Steam powered, 12 passenger, weighed 5 tons, could move at 40 mph.
Thus, the October 16, 1875 was born in Europe the automobile age, when the Obedient , the horseless carriage, entered Paris to the amazement of the crowd. The success was overwhelming and the mood of the inventor reached the sky, giving wings to their ingenuity to keep improving in successive prototypes, the steam car. Ah, but everything has its gray side. The Obedient was so fast at the time that this adventure was made Bollée fined up to 75 times for speeding.
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this photo is from 1923 at the Le Mans circuit
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