The Duryea Motor Wagon is generally recognized as the first successful gasoline automobile built in the United States, completed by the Duryea brothers in 1893.
Charles and Frank Duryea built their single-cylinder vehicle in Springfield, Massachusetts. It made a public test run on September 21, 1893, and the brothers later developed improved versions for competition and limited production.
The Duryea was not the first self-propelled vehicle in America: steam and electric vehicles had appeared earlier. Its importance lies in being an early successful gasoline-powered automobile made by American inventors.
The name is sometimes confused with the Duryea Motor Wagon Company, founded later to manufacture cars. The original 1893 vehicle was an experimental motor wagon rather than a modern mass-produced car.