Mercedes-Benz traces its origins to Carl Benz's first internal combustion engine in a car, seen in the Benz Patent-Motorwagen patented in Jan 1886 & Gottlieb Daimler and its engineer Wilhelm Maybach's conversion of a stagecoach, with the addition of a petrol engine, introduced later that year. The Mercedes automobile was first marketed in 1901 by Daimler Motoren Gesellschaft (DMG). As of the Daimler AG company split, the Mercedes-Benz Cars division now handles the Mercedes-Benz and the Smart branded cars' production

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