 The first practical automobile with a petrol engine was built by Karl Benz in 1885 in Mannheim, Germany.In 1984 British Leyland sold its Jaguar car business into private ownership.British Leyland's mass-market car division, the Austin Rover Group, scrapped one of its longest-running marques, Morris, which was discontinued in August after the Ital was replaced by the new Austin Montego – a saloon version of the previous year's new Maestro hatchback.