The Mercedes-Benz brand belongs to Daimler, and many people may not know why. Let’s just use the year for the following words~~

Karl Benz and Gottlieb Daimler are both the founders of the automobile, just like Wright who invented the airplane

Like brothers.

Carl Benz

As early as 1883, Carl Benz founded the "Benz Company and Rhine Gas Engine Factory".

Later in 1885, Carl Benz designed a three-wheeled car equipped with a gasoline engine, but the car at this time was not the four-wheeled car seen on the street today.

On January 29, 1886, Carl Benz obtained the patent. Therefore, the Germans call 1886 the year of the birth of the automobile.

Gotlip Daimler

At the end of 1886, Daimler, with the assistance of Wilhelm Maybach, installed his own engine on a four-wheeled carriage. Engine, this is the world's first four-wheeled vehicle. At the same time, Gotlip Daimler, the inventor of the world's first four-wheeled vehicle, is also known as the "Father of the World's Automobiles".

In 1890, he founded Daimler Automobile Company in Stuttgart. In the same year, Wilhelm Maybach became the chief engineer of Daimler Automobile Company

In Benz and Daimler, After Muller invented the modern automobile respectively, the two companies began to bring their products to the market.

In 1894, Mercedes-Benz launched the world's first gasoline engine public car

In 1896, Daimler launched the world's first gasoline-powered truck.

Emile Jelinek

In 1887, a man named Emile Jelinek was the Austrian Consul General living in Nice, France, and he was also a wealthy businessman. Emil heard that Daimler had manufactured a car with advanced performance and four wheels. Emil was very interested in this and went on a discovery trip to Stuttgart. As soon as he got off the train, he discovered that there was a kind of car in the local area. A car called "Doppel Phaeton", and this car was none other than a car owned by Daimler. Emil also took a ride in this car, which left a deep impression on him, and he immediately decided to buy one. When the car went back to Austria, he wrote a letter to Daimler's Maybach at that time, saying that he was quite satisfied with Daimler's car, but it just didn't have enough horsepower. The "Doppel Phaeton" car at that time meant four A light carriage with three wheels, only 6 horsepower, it can be said that riding a bicycle is faster than it. After Maybach learned about it, he immediately changed his mind and moved towards the concept of high power. More than a year later, Emil was impressed by the facelifted car. He was very satisfied with the model and recommended it to his aristocratic relatives and placed a lot of purchase orders with Daimler. Considering that Emil was very powerful, Daimler authorized him to be a dealer. As a result, Emil was The first car dealer was born, he was Emil Jelinek.

More than ten years later, in 1898, Emil ordered three new Daimler "Phoenix" cars, named after his daughter's "Mercedes", which he happened to drive. He took "Mercedes" to participate in a local mountain bike competition and won third place. He felt that his daughter's name brought good luck, so he suggested that Daimler name all its cars after Mercedes. Firstly, the name Mercedes is really nice, and secondly, Daimler also hopes to rely on this Austrian aristocrat to open up the Austrian market, so the two parties hit it off, and Mercedes became the name of all Daimler cars that year~ ~

In April 1898, Maybach successfully researched and launched a car called "Mercedes", which had 35 horsepower and more comfortable seats. Unexpectedly, Daimler's car sales increased significantly, as if it was blessed by the goddess of luck. Since then, Daimler's car brand has had a fixed name - Mercedes.

The good times did not last long. Due to the First World War, Germany fell into unprecedented difficulties. The economy declined and car sales dropped significantly, which greatly affected the development of the industry. At the same time, a new country emerged on the other side of the Atlantic. A powerful rival, the American Ford Motor Company, flooded the German market with cheap Ford cars, which can be said to make things worse.

In 1926, in order to survive and develop the automobile industry in the future, with the help of many parties, the two German automobile giants, Benz and Daimler, formally merged into Daimler. Muller-Benz Automobile Company, their product Mercedes brand cars were also changed to Mercedes-Benz in 1989, and are affiliated with Daimler-Benz Industrial Group.