petrol. the internal combustion engine which runs on petrol was invented before the petrol powered car was, but petrol had been around for millions of years before that, just as crude oil buried deep underground.

It depends what you call a car, and what you call petrol. - "Petrol-EUM or crude oil is a naturally occurring, flammable liquid." - "Gasoline or petrol is a petroleum-derived liquid mixture, primarily used as fuel in internal combustion engines." - the distillation of petroleum, leading to various fuels such as kerosene was invented as early as in the 9th century - the first self-propelled mechanical vehicle or automobile able to carry a driver or a passenger was built in about 1769 by Nicolas-Joseph Cugnot. It used a steam engine. 1) "HISTORY The history of automobiles actually began about 4,000 years ago when the first wheel was used for transportation in India. In the early 15th century the Portuguese arrived in China and the interaction of the two cultures led to a variety of new technologies, including the creation of a wheel that turned under its own power. Steam Engine By the 1600s small steam-powered engine models had been developed, but it was another century before a full-sized engine-powered vehicle was created. In 1769 French Army officer Captain Nicolas-Joseph Cugnot built what has been called the first automobile. As early as 1801 successful but very heavy steam automobiles were introduced in England. Laws barred them from public roads and forced their owners to run them like trains on private tracks. A Stanley Steamer established a world land speed record in 1906 of 205.44 km/h (121.573 mph). Internal-Combustion Engine Development of lighter steam cars during the 19th century coincided with major developments in engines that ran on gasoline or other fuels. Because the newer engines burned fuel in cylinders inside the engine, they were called internal-combustion engines. In 1860 French inventor Jean-Joseph-Étienne Lenoir patented a one-cylinder engine that used kerosene for fuel. Two years later, a vehicle powered by Lenoir's engine reached a top speed of about 6.4 km/h (about 4 mph). In 1876 German engineer Nikolaus August Otto built a four-stroke gas engine, the most direct ancestor to today's automobile engines. In a four-stroke engine the pistons move down to draw fuel vapor into the cylinder during stroke one; in stroke two, the pistons move up to compress the vapor; in stroke three the vapor explodes and the hot gases push the pistons down the cylinders; and in stroke four the pistons move up to push exhaust gases out of the cylinders. In France, a company called Panhard-Levassor introduced a clutch and gears, and separate construction of the chassis, or underlying structure of the car, and the car body. French bicycle manufacturer Armand Peugeot saw the Panhard-Levassor car and designed an automobile using a similar Daimler engine Early Car history Electric car history of few decades in the 1800s, electric engines enjoyed great popularity because they were quiet and ran at slow speeds that were less likely to scare horses and people." Source and further information: http://www.cyberautocop.com/history-automobile.html (retrieved from cache: http://209.85.129.132/search?q=cache:9fzU0oqPenMJ:www.cyberautocop.com/history-automobile.html+What+came+first,+the+car+or+petrol&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=10 ) Further information: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automobile http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_automobile http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_steam_road_vehicles 2) "Petroleum (L. petroleum, from Greek πετρέλαιον, lit. "rock oil", first used in the treatise De Natura Fossilium published in 1546 by the German mineralogist Georg Bauer, known as Georgius Agricola) or crude oil is a naturally occurring, flammable liquid found in rock formations in the Earth consisting of a complex mixture of hydrocarbons of various molecular weights, plus other organic compounds." Source and further information: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petroleum 3) "Gasoline or petrol is a petroleum-derived liquid mixture, primarily used as fuel in internal combustion engines. It consists mostly of aliphatic hydrocarbons, enhanced with iso-octane or the aromatic hydrocarbons toluene and benzene to increase its octane rating. Small quantities of various additives are common, for purposes such as tuning performance or reducing emissions. Some mixtures also contain significant quantities of ethanol as a partial alternative fuel. Most current or former Commonwealth countries use the term "petrol", abbreviated from petroleum spirit. In North America, the word "gasoline" is the common term, where it is often shortened in colloquial usage to simply "gas." It is not a genuinely gaseous fuel (unlike, for example, liquefied petroleum gas, which is stored under pressure as a liquid, but returned to a gaseous state before combustion). The term petrogasoline is also used. In aviation, mogas, short for motor gasoline, is used to distinguish automobile fuel from aviation gasoline, or avgas. In British English, "gasoline" can refer to a different petroleum derivative historically used in lamps, but this usage is relatively uncommon." "Early uses: Before gasoline was used as fuel for engines, it was sold in small bottles as a treatment against lice and their eggs. At that time, the word Petrol was a trade name. This treatment method is no longer common because of the inherent fire hazard and the risk of dermatitis. In the United States, gasoline was also sold as a cleaning fluid to remove grease stains from clothing. Before dedicated filling stations were established, early motorists bought gasoline in cans to fill their tanks. The name gasoline is similar to that of other petroleum products of the day, most notably petroleum jelly, a highly purified heavy distillate, which was branded Vaseline. The trademark Gasoline was never registered, and thus became generic. Gasoline was also used in kitchen ranges and for lighting, and is still available in a highly purified form, known as camping fuel or white gas, for use in lanterns and portable stoves. During the Franco-Prussian War (1870–1871), pétrole was stockpiled in Paris for use against a possible German-Prussian attack on the city. Later in 1871, during the revolutionary Paris Commune, rumours spread around the city of pétroleuses, women using bottles of petrol to commit arson against city buildings. Etymology: The word "gasolene" was coined in 1865 from the word gas and the chemical suffix -ine/-ene. The modern spelling was first used in 1871. The shortened form "gas" for gasoline was first recorded in American English in 1905 and is often confused with the older words gas and gases that have been used since the early 1600s. Gasoline originally referred to any liquid used as the fuel for a gasoline-powered engine, other than diesel fuel or liquefied gas; methanol racing fuel would have been classed as a type of gasoline. The word "petrol" was first used in reference to the refined substance in 1892 (it was previously used to refer to unrefined petroleum), and was registered as a trade name by British wholesaler Carless, Capel & Leonard at the suggestion of Frederick Richard Simms. Carless's competitors used the term "motor spirit" until the 1930s, but never officially registered it as a trademark. It has also been suggested that the word gasoline was coined by Edward Butler in 1887. In Germany and some other European countries and in New Guinea Pidgin gasoline is called Benzin (German, Hungarian, Croatian, Danish and Turkish), Benzine in Dutch, Bensin (Swedish and Norwegian), Bensiini (Finnish), Benzyna (Polish), Benzina (Catalan) and (Italian), Benzină (Romanian), Бензин (Russian and Ukrainian), and other variants of this word. The usage derives from the chemical benzene, not from Bertha Benz, who used chemists' shops to purchase the gasoline for her famous drive from Mannheim to Pforzheim in 1888." Source and further information: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petrol "The earliest records of head lice treatment in the United States is from the early 1800’s." Source and further information: http://www.micronutra.com/journal/head-lice/history-of-head-lice-treatment "Petroleum was distilled by the Persian alchemist Muhammad ibn ZakarÄ«ya Rāzi (Rhazes) in the 9th century, producing chemicals such as kerosene in the alembic (al-ambiq), and which was mainly used for kerosene lamps. Arab and Persian chemists also distilled crude oil in order to produce flammable products for military purposes. Through Islamic Spain, distillation became available in Western Europe by the 12th century. It has also been present in Romania since the 13th century, being recorded as păcură." Source and further information: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petroleum#History "Gasoline was not invented, it is a natural by-product of the petroleum industry, kerosene being the principal product. Gasoline is produced by distillation, the separating of the volatile, more valuable fractions of crude petroleum. However, what was invented were the numerous processes and agents needed to improve the quality of gasoline making it a better commodity." Source and further information: http://inventors.about.com/od/gstartinventions/a/gasoline.htm

Which is the male ?

they probably both came at the same time