Milestone vehicles from Mercedes-Benz at the 2011 Techno-Classica

OFFICIAL PRESS RELEASEStuttgart, Germany, Mar 24, 2011Benz Patent Motor Car, 1886On 29 January 1886, Carl Benz files a patent application for his “vehicle with gas engine operation”. Patent application DRP 37,435 can be regarded as the birth certificate of the automobile and helps to coin the name “patent motor car”. The world’s first automobile is an independent design in which engine and