[Kaslin]

Who was the Mercedes Benz named after?

[Paladin2]

The lovely Mercedes, of course.

[IYAS9YAS]

Mercedes was the name of the daughter of a racer who drove early DMG cars (Daimler Motoren Gesellschaft). The brand name Mercedes-Benz was owned by the production company Daimler-Benz, which was formed when DMG merged with Benz & Cie.

I knew the Mercedes name was from someone's daughter, but had to look up that said someone, and the full history of how the name "Mercedes-Benz" came to be.

[wildandcrazyrussian]

http://www.all-mercedes-benz.com/Mercedes_Benz_History.html

"Mercedes" was the 10-year-old daughter of the very first auto dealer in the world, Emil Jellinek, when he ordered over 35 Daimler-Benz cars to handle, and put her name on the vehicles. The prototype internal combustion machine had been patented in 1885 by Karl Benz, and the gas engine by Gottlieb Damiler that same year.

Speaking of cars, the Frick Museum in Pittsburgh PA has an 1898 French luxury car, which looks fantastic.