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ABT

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Mercedes-Benz

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What we compare	ABT	Mercedes-Benz
Country in archive	Germany	Germany
Founded	1991	June 28, 1926
Founder	Abt family	Karl Benz and Gottlieb Daimler (through Benz & Cie. and Daimler-Motoren-Gesellschaft)
Headquarters	Kempten im Allgäu, Bavaria, Germany	Stuttgart, Baden-Württemberg, Germany
Name origin	ABT is the surname of the Abt family of Kempten im Allgäu. The family business goes back to 1896, when Johann Baptist Abt's blacksmith and horseshoeing tradition began, and Abt Sportsline GmbH was founded in 1991.	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.
Selected models	Audi A4 DTM, Audi R8 LMS GT3, Abt R8 GTR	Mercedes 35 hp, SSK, W125, 300 SL, S-Class, G-Class
Earliest archived brand logo	—	1926
Latest archived logo	1990s	2011
Archived logo assets	1	9

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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