Several [[replicas]] were made of the Delamare-Deboutteville design and have been entered in all kinds of different events.
The [[France|French]] have also claimed that [[Panhard|Panhard & Levassor]] and [[Peugeot]] had laid the foundation for the automobile and not [[Gottlieb Daimler|Daimler]] and [[Benz]]. [[Benz]] was probably the first to go into car production in [[1888]], after experimental cars from [[1885]]-[[1887]]. [[Daimler]], who also built early experimental cars from [[1886]]-[[1889]], began to slowly turn out some production cars starting around [[1890]]. Also, both [[Peugeot]] and [[Panhard]] began car production by using [[Daimler Motoren Gesellschaft|Daimler]] engines, and were inspired to produced cars due to [[Daimler]]'s exhibition of his [[1889]] steel-wheeled car in [[Paris]]. [[Benz]]'s car was built by [[Émile Roger]] in [[Paris]], garnering more sales than [[Benz]] himself, and [[Benz]]'s designs were copied by many French makers for their first cars.
