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AUTOMOBILE HISTORY Benz began promotion of the vehicle on July 3, 1886 and approximately 25 Benz vehicles were sold between 1888 and 1893, when his first four-wheeler was introduced along with a model intended for affordability. * AUTOMOBILE HISTORY They were also powered with four-stroke engines of his own design. Because France was more open to the early automobiles, initially more were built and sold in France than sold in Germany. During the last years of the nineteenth century, Benz was the largest automobile company in the world. * AUTOMOBILE HISTORY Daimler and Maybach founded Daimler Motoren Gesellschaft (Daimler Motor Company, DMG) in Cannstatt in 1890 and under the brand name, Daimler, sold their first automobile in 1892. * Gottlieb Daimler 戈特利布·戴姆勒 AUTOMOBILE HISTORY This automobile was a horse-drawn stagecoach built by another manufacturer, but was retrofitted with an engine of their design. * AUTOMOBILE HISTORY Benz and the Maybach and Daimler team seem to have been unaware of each others early work. They never worked together. By the time of the merger of the two companies, Daimler and Maybach were no longer part of DMG. * AUTOMOBILE HISTORY Daimler died in 1900 and later that year, Maybach designed an engine named Daimler-Mercedes. This was a production of a small number of vehicles for Jellinek to race and market in his country. * AUTOMOBILE HISTORY Two years later, in 1902, a new model DMG automobile was produced and named Mercedes with the Maybach engine which generated 35 hp. Maybach quit DMG shortly thereafter and opened a business of his own. Rights to the Daimler brand name were sold to other manufacturers. * AUTOMOBILE HISTORY Karl Benz proposed cooperation between DMG and Benz Cie. when economic conditions began to deteriorate in Germany following the First World War, but the directors of DMG refused to consider it initially. * AUTOMOBILE HISTORY Negotiations between the two companies resumed several years later when these conditions wor