2009-09-06T11:18:00.000-07:00

The German small town Stuttgart is well-known for red wines and cars: here superpenalties of the famous brands Mercedes-Benz and Porsche are made, that does Stuttgart rather attractive in opinion of tourists. Sights of Stuttgart - museum Mercedes-Benz amazing with a combination of futuristic style of an interior and set of the rare exhibits. The exhibition in museum Mercedes-Benz traces history of a brand from the moment of occurrence of first car Daimler-Motoren-Gesellschaft on December, 22nd, 1900 up to modelling of some 2006 when the museum has been opened. As a whole in a museum it is exposed the order of 160 cars Mercedes-Benz. One more museum, obligatory for visiting - the museum of brand Porsche which has opened rather recently - in January of this year. As well as museum Mercedes-Benz, this is devoted to history of a brand and differs a little bit smaller, but rather entertainment number of cars. In total in museum Porsche it is exposed the order 80 supercars a legendary brand, including model Porsche 356, 550, 911 and 917. The glory of the manufacturer of high-quality red wines of Stuttgart is confirmed with a small museum of wine: huge ancient wine kegs for storage of spirits and the unique opportunity personally to try the well-known red wines in a bar at a museum which, generally, are never exported for limits of Germany.

2009-01-22T12:14:00.000-08:00

Gottlieb Daimler and Carl Benz were born only 60 miles apart in southern Germany. Daimler was born March 17, 1834. A decade later, on November 25, Carl Benz was born.
Although they grew up with little in common, both boys were fascinated by machines from an early age. Because their approach to building cars was quite different, it is doubtful, though, that they met or even knew what the other was doing.
In 1886, Carl Benz built a motorized tricycle. His first four-wheeler, the Victoria, was built in 1893. The first production car was the 1894 Benz Velo which participated in the first recorded car race, the Paris-Rouen race. In 1895, Benz built his first truck.
In 1886, Gottlieb Daimler literally built a horseless carriage. In 1888 Daimler made a business deal with William Steinway (of piano fame) to produce Daimler's products in the US. From 1904 until a fire in 1907, Steinway produced Mercedes passenger cars, Daimler's light trucks, and his engines on Long Island.
Ironically, history says Daimler, generally considered to be the father of modern automobiles never liked to drive, if, indeed he ever learned to drive. On March 6, 1990, Daimler died, leaving control of his company to his chief engineer Wilhelm Mayback.
By November 22 of that year, Daimler-Motoren-Gesellschat had produced a special car for Emil Jellinek. Jellinek named the car after his ten-year-old daughter Mercedes. Lighter and smaller, the new Mercedes had 35 hp and a top speed of 55 mph!
The 1903 Parsifil was Benz's answer to Mercedes. A two cylinder vertical engine produced a top speed of 37 mph in this car.
Aware of the promotional potential of racing, both Daimler and Benz entered many of them. However, up until 1908, Daimler had overshadowed Benz in racing endeavors. At the 1908 French Grand Prix, Benz took second and third place behind Lautenschlager driving a Mercedes. From that point on, both Benz and Daimler did well in racing.

Mercedes-Benz Muzeum