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Karl Benz (1844–1929) made the 1886 Benz Patent Motorwagen, which is widely regarded as the first automobile.. Mercedes-Benz traces its origins to Karl Benz's first internal combustion engine in a car, seen in the Benz Patent Motorwagen – financed by Bertha Benz's dowry [10] and patented in January 1886 [11] – and Gottlieb Daimler and their engineer Wilhelm Maybach's conversion of a ...
2016 Mercedes-Benz E-Class. 2015 Opel Astra. 2019 Porsche Taycan. 2017 Volkswagen Golf Mk7 Variant. Brand. Parent Company. Audi (1909-present) Volkswagen Group. BMW (1916-present)
Volkswagen AG ( German: [ˈfɔlksˌvaːgŋ̍] ⓘ ), known internationally as the Volkswagen Group, is a German public multinational conglomerate manufacturer of passenger and commercial vehicles, motorcycles, engines and turbomachinery. Headquartered in Wolfsburg, Lower Saxony, Germany, and since the late 2000s is a publicly-traded family ...
List of best-selling automobiles. The 1966 Volkswagen Beetle. It is the all-time best-selling car with only a single body style. Since the introduction of the Benz Patent Motorwagen in 1886, some passenger cars and light trucks can claim to being the highest selling vehicles in the automobile markets.
Ford-Werke GmbH[ 1] is a German-based car manufacturing company headquartered in Merkenich-Cologne, North Rhine-Westphalia. It is a fully-owned subsidiary of American Ford Motor Company. It operates two large manufacturing facilities in Germany, a plant in Cologne and a plant in Saarlouis, and serves as a major hub for Ford's presence in the ...
Trabant ( German: [tʁaˈbant] ⓘ) is a series of small cars produced from 1957 until 1991 by former East German car manufacturer VEB Sachsenring Automobilwerke Zwickau. Four models were made: the Trabant 500, Trabant 600, Trabant 601, and the Trabant 1.1. The first model, the 500, was a relatively modern car when it was introduced.
Benz Patent-Motorwagen. The Benz Patent-Motorwagen ("patent motorcar"), built in 1885 by the German Karl Benz, is widely regarded as the first practical modern automobile [ 1][ a] and was the first car put into production. [ 8] It was patented in January 1886 and unveiled in public later that year.
The Mercedes-Benz 770, also known as the Großer Mercedes (German for "Large Mercedes"), was a large luxury car built by Mercedes-Benz from 1930 until 1944. The second model (W150) is best known from its use by high-ranking officials of Nazi Germany and their allies before and during World War II, including Adolf Hitler, Hermann Göring, Heinrich Himmler, Reinhard Heydrich, Ion Antonescu ...