English to Portuguese Tech/Engineering Automotive / Cars & Trucks

Vehicles equipped with internal combustion engine, which were called “horseless carriages” when they first appeared at the end of nineteenth century, have always stimulated a desire to compete, to measure oneself and to reach faster and faster seeds, much higher than those that could be reached with horse-drawn carriages, and comparable only to those of trains, which did not travel on the battered streets of the time, but instead darted on the safer and smoother flowing railroad tracks.

Any ideas? I appreciate!