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This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 15 December 2024. German luxury automotive brand This article is about the brand and the namesake vehicle manufacturer. For other uses, see Mercedes-Benz (disambiguation). Mercedes-Benz Product type Automotive Owner Mercedes-Benz AG (passenger cars and light commercial vehicles) Daimler Truck (heavy ...
According to the author of A History of Cars written for youth, the first "hood ornament" was a sun-crested falcon (to bring good luck) mounted on the Egyptian pharaoh Tutankhamun's chariot. [ 3 ] In the early years, automobiles had their radiator caps outside the hood and on top of the grille , which also served as an indicator of the ...
The Mercedes-Benz Group origin is in an Agreement of Mutual Interest signed on 1 May 1924 between Benz & Cie. ... DaimlerChrysler logo, 1998–2007.
This model was a significant advancement in the history of automobiles. The model was released for sale in 1901 under the name of Mercedes 35 hp and, because of the success of the model, DMG began to apply the name as a series to other models such as, Mercedes 8/11 hp and Mercedes 40 hp Simplex. Jellinek seems to have become obsessed with the ...
A new logo was created in 1926, consisting of a three pointed star (representing Daimler's motto: "engines for land, air, and water") surrounded by traditional laurels from the Benz logo, and the brand of all of its automobiles was labeled Mercedes-Benz. Model names would follow the brand name in the same convention as today.
Maybach (German:, MY-baakh) [1] is a German luxury car brand owned by and a part of Mercedes-Benz AG.The original company was founded in 1909 by Wilhelm Maybach and his son Karl Maybach, originally as a subsidiary of Luftschiffbau Zeppelin GmbH, and it was known as Luftfahrzeug-Motorenbau GmbH until 1999.
AMG logo on a Mercedes S 63 AMG (W222) AMG was founded as a racing engine forge in 1967 under the name AMG Motorenbau- und Entwicklungsgesellschaft mbH (German for 'AMG Engine Production and Development Limited') by former Mercedes-Benz engineers Hans Werner Aufrecht and Erhard Melcher in Burgstall an der Murr, near Stuttgart.
Mercedes-Benz, the post-1920 German brand of automobiles, engines, and trucks now owned by the Mercedes-Benz Group; Mercedes-AMG, a subsidiary of Daimler AG that builds customized and high performance Mercedes-branded automobiles; Mercedes-Benz in Formula One, the Mercedes Formula One racing team, currently known as Mercedes-AMG Petronas Motorsport