mammikoura
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Brookfield said:by the way d'you know why "Mercedes Benz"? Benz named them after his daughter, Mercedes.
I think it was some other dudes daughter, not his.
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In 1899, DMG automobiles built at Untertürkheim (a city district of Stuttgart) were raced successfully by Emil Jellinek (1853-1918), an automobile enthusiast and dealer. He had the name of his daughter, Mercedes, painted on the automobiles for good luck. Wanting faster race cars, it was Jellinek who spurred the development of the seminal 1900 DMG model that would be the first of the DMG Mercedes series, bearing the name of his daughter.
from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercedes_Benz#History