Mercedes-Benz

:This page is about the Mercedes-Benz brand of automobiles and trucks from the DaimlerChrysler automobile manufacturer. For other uses of the name Mercedes, see Mercedes.

Trivia

Mercedes-Benz claims all of the wood used in its modern automobiles is raised on tree farms. This claim has not been confirmed.

Related Topics:
Wood - Tree farm

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Michael McClure's song "Mercedes-Benz", famously sung a cappella by Janis Joplin, was intended as a gentle satire on materialism, but has been used in the company's advertising.

Related Topics:
Michael McClure - A cappella - Janis Joplin - Materialism

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On a BMW advertisement on German TV the driver of a BMW Z3 convertible raised his eyebrows after the first "buy me a Mercedes-Benz", and threw out the tape after "my friends all drive Porsches".

Related Topics:
BMW - Porsche

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Mercedes-Benz was the most popular brand name mentioned in Billboard Top 20 songs in 2003.

Related Topics:
Billboard Top 20 songs - 2003

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Since 1948, Mercedes-Benz has built the Unimog, or "Universal Motor Gerät", a 4WD truck. It features extreme offroad capability due to offset axles and elastic frame, drive shafts for numerous additional machines, hydraulic and pneumatic connections etc.

Related Topics:
1948 - Unimog - Universal Motor Gerät - Pneumatic

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Despite its high price, the Unimog is popular as allround work horse, as snow plow, expedition vehicle in desert, jungle and mountains, and it has won the truck class at high speed desert races like Paris-Dakar.

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The three-pointed star signifies that Daimler-Benz made engines used "in the air, on water and on land".

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The first factory to be built outside of Germany after WW2 was in Argentina. It originally built a massive number of Trucks. Some of which were slightly modified (by Mercedes Benz) to Truck-Busses, popularly named Colectivo (in Buenos Aires).

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The "New Russians" cliche includes driving Mercedes S 600, see .

Related Topics:
New Russians - Mercedes S 600

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Selected significant past models

• 1954: 300SL "Gullwing" Roadster
• 1960: 220SE Cabriolet
• 1963: 600 "Grand Mercedes"
• 1966: 300SEL 6.3
• 1969: C111 experimental vehicle
• 1974: 450SEL 6.9
• 1974: 240D
• 1975: 280
• 1976: 300D
• 1983: 190E 2.3-16