Where Your Mercedes-Benz and Porsche Were Born

Where Your Mercedes-Benz and Porsche Were Born
“And all the cars actually run and participate in hundreds of events worldwide every year.”
Both museums touch on World War II and the roles that Mercedes
and Ferdinand Porsche played, with Mercedes devoting part of a ramp wall explaining its use of forced labor and the allied bombing of its plants.
You can follow the development of Porsche’s models, from the design ultimately used for the Volkswagen Beetle,
first created by Ferdinand Porsche, the company founder, to the car that defines the company, the 911.
Within a few years cars started to look like cars instead of horse-drawn carriages
— for example the museum’s 1902 40 HP, the oldest-existing Mercedes-branded car.
Still, the industry used carriage types to describe its models, like phaeton (a light, open carriage), shooting brake (a carriage meant for gamekeepers
and sportsmen) and cabriolet (a light carriage with a foldable hood drawn by one horse).