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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.
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Maybach I was built starting in 1937. In December 1939, it was fully operational. [4] The complex consisted of twelve three-storey buildings above ground designed to look from the air like local housing, [5] and two floors of interlinked bunkers with two-foot thick walls below.
Karl Benz (1844–1929) made the 1886 Benz Patent Motorwagen, which is widely regarded as the first automobile.. Mercedes-Benz traces its origins to Karl Benz's first internal combustion engine in a car, seen in the Benz Patent Motorwagen – financed by Bertha Benz's dowry [10] and patented in January 1886 [11] – and Gottlieb Daimler and their engineer Wilhelm Maybach's conversion of a ...
In 2002 the Maybach brand name was revived for a luxury make but it was not successful. On 25 November 2011 Daimler-Benz announced they would cease producing automobiles under the Maybach brand name in 2013. [1] In 2014, Daimler announced production of an ultra-luxury edition of the Mercedes-Benz S-Class under the new Mercedes-Maybach brand. [2]
First logo of the 'Mercedes' brand by DMG, 1901 Jellinek competed as a driver, painting "Mercedes" (Spanish for godsend ), on the automobiles he raced after his 10-year-old daughter. Jellinek's pursuit of higher speed brought him to Stuttgart personally, to Wilhelm Maybach 's office where he also met with Paul Daimler , son of Gottlieb.
The Maybach Zeppelin was the Maybach company's Repräsentationswagen [i] model from 1928 to 1938. Named for the company's famous production of Zeppelin engines prior to and during World War I , it was an enormous luxury vehicle which weighed approximately 3,000 kg (6,600 lb).
The Wilhelm and Karl Maybach Foundation is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization that seeks to showcase Maybach engineering and design heritage to inspire innovation. Formerly, the organization linked mentors with protégés worldwide, fostering and overseeing those relationships. However, they are now shifting focus to other programs in Germany ...