The Quadricycle was an early form of

automobile A car, or an automobile, is a motor vehicle with wheels. Most definitions of cars state that they run primarily on roads, Car seat, seat one to eight people, have four wheels, and mainly transport private transport#Personal transport, peopl ...

. Earliest models were propelled by a small

steam engine A steam engine is a heat engine that performs Work (physics), mechanical work using steam as its working fluid. The steam engine uses the force produced by steam pressure to push a piston back and forth inside a Cylinder (locomotive), cyl ...

, then designers switched to early

internal combustion engine An internal combustion engine (ICE or IC engine) is a heat engine in which the combustion of a fuel occurs with an oxidizer (usually air) in a combustion chamber that is an integral part of the working fluid flow circuit. In an internal comb ...

s as they became available. The word is derived from the fact that it had four wheels and used technology derived from the

bicycles A bicycle, also called a pedal cycle, bike, push-bike or cycle, is a human-powered or motor-assisted, pedal-driven, single-track vehicle, with two wheels attached to a frame, one behind the other. A is called a cyclist, or bicyclist. ...

of the era. * 1884 De Dion Bouton " La Marquise" Quadricycle (Steam runabout) * 1884 De Dion Bouton Victoria Quadricycle1884 De Dion Bouton Et Trepardoux Dos-A-Dos Steam Runabout
* 1889 Daimler Quadricycle * 1901 Peugeot Type 2, a direct descendant of the Daimler Quadricycle, and the first automobile of the Peugeot company * Peugeot Type 3 Quadricycle * Le Rudge Quadricycle Tandem * 1896 Ford Quadricycle, Henry Ford's first automobile designBrinkley, David, ''Wheels for the World: Henry Ford, His Company, and a Century of Progress'', (New York: Penguin Group, 2003), p.22 * 1899 Orient Quadricycle (aka Orient Autogo) * 1900 De Dion Bouton Quadricycle * 1901 Truffault Quadricycle Additional motorized four-wheelers: * Duryea Motor Wagon *

Benz Velo The Benz Velo was one of the first cars, introduced by Carl Benz in 1894 as the followup to the Benz Patent-Motorwagen, Patent-Motorwagen. 67 Benz Velos were built in 1894 and 134 in 1895. The early Velo had a 1L engine, and later a engine gi ...

Quadricycle, quadracycle, quadcycle, quadrocycle and quad all refer to vehicles with four wheels. More specifically these terms may refer to: *

All-terrain vehicle An all-terrain vehicle (ATV), also known as a light utility vehicle (LUV), a quad bike or quad (if it has four wheels), as defined by the American National Standards Institute (ANSI), is a vehicle that travels on low-pressure tires, has a seat ...

, also known as quad or quad bike * Motorized quadcycle, a motorcycle with four wheels *

Automobile A car, or an automobile, is a motor vehicle with wheels. Most definitions of cars state that they run primarily on roads, Car seat, seat one to eight people, have four wheels, and mainly transport private transport#Personal transport, peopl ...

, the first experimental steam automobiles were termed steam quadricycles * Low-speed vehicle, referred to in some countries as a quadricycle *

Quadricycle The Quadricycle was an early form of automobile. Earliest models were propelled by a small steam engine, then designers switched to early internal combustion engines as they became available. The word is derived from the fact that it had four ...

, European classifications for light four-wheeled motorized vehicles: light quadricycles, category L6e, and (heavy) quadricycles, category L7e : In 21st century France, a quadricycle is a 4-wheel car that cannot go faster than , weighs less than , and has a maximum power of .WIRED – France Is Letting 14-Year-Olds Drive This Tiny Electric Car
at wired.com, accessed 8 May 2018 (Comparable to the low-speed vehicle class in the United States.) *

Quadracycle A quadracycle (also spelled quadricycle) is a four-wheeled human-powered land vehicle. It is also referred to as a quadcycle, pedal car or four-wheeled bicycle amongst other terms. Quadracycles have been in use since 1853 and have grown int ...

, a four-wheeled style of cycle *

Velomobile A velomobile (); velomobiel, velo, or bicycle car is a human-powered vehicle (HPV) enclosed for Aerodynamics, aerodynamic advantage and/or protection from weather and collisions. Velomobiles are similar to recumbent bicycles, pedal go-karts and ...

, an enclosed human-powered vehicle

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