The History of Mercedes Benz
The History of Mercedes BenzIn January 1886, Karl Benz created the first automobile. It is a German manufacturer that produced luxury automobiles, as well as buses, trucks, and coaches. The Daimler AG is the oldest automobile company in the world. In 1901, Gottlieb Daimler and Wilhelm Maybach a rival auto manufacturer of Benz produced the first Mercedes, and in 1926, both Daimler and Benz formed a merger of the two companies know as the Daimler Benz Company and together produced the first Mercedes Benz, and in the next few years made many safety and technological changes that are still in use today.Over 130 countries carry a wide variety of trucks and other commercial autos. Mercedes Benz has a reputation for durability and quality and in 2007 won 4th place in the J.D. Powers Quality Study, taking the lead away from Toyota. This prompted Mercedes Benz to make even more improvement in 2008 and brought them to 3rd place.Before the merge with Benz in 1926 both Daimler and Benz had entries in the first motor race, which ran from Paris to Rouen in 1894. The racing continued until the depression years and after the 1955 Le Mans disaster, where 8 spectators were killed when a Mercedes Benz collided with another car.Mercedes which got its name from an Austrian dealer who had become so impressed with the work of Daimler he wanted to make a large order under the stipulation that the cars name would be named after his daughter “Mercedes”. The symbol of the Mercedes Benz is a three pointed silver star, with a circle around it, which represented Daimler’s original idea to make an engine that had a lot of power yet would be small and reliable. His intention was to build engines for land, sea and air, which he accomplished. Mercedes cars were used by many celebrities because just being in one of these Mercedes cars meant that a person had prestige. Mercedes Benz was always using far more technologies that its competitors, as they were the first company to add anti lock brakes and a fuel injection system. However they became over zealous when they tried to use a different kind of brake system and installed it in over 600,000 cars and had so many problems with the system they had to recall them, this cost the company millions of dollars. This recall went against the company’s reputation for not having reliability in their autos.Mercedes Benz also manufactures other vehicles other than cars; they have their large 4 wheel drive, all terrain, truck which is used all over the world from jungles to snow capped mountains, yet it still maintains its high price tag. Mercedes Benz also has a variety of vans and SUV’s for the family, these vans very in the size and weight capacity for industrial use as well.
