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      The A-Class

      Between temptation and reason.

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      The B-Class Sports Tourer

      Designed to fit your life

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      The C-Class Saloon

      Experience a car like no other

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      The CL-Class Coupé

      A masterpiece from Mercedes Benz

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      The CLC-Class Sports Coupé

      Dynamism at its most alluring

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      CLK-Class Cabriolet

      Dynamism at its most alluring

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      The CLS-Class Coupé

      The technology of seduction

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      The E-Class Saloon

      See Mercedes-Benz in a new light.

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      The G-Class Cabriolet

      A modern classic

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      The GL-Class Off-Roader

      Off-road driving with on-road feel.

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      M-Class Off-roader

      Refined power.

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      The R-Class SUV Tourer

      The new form of space travel

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      The S-Class Saloon

      Looking ahead, driving ahead

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      The SL-Class Roadster

      The legendary sports car

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      The SLK-Class Roadster

      All you need for an enjoyable drive

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      The SLR Coupé

      The rebirth of a legend

Eponymous engineers

Emil Jellinek and the Week of Nice

Mercedes is a female Spanish name and means "mercy". Mercedes was also the name of the daughter born to Austrian businessman, Emil Jellinek, who lived in Baden near Vienna and in Nice, in 1889.

Jellinek, a progressive gentleman who was interested in sport, was an enthusiastic champion of technical progress and the automobile. He was convinced that the automobile would shape the future. As early as 1897 he travelled to Cannstatt and ordered his first Daimler car, a six-horsepower belt-driven vehicle with a two-cylinder engine.

After taking delivery in October 1897, the 24 km/h maximum speed of this car was soon too slow for Jellinek. He wanted a top speed of 40 km/h and ordered two Daimler Phoenix models with a front-mounted eight-horsepower engine. These two cars delivered in September 1898 were the world's first road vehicles equipped with a four-cylinder engine.

As a businessman, Emil Jellinek enjoyed good relations with international financial circles and the aristocracy: in 1898 he began to sell Daimler automobiles to the members of high society. In 1899 Daimler-Motoren-Gesellschaft (DMG) already delivered ten vehicles to Jellinek and in 1900 this increased to no less than 29.

Jellinek urged DMG to produce increasingly powerful and fast vehicles and from 1899 he entered them for racing events – above all the Week of Nice. He usually entered these races under the pseudonym "Mercedes", the name of his ten year-old daughter. Although the name became increasingly well-known amongst automobile lovers, Jellinek initially used it only as a team or driver name, not as a brand name.

In early April 1900, DMG and Jellinek concluded an agreement concerning the sale and distribution of Daimler cars and engines. When the decision was taken to develop a new engine bearing the name "Daimler-Mercedes", Jellinek's pseudonym also became a product name. Two weeks later Jellinek ordered 36 vehicles for a total price of 550,000 marks – roughly three million euros according to today's value. This was a very large order by any standards. A few weeks later he ordered a further 36 vehicles, all with eight-horsepower engines.