German Car Brands
- The history of German car companies began when they began to produce high-quality vehicles, and the characteristics of cars were valued more than their ap-pearance.
- At the same time, the engineer Karl Friedrich Michael Benz worked on the creation of the first car, which was a carriage with a small engine.
- The luxury segment of the German car industry is divided into the brand, producing the high-end cars, and the companies, working on special tuning.
- BMW Founded: 1916 Founder: Karl Rapp, Gustav Otto BMW is a famous German automaker, whose main specialization is the production of cars, sports cars, SUVs, and motorcycles.
- Mercedes-Benz Founded: 1926 Founder: Karl Benz The history of the famous luxury automaker began as a result of the reorganization of two German companies.
- Both developed themselves in parallel and 1901 Daimler produced cars under the created brand “Mercedes”.
- Porsche Founded: 1931 Founder: Ferdinand Porsche The history of the luxury German brand Porsche began in 1931, when Ferdinand Porsche, a famous designer of the time, who worked at Auto Union and Daimler, decided to establish his car brand.
- Sports Car Brands Now German automakers are popular and respected even as sports car manufac-turers.
- In addition to producing cars of their design, the company’s specialists are involved in design developments on orders from various car companies.
- In the first years of its existence, the company specialized in creating projects for other car companies, successfully cooperating with the Opel Group.
- Car Tuning Brands German tuning and restyling ateliers are definitely some of the most famous across the globe.
- Since 1996 the brand works with Audi.
- Today the brand produces not only high-performance cars but also ac-cessories and engines for racing models.
- The Sport division was established in 1983 with the idea of the design and production of racing models for the famous brand.
- The brand is one of the German Tuning Big Four and works mainly with the cars of such iconic brands as BMW and Mercedes-Benz.
- 9ff Founded: 2001 Founder: Jan Fatthauer 9ff is the name of one of the world’s major tuning ateliers engaged in improving Porsche cars.
- Mass-Market Car Brands German automaking industry is pretty unusual — most of the market is taken by luxury and sports car branded as well as various luxury tuning ateliers.
- Daimler Founded: 1886 Founder: Gottlieb Daimler The history of Daimler begins in 1871, when the headquarters were founded in Stuttgart, Germany.
- He started his activity by organizing a small company in Germany for the production of steam-powered cars, called DKW.
- The brand started its activities pretty fast and ambitious, and already in 2004, Gumpert began to work on the Apollo model.
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