car firsts, which car was the first car to have.... ?

I can't answer your post properly BUT I do know that Mercedes pioneered most of the modern day tech we now come to expect like rain sensing wipers, abs etc etc

I think the Scimitar GTE was the first to have split folding rear seats? Unless anyone knows of another before 1968!

I think the Citroen DS Safai Estate had a 60/30 split rear seat for use as a mini ambulance back in something like 1960

I love all old cars by Citroens are my faves. They really did either invent or pioneer a huge number of 'modern' systems not limited to the following:

Rear stop lights (30s)
Independent suspension (1934)
Flexible engine mountings (1930s)
Front disk brakes (1955)
composite bodywork material (1955 polymer resin and aluminium - DS roof and bonnet - also early ones had perspex rear window)
Front wheel drive (1934)
Chassisless 'monocoque' body (1934)
frameless door glass (Citroen DS - unverified but I don't know of a pre 1955 car to have that?)
'dynamic' headlights that steered and leveled vertically (1967,although I think a vintage US car Cord had a steering single center headlight in the 40s)
Plastics for dashboard (1955)
Applied aerodynamics as opposed to 'streamlining' with ducting for brakes / cooling system etc (1955)
Radial tyres (Michelin X)
Powered twin circuit brakes (1930s)
could be wrong but I think the DS was (one of) the first to use a cross flow cylinder head with hemisphere combustion chambers in 1955.
Also, that 'step' from the back of the roof down to the rear windown on the DS - virtually every car since the Ford Focus has this but the DS stood alone with that feature from 1955. Unless anyone knows of one before - I'm ready to be schooled!

They also pioneered a good few things that didn't really become commonplace:
Semi automatic transmission (though maybe in the last 15 years it has been common)
Centralised high pressure hydraulic system to operate the main systems: suspension, steering, semi auto gear selectors, power brakes.
Center-point steering geometry
Single bolt/fixing for wheels (1955)
Single blade mono wiper in 1974 on the CX
The DS has the engine behind the front axle - the back is actually beneath the windscreen - and is 'technically' mid-engined although back to front compared to a Lotus or other mid.
Parking brake on the front wheels (I know, where's the fun in that )

I think the Mercedes Benz 300SL was the first to use petrol injection and an engine mounted at an axis to reduce the height.

As for Air Con, I think that US cars began getting that as standard in the 60s - Cadillacs?

Audi - first all aluminium body?

Volvo - First use of standard 3 point seatbelts in around 1969 - made the patent freely available for the whole car world for safety - a pretty noble cause huh?

Ford Thunderbird was the first (and I reckon only) to use an electroluminescent speedometer and gauges in about 1969 - don't know why that didn't become commonplace?

Don't know about electric windows but I think they're much older than you'd expect, might even be pre war on something like RollsRoyce

I doubt it - the Jaguar XK engine wasn’t the first and that was 1948. Likewise, there might be another close call on disc brakes with Jaguar? Depends on definition though - mass production car then I think the DS has it: www.hemmings.com/magazine/hsx/2011/04/The-first-car-with-disc-brakes-really-was------/3698201.html

Scimitar might have been the first with a 50/50 split rear seat then.

Ah right O, I think my enthusiasm got the better of me there

First 4 wheel car was a Daimler 1886

First Monocoque was Lancia Lambda 1924

First Disc brakes was the Chrysler CROWN Imperial 1948

First Gas Turbine was of course Rover Jet 1 1950

Nice, one of my favourite inventions

a wealth of knowledge - thanks

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