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On this page you can read everything you need to know about the legendary German luxury auto manufacturer, including descriptions of main Mercedes Benz models. Please follow links to more info about current and older Mercedes models as well as user reviews, prices guides and recommendations.
Mercedes-Benz is the worlds oldest and one of its most celebrated car makers and also a major manufacturer of buses, coaches and trucks. Mercedes, as it is commonly known, is part of the Daimler Chrysler company, formerly Daimler-Benz. The main models in the Mercedes range are luxury executive limousines and saloons although a number of prominent sports cars and coupes/convertibles have been made too. In recent years Mercedes has diversified into off road vehicles and SUVs as well as more compact vehicles. Mercedes has a considerable history in motorsport. Mercedes contested 72 Grands Prix between 1934 and 1955 and won 45 of them. In 1993 Mercedes started a new era of racing success by becoming official partner with the world famous team McLaren.
The company dates back to the 1880s when Gottlieb Daimler and Karl Benz invented the internal combustion engine-powered car independently of each other. Remarkably both engineers were based in South West Germany. Daimler and Wilhelm Maybach worked together in Stuttgart while Benz had a shop in Mannheim near Heidelberg. There is no record of the two meeting before their independent developments. In the 1920s the rival companies Daimler Motorengesellschaft and Benz & Cie finally began working together, before eventually merging in 1926 to form the Daimler-Benz AG. Since then Mercedes-Benz vehicles have developed a considerable reputation throughout the 20th and 21st Centuries for creating high class and innovative automobiles. Mercedes innovations include fuel injection and anti-lock braking systems. Because of the quality, innovation and luxury associated with Mercedes they are often expensive products.
