Explosion of a Motor Car (AKA: The Delights of Automobiling) is a 1900 British silent comic trick film, directed by Cecil M. Hepworth, featuring an exploding automobile scattering the body parts of its driver and passenger.

It is included in the BFI DVD Early Cinema: Primitives and Pioneers and a clip is featured in Paul Merton's interactive guide to early British silent comedy How They Laughed on the BFI website.

As the car approaches it is seen to contain a male driver and three high-spirited female passengers waving handkerchiefs towards the camera.

The car reaches the foreground and explodes without warning, leaving a smouldering pile of twisted wreckage.

Unperturbed, the helpful policeman takes out his notebook and begins the task of reassembling the assorted body parts, still neatly clothed, into identifiable human beings, conscientiously making notes as he goes.