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Mercedes-Benz

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ABT

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What we compare	Mercedes-Benz	ABT
Country in archive	Germany	Germany
Founded	June 28, 1926	1991
Founder	Karl Benz and Gottlieb Daimler (through Benz & Cie. and Daimler-Motoren-Gesellschaft)	Abt family
Headquarters	Stuttgart, Baden-Württemberg, Germany	Kempten im Allgäu, Bavaria, 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.	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.
Selected models	Mercedes 35 hp, SSK, W125, 300 SL, S-Class, G-Class	Audi A4 DTM, Audi R8 LMS GT3, Abt R8 GTR
Earliest archived brand logo	1926	—
Latest archived logo	2011	1990s
Archived logo assets	9	1

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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