Although self-powered vehicles were demonstrated as early as 1769, it was not until 1885 that the history of the automobile truly began. Automotive history is generally divided into a number of eras based on the major design and technology shifts seen over the last century. Although the exact boundaries of each era can be hazy, scholarship has defined them as follows:
| Automobile history eras | |||||||||||||||
| 1890s | 1900s | 1910s | 1920s | 1930s | 1940s | 1950s | 1960s | 1970s | 1980s | 1990s | 2000s | ||||
| Veteran | Brass | Vintage | Pre-War | Post-War | Modern | ||||||||||
| Antique | |||||||||||||||
| Classic | |||||||||||||||
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