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The earliest cars were hand built, one by one, and were very expensive. The machines were seen as toys for the rich. In the 1890s, the "horseless carriage" was a relatively new idea, with no one having a fixed, universal idea of what a car should look like or how it should work. Most of the first car
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Enthusiast
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