Mercedes-Benz is a German mark of cars, buses and trucks of the company Daimler (previously known like Daimler-Benz and DaimlerChrysler). Mercedes-Benz is the manufacturer of cars more ancient of the world.

History

The origins of the company trace back to 1880, when Gottlieb Daimler and Karl Benz invented of independent form the engine of internal combustion for cars in the southwest of Germany. Gottlieb Daimler And Wilhelm Maybach, those who invented together the engine of 4 times, worked together in Cannstatt (a district of Stuttgart); Benz had his shop in Mannheim hover of Heidelberg. They do not exist registers that both inventors had known never.

In the starts of the 20th century, the cars Daimler built in Untertürkheim (a district of Stuttgart) were driven of successful form by an Austrian distributor called Emil Jellinek, that noted the cars under the name of his daughter, Mercedes. Afterwards to suggest some modifications of design, Jellinek promised to the company buy a big production of his vehicles under the condition to have the guarantee to be the exclusive distributor of Daimler for Austria, Hungary, France, Belgium and EE. UU., and that it could sell the new model under the name of "Mercedes". The change of name was very useful for prevenir legal problems, since Daimler had sold exclusive rights of use of the name and the technical concepts to companies in the outside, by which have been and are built cars of luxury in England under the mark Daimler. A fire that destroyed the ancient factory of pianos Steinway in New York that had been modernizada to produce cars Mercedes finished early with the dream of constructor Mercedes in the United States.

The rival companies "Daimler Motorengesellschaft" and "Benz & Cie." They began to cooperate between himself in the years 20 for lidiar with the economic crisis of these years, for finally merge in 1926 and create Daimler-Benz AG, which produced trucks and cars Mercedes-Benz. The logotype of the mark is the star plateada of three tips surrounded of a circle. The symbol appeared for the first time in a car Daimler of 1909. The laurels, symbols of the mark Benz were added in 1926 to symbolise the union of the two signatures. The flat ring that joins the three tips of the star was used for the first time in 1937. Reportedly, the star has his origin in a postcard that Daimler wrote to his daughter Mercedes indicating with her the point (on a plane) where was situated manufactures it of Bad Cannstatt. Comment also that with her signal earth, sea and air: elements in which the engines Daimler had been pioneering, and that symbolises the original research of Daimler to cater small and powerful useful engines to travel by any one of them. In spite of that it centred in terrestrial vehicles, Mercedes-Benz also built engines for launches and aeroplanes (civil and military), and even for zepelines.

The vehicles Mercedes-Benz have centred in a high state of quality and art in his designs. Like result, have been historically more expensive and manufactured in lower quantity that other cheaper vehicles. The company has cultivated carefully an image of technical superiority, quality and service in his designs, by what his cars have been frequently the election of the rich and famous. Although it has been more famous by his models of limousine and his cars of luxury, also have been built by MB a big number of excellent sportive. Examples of them were the SSK developed by Porsche, and the "Wings of seagull" (Gullwing) 300SL of 1954. On the other hand, Mercedes-Benz has produced also cars less expensive and with a main production. Interestingly, the prototypes of Volkswagen were built and tested in Stuttgart, in cooperation with Porsche. Before this, Mercedes-Benz also had built a small car with an engine trasero similar to the VW, but that it had not had at all of success, the 130 H.

His products have been known by the creation and introduction of the most advanced technologies, as the engine of injection and the ABS, between a lot of others.

The most important engineers of the company were Ferdinand Porsche and Wilhelm Maybach. Both abandoned the company to create his own model of car. Porsche Developed for Volkswagen the model Volkswagen Beetle, and Maybach, on the contrary, a sedán of luxury with his name. Daimler-Benz Would buy Maybach years afterwards.

In 1950 it presented the Class S the segment of big luxury of Mercedes Benz here was the S cupé that in 1999 was replaced by the CL.

In 1979 it launched the car todoterreno G with uses were a member of several countries. The decade of the 90 was a big decade of models for Mercedes Benz launched losa tourisms C and And and the sportive vehicle utilitario Class M.

In 1998 Daimler bought to Chrysler, in the 2006 launched the monovolumen R and the sportive utilitario GL. In 2007 Mercedes-Benz sold Chrysler to Ceberus that now is Chrysler Corporation.

In the Living room of the Car of Fráncfort of 2007, Mercedes-Benz presented the hybrid vehicle Mercedes-Benz F700.

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