Experiments with front - wheel - drive cars date to the early days of the automobile. According to various sources, sometime between 1895 and 1898 Gräf & Stift built a voiturette with a one - cylinder De Dion - Bouton engine fitted in the front of the vehicle, powering the front axle. It was thus arguably the world 's first front - wheel - drive automobile, but it never saw mass production, with only one copy ever made. In 1898, Latil, in France, devised a front - wheel - drive system for motorising horse - drawn carts.
who invented the first front wheel drive car
Gräf & Stift