canons around town. This model also had a tendency to tip over forward, unless it was counterweighted with a canon in the rear. The first internal combustion engine had to wait until a fuel was available to combust internally. They tried gunpowder but it didn’t work out. The first gas really was gas. Coal was used; by heating the coal in a pressure vessel or boiler coal gas was generated. The first practical gas engine was patented by a Frenchman, Etienne Lenoir in 1860 in Paris, it had a one-half horse power engine. Alphonse Bear de Rochas developed the Otto cycle or four-cycle engine, which we still use today, in 1862. The gas is compressed in the same cylinder in which it is burned. Lenoir claimed to have a car that ran on benzene and he diagrams indicate a spark ignition. If this is accurate then his vehicle was the first to run on a petroleum-based fuel, or what we call gas, short for gasoline. In Gottlieb Daimler’s workshop in Bad Cannstatt, he built a wooden motorcycle. His son Paul rode the motorcycle from Cannstatt to Unterturkheim and back on November 10, 1885. The motorcycle used a hot tube ignition system to get the engine speed up to 1000 rpm. Steam cars had been built in America since before the Civil War. The early ones were more like small locomotives, by 1980 however Ransom E. Olds had built his second steam powered car. He sold one of these cars to a buyer in India, but the ship it was on was lost at sea. By 1893 Henry Ford had an engine running, but did not build his first car until 1986. Ford sold his first car by the end of that year for $400.00; he used the money to build another one. In 1899 the Mayor of Detroit, William C. Maybury and other wealthy Detroiters backed Ford to form the Detroit Automobile Company. This company produced a few prototypes but never went into production it dissolved in 1901. Henry Ford did not offer another car for sale until 1903. Charles and Frank Duryea, brothers, built the first gasoline powered car in America in 1893. They made this vehicle for an old horse drawn buggy. They installed a 4-horse power, single cylinder gasoline engine. This car didn’t run very well and was only driven a couple of times before it was put into the United States National Museum after being purchased by Inglis M. Uppercu. The first closed circuit automobile race was held at Narragansett Park, Rhode Island, in September 1896. Four of the cars in that race were Duryea’s; thirteen Duryeas of that same design were built in 1896, making it the first production car. http://www.multiage-education.com/eled425/vft/maureenvft.htm