Mercedes' test drive started for the first time on 22nd November, know the history behind the name
Mercedes test drive started on 22nd November itself. Let us now tell you how it got its name and when the Mercedes brand name was legally registered. The car was specially made for its buyer, Emil Jelinek, who was an entrepreneur with a passion for fast and attractive cars. Let us tell you about it in more detail.
Today's History... Do you know that the first test drive of a luxury car started on this day? Yes, today we are going to tell you about this interesting history through this news. The name of the luxury car being talked about is Mercedes. On this day itself, on 22nd November, the company started its test drive. Let us now tell you how it got its name and when the Mercedes brand name was legally registered.
On 22 November 1990, the first car to be produced under the Mercedes name was driven to its inaugural drive in Cannstatt, Germany. The car was built specifically for its buyer, Emil Jellinek, an entrepreneur with a passion for fast, exotic cars. Jelinek had the Mercedes car built by the German company Daimler-Motoren-Gesellschaft.
It was lighter and much smoother than any car the company had made before, and Jellinek was confident that it would win races so easily that people would be so eager to buy the car as soon as they saw it, and so they did. Now let's talk about how it got its name... So the company agreed to name its new machine after Jelinek's 11-year-old daughter, Mercedes, so this is how this luxury car got its name.
