Mercedes Cars in India

A woman who took her husband's invention for a drive and changed history. That is where Mercedes-Benz begins. In 1885, Karl Benz built something nobody had ever built before. A three-wheeled carriage powered by a petrol engine. It was noisy, slow, and looked like a bicycle mated with a horse cart. But it moved without a horse. That was the magic. Karl was an engineer. A brilliant one. But he was not a salesman. He drove his contraption around the factory yard, made adjustments, and worried constantly about whether it would work properly. His wife Bertha had no such doubts. In August 1888, Bertha took the Patent-Motorwagen without telling Karl. She packed her two teenage sons and set off from Mannheim to Pforzheim, about 100 kilometres away. The first long-distance road trip in history. She sol... More