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Great Facts About Mercedes-Benz
10 Great Facts About Mercedes-Benz
Mercedes-Benz of Hagerstown – 10 Great Facts About Mercedes-Benz
If you love your Mercedes-Benz, then you will probably also love these great facts about the brand! Check them out, and then share your thoughts (or more fun facts) with us on our Facebook!
- The modern automobile was invented by Karl Benz, with his patent of the “Motorwagen” in 1886. His wife funded his work.
- Her name was Bertha Ringer Benz, and she took the first road trip in a modern car – 130 miles round trip with her sons.
- Karl Benz had the first ever driver’s license!
- The first car in the country of Nepal was a Mercedes-Benz, given to its king in 1940.
- The logo of the company represents air, land, and water. The company thought about adding a fourth point to the star to represent space, but decided not to.
- Pope Benedict XVI’s Popemobile (yes, that’s the real name) was a Mercedes-Benz.
- The “Mercedes” part of Mercedes-Benz was named after Emil Jellinek’s daughter Mercedes in 1901. Jellinek was an automobile entrepreneur at the time who worked with the company.
- Mercedes-Benz vehicles are manufactured in 30 countries around the world.
- Not only do Mercedes-Benz vehicles help us get around in the day-to-day, but they also feature on racetracks around the world as high-performance race cars.
- Mercedes-Benz vehicles were the first to have brakes on all four wheels, beginning in 1924. Safe!
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