The first car manufacturers in the world were French: Panhard & Levassor (1889) and Peugeot (1891).
By car manufacturer we mean builders of entire motor vehicles for sale and not just engine inventors who experimented with car design to test their engines - Daimler-Benz began as the latter before becoming full car manufacturers and made their early money by licensing their patents and selling their engines to car manufacturers.
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