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Mercedes-Benz Innovations
Posted by admin in Mercedes-Benz on June 1, 2011
Mercedes-Benz, a subsidiary company of the Daimler AG parent company, is a German based automotive manufacture which produces car, buses, vans and trucks. Having its roots in the very foundation of the automobiles history, the Mercedes-Benz brand has well established heritage and prestige within the market place. The creation of the first automobile by Karl Benz was followed by the first marketed automobile by Mercedes at the turn of the century. The forward thinking company has developed a vast number of innovations over the course of its history, benefiting both the technological standard of the vehicles performance, and the safety of its passengers. Listed below is a collection of innovations thought to have been developed by Mercedes Benz, with many know common in most modern cars and transport vehicles.
- The technology which ceases the drive wheels from spinning was patented, later to be used to develop a traction control system in late eighties.
- Anti-locking brakes were developed by Mercedes-Benz, and were introduced in the eighties.
- Air bags were introduced by the innovative company is the early eighties, a technology which would go onto save a countless number of lives.
- In 1951, Mercedes developed the highly important safety cage, which vastly improved transport safety from then onwards, with the front and rear of the vehicles composing of crumple zones. This innovation has vastly improved vehicle safety, and Mercedes Benz has allowed its competitors to implement such technology in their cars to improve overall road safety, although the technology itself was developed and tested by MB.
- The Mercedes-Benz McLaren is the fastest automatic production road car ever, with a top speed in excess of two hundred miles per hour. Read the rest of this entry »
History of Mercedes-Benz
Posted by admin in Mercedes-Benz on June 1, 2011
We see a lot of cars nowadays with the brand name Mercedes-Benz. This has been very popular since a lot of people say that this manufacturer makes cars for quality and durability.
More than a century ago, a man named Gottlieb Daimler was born. After a decade, Carl Benz followed. Both were born in Germany but they were 60 miles apart. At a very age, both boys were exposed to machines. Their approaches to building cars were quite different that is why it is doubtful that they met few years back when they started having the Mercedes Benz.
During the year 1886, Benz built a motorized tricycle followed by his very first four-wheeler in 1893. In 1886 also, Daimler built a horseless carriage. Two years later he made a business deal with William Steinway to produce his products in the US. For 3 years Steinway produced Mercedes cars and light trucks.
Unfortunately, Daimler died in the year 1990, leaving his company to his chief engineer, Wilhelm Mayback. On the same year, there was a special car produced for Emil Jellinek. He then named the car Mercedes after his 10-year old daughter. The counterpart of the Mercedes was Parsifil by Benz which was created on the year 1903.
Both of them became did well at racing. From the start of World War I, both were converted to production sites for war materials.
After the war in Germany, there was a falling economy. There was little or no fuel for cars. Luxury tax of 15% made the production of automobile very disastrous. Because of this, Benz and Cie sought for a strong partner. They considered DMG but the merge was not successful. The economy went worse and there were only a few cars being registered in the year 1923. In the US, over ½ were Fords, Benz and Cie while DMG only built about 1000. Because of great economic necessity, Benz and DMG decided to sign an “Agreement of Mutual Interest” but they still managed to retain their individual identities. This agreement was valid until the year 2000. Read the rest of this entry »