Friday, January 28, 2011

The car turns 125 years

This important anniversary is spoken for some time but it is tomorrow, January 29 that the car is celebrating its 125 years: the same day filed in 1886 Carl Benz in Mannheim, Germany, the patent for his three-wheeled vehicle, two large back and a smaller front, driven by a gasoline engine, the Patent Motor Car.

In the same year Gottlieb Daimler created a carriage motor instead of three wheels had four. While the machine patented by Benz can be considered the world's first vehicle powered by an engine, the Daimler motor carriage was really the first car on four wheels. It was a conventional carriage on which Daimler, along with Maybach, had installed a small 4-cylinder engine.

Benz and Daimler did not know but had the same idea, and their names became synonymous with car: Daimler-Benz. The Motor Car Benz was seen by many with suspicion and skepticism, was called "horseless carriage and no future." No one could have known that motor cars would change the way we live.

He had understood instead Emil Jellinek, a wealthy entrepreneur who lived in Nice, who ordered tens of Daimler and Maybach cars, but eight were few horses for him: this came in December 1900 the first car that can be described as modern, PS 35 horses that had just 35 and was called Mercedes, the name of one of the daughters of Jellinek.

Since then, Mercedes-Benz is not stopped in its path and is still engaged on several fronts by taking technical and commercial challenges for the future of the automotive world. Looking at the machine and comparing it with the Benz cars today we realize how much progress has been made: that thin tricycle had a single-cylinder engine 3 / 4 of a horse but it was the beginning of the era of mobility and innovation .

Relentless innovation: more powerful engines, now attentive to the problems of pollution, but also cars that offer the latest technology to go faster and faster and more convenient but also safer. Because what the car has managed to do was just go hand in hand with the times, adapt to different ages and the new demands of a hectic world that is constantly evolving.

In future, the challenge will be even more interesting: how will the cars of tomorrow we can already imagine him looking at the latest concepts and know the capabilities of the latest technologies. But surely the car will always amaze us.

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