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| 1901 |
| | | Daimler cars launch a new brand, the Mercedes 35 hp, named after the ten-year-old daughter of the investor and distributor Emil Jellinek | |
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| 1901 |
| | | Ransome Eli Olds manufactures the Curved Dash Oldsmobile on assembly line principles in Detroit | |
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| 1902 |
| | | French automobile pioneer Leon Serpollet sets a new land speed record, driving a steam car at 75 mph along the Promenade des Anglais in Nice | |
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| 1902 |
| | | William K. Vanderbilt drives the first internal-combustion car to win the land speed record, at 76 mph at Ablis in France | |
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| 1902 |
| | | The first Aswan dam, at this time the world's largest, is completed on the Nile | |
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| 1903 |
| | | William Harley and three Davidson brothers begin the commercial production in Milwaukee of motorcycles, but complete only three by the end of the year | |
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| 1903 |
| | | Britain's first national motor show is organized at the Crystal Palace, moving two years later to Olympia | |
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| 1904 |
| | | Charles Rolls and Henry Royce meet in a historic encounter in Manchester and launch their first car, the Rolls-Royde 10 hp, later in this same year. | |
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| 1905 |
| | | English engineer Herbert Austin sets up a factory to manufacture cars at Longbridge, south of Birmingham | |
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| 1906 |
| | | The Simplon rail tunnel, the longest in the world (20 km), is opened between Switzerland and Italy | |
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