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Mercedes-Benz

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9ff

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What we compare	Mercedes-Benz	9ff
Country in archive	Germany	Germany
Founded	June 28, 1926	2001
Founder	Karl Benz and Gottlieb Daimler (through Benz & Cie. and Daimler-Motoren-Gesellschaft)	Jan Fatthauer
Headquarters	Stuttgart, Baden-Württemberg, Germany	Dortmund, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
Name origin	Mercedes comes from Mercédès Jellinek, the daughter of the Austrian entrepreneur Emil Jellinek, who sold Daimler cars and raced them under the name Mercedes. Benz comes from Karl Benz, whose company Benz & Cie. merged with Daimler-Motoren-Gesellschaft in 1926 to form Daimler-Benz.	Wikipedia does not explain where the name 9ff comes from. It does record that the company was founded by Jan Fatthauer and that it specializes in Porsche conversions. The 9 may allude to the Porsche 911 line, but that is an assumption and not a documented fact.
Selected models	Mercedes 35 hp, SSK, W125, 300 SL, S-Class, G-Class	GT9, Speed9, GTurbo
Earliest archived brand logo	1926	2001
Latest archived logo	2011	2021
Archived logo assets	9	2

Logo dates are archive labels; symbols dated before a brand's founding are excluded from its earliest-logo date. Asset counts include all archived variants, not just redesigns. A dash means a value is unavailable.

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