10 facts about Mercedes Benz cars
- The Mercedes-Benz motto is “Das Beste oder Nichts” meaning “the best or nothing”.
- Mercedes-Benz is a German manufacturer of luxury automobiles, buses, coaches, and trucks.
- 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.
- South Africa is the sole producer of the Mercedes Benz, C Class, right hand drive vehicles.
- Mercedes have won 35 Grand Prix titles as constructor. The Mercedes car is named after the daughter of its first buyer, Emil Jellinek.
- A typical restoration (for example, of a 600 Series sedan) might take one to 1½ years and cost up to €750,000.
- Mercedes-Benz was the first to introduce pre-tensioners to seat belts on the 1981 S-Class. In the event of a crash, a pre-tensioner will tighten the belt instantaneously, removing any 'slack' in the belt, which prevents the occupant from jerking forward in a crash
- Mercedes-Benz has its origins in Karl Benz's creation of the first petrol-powered motorcycle in January 1886, and by Gottlieb Daimler and engineer Wilhelm Maybach's conversion of a 1873 Bollée steam-engine automobile by the addition of a petrol engine the same year.
- The seats in the Mercedes-Benz cars were designed and shaped in consultation .with leading orthopedic physicians. These contoured, firmly upholstered seats envelop you-supporting vital kidney, back and knee-joint areas.
- In September 2003, Mercedes-Benz introduced the world's first seven-speed automatic transmission called '7G-Tronic'
