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==Bertha Benz's long-distance drive==
[[File:Berthabenzmemorialrouteschild.jpg|thumb|left|Official signpost of [[Bertha Benz Memorial Route]], commemorating the world's first long-distance journey with a Benz Patent-Motorwagen Number 3 in 1888]]
[[Image:Motorwagen Serienversion.jpg|thumb|The Benz Patent-Motorwagen Number 3 of 1888, used by [[Bertha Benz]] for the first long-distance journey by automobile (more than 106 km or sixty miles)]]

The world's first long distance automobile trip was undertaken by Bertha Benz using a Model 3. On the morning of 5 August 1888 Bertha – supposedly without the knowledge of her husband – took the vehicle on a {{convert|104|km|mi|abbr=on}} trip from Mannheim to [[Pforzheim]] to visit her mother, taking her sons Eugen and Richard with her. In addition to having to locate pharmacies along the way to refuel, she repaired various technical and mechanical problems. One of these included the invention of [[brake lining]]; after some longer downhill slopes she ordered a shoemaker to nail leather onto the brake blocks. Bertha Benz and sons finally arrived at nightfall, announcing the achievement to Karl by [[telegram]]. It had been her intention to demonstrate the feasibility of using the Benz Motorwagen for travel and to generate publicity in the manner now referred to as live marketing. Today, the event is celebrated every two years in Germany with an antique automobile rally.

In 2008, the [[Bertha Benz Memorial Route]]<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.bertha-benz.de/indexen.php?inhalt=home |title=Bertha Benz Memorial Route |access-date=29 March 2010 |archive-date=13 October 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171013073522/http://www.bertha-benz.de/indexen.php?inhalt=home |url-status=live }}</ref> was officially approved as a route of the industrial heritage of mankind, because it follows Bertha Benz's tracks of the world's first long-distance journey by automobile in 1888. The public can now follow the {{cvt|194|km}} of signposted route from Mannheim via [[Heidelberg]] to Pforzheim ([[Black Forest]]) and back. The return trip – which didn't go through Heidelberg – was along a different, slightly shorter route, as shown on the maps of the Bertha Benz Memorial Route.

Benz's Model 3 made its wide-scale debut to the world in the 1889 [[World's Fair]] in Paris; about twenty-five Motorwagens were built between 1886 and 1893.