Mercedes-Benz Cars

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Mercedes-Benz

Type	Division of Daimler AG
Founded	1881
Founder(s)	Gottlieb Daimler, Karl Benz
Headquarters	Stuttgart, Germany
Key people	Dieter Zetsche, CEO
Industry	Automotive industry
Products	Automobiles Trucks Buses Engines
Parent	Daimler AG
Website	Mercedes-Benz.com

Mercedes-Benz is a German manufacturer of automobiles, buses, coaches, and trucks. It is currently a division of the parent company,Daimler AG (formerly DaimlerChrysler AG), after previously being owned by Daimler-Benz. Mercedes-Benz has its origins in Karl Benz's creation of the first gasoline-powered automobile in January 1886,^[1] and by Gottlieb Daimler and engineer Wilhelm Maybach's conversion of a carriage by the addition of a petrol engine the same year. The Mercedes automobile was first marketed in 1901 by Daimler Motoren Gesellschaft. The first Mercedes-Benz brand name vehicles were produced in 1926, following the merger of Karl Benz's and Gottlieb Daimler's companies into the Daimler-Benz company.^[1] Mercedes-Benz has introduced many technological and safety innovations that have become common in other vehicles several years later.