Well-known global brands are Mercedes Benz, BMW, Adidas, Audi, Porsche, Volkswagen, Bayer, Bosch, Lufthansa, SAP, and Nivea.

Audi, Mercedes, Opel, Studebaker, SEAT, Daewoo, Subaru, Zastava Automobiles and others have consulted Porsche Engineering Group for their cars or engines.

Audi will switch from their A4 model and use the A5, Mercedes will use the Coupe version of their C-Class and BMW have announced their addition to the competition with their M3 Coupe.

Fortune stated that the first Maybach models had poor driving dynamics compared to its contemporaries from Rolls-Royce and Bentley, as " Mercedes took an aging S-class chassis and plopped an absurdly elongated body on it ... rather than develop a new car from the wheels up, as BMW did with Rolls-Royce, or cleverly use the underpinnings of an existing model like the Audi A8 for a new Bentley ".

The then nearly new Auto Union plant at Ingolstadt, built under Mercedes ownership and control, was quickly adapted for Beetle assembly: Volkswagen boss Heinrich Nordhoff, mindful of the poor sales record of the DKW F102, and at a time when the new Audi F103 had yet to prove itself in the market place, gave instructions that no further new Auto Union ( including Audi ) models should be developed.

Audi, Volkswagen, Porsche, Mercedes, Vauxhall, Pontiac and BMW all fit Blaupunkt products into their cars, often branded with the car manufacturer's own mark ( e. g. The VW Gamma or Audi Symphony lines ), with Fiat using them, occasionally unbranded but generally unmodified.

Opel put the primary emphasis on cost control, Mercedes supported expensive competitiveness in development, BMW wanted an international series rather than one focussed on Germany only, while Audi insisted on allowing their trademark quattro four-wheel drive ( despite running the rear wheel drive Audi R8 ) in sports car racing.

Audi and Mercedes fielded 10 cars each in 2006, but the important television deal with the major television station ARD required three marques in 2007.

As of 2010, Mercedes have finally bridged the gap to Audi, as Paul di Resta has won the 2010 championship driving for AMG Mercedes.

In 2006 Vanina Ickx started racing for Audi and Susie Wolff for Mercedes.

Breakdown statistics reported by the German Automobile Club in May 2010 placed the Mercedes B-Class at the top of the lower middle-sized car class in respect of the low break-down rates achieved for cars aged between 0 and 4 years, narrowly beating the Audi A3 and the BMW 1-series.

TRD is similar to other in-house tuning shops, such as Mazdaspeed ( Mazda ), Nismo ( Nissan ), Ralliart ( Mitsubishi ), STi ( Subaru ), Ford Performance Vehicles ( Ford Australia ), Special Vehicle Team ( Ford North America ), Street and Racing Technology ( Chrysler ), Holden Special Vehicles ( Holden ), Mercedes ' AMG division, BMW " M " models, Audi " RS " models, Chevrolet's Super Sport, or Volvo R-Design models.

Concerns have been raised regarding the steering feel and weight, though, as evidenced by Car and Driver placing the M5 last in a three-way competition against the Mercedes E63 AMG and Audi S6, both of which also have biturbo V8 engines.

The Ventura SJ was marketed as an American rendition of a Euro-style luxury sport sedan that Pontiac created with the larger mid-sized Grand Am in 1973, as well as a competitor to the new-for-1975 Ford Granada and Mercury Monarch, both marketed as luxury compacts designed to compete with the more expensive imports such as Audi and Mercedes.

Following the front wheel drive vehicles, a rear wheel drive platform was contemplated which would have pushed Visionary into the Audi / BMW / Mercedes class of vehicles.

In 2009, the company released a new version on a rear-wheel drive platform aimed to compete with the BMW 7 Series, Mercedes S-Class, Audi A8 and Lexus LS.

* Affection for automobiles, especially older versions of the BMW 3, BMW 5, VW Golf ( most likely Mk2, recently also newer generations ), or the Opel Calibra, but also other older German cars ( as e. g. Mercedes W124 or Audi 80 ), or — in the case of the poorer dresiarze before accession to the European Union — a modified Polish Fiat 126p.

Mercedes vehicles flash the stop lamps for the ESS, while vehicles from the Volkswagen Group of manufacturers ( VW, Audi, SEAT & Skoda ) flash the hazard flashers.

However, they are permitted, and are found almost exclusively on European-brand vehicles in North America — Audi, Jaguar, Mercedes, MINI, Land Rover, Porsche, Saab and Volvo provide functional rear fog lights on their North American models.

" To that end the car was intended to match the substance of the Audi A6 and Mercedes E-class.

Michael Schumacher (; born 3 January 1969 ) is a German Formula One racing driver, currently driving for the Mercedes team.

Daimler Benz took over manufacture of the Unimog in 1951 and they are currently built in the Mercedes truck plant in Wörth am Rhein in Germany.

Another of Heydrich's Mercedes 320 Convertible B cars, similar to the one in which he was mortally wounded ( currently in the Military History Museum in Prague )

The unit is currently equipped with a number of vehicles including Mercedes and International pumpers and a speciality rapid rail response unit which is able to travel via the road and rail network for rescue operations.

Four Hero classes are currently available: Aran, Evan, Mercedes, and Phantom.

He is the new face for the Southern Nevada Water Authority conservation campaign and is currently in a national Mercedes commercial.

Robinson José Canó Mercedes (; born October 22, 1982 ) is a Dominican baseball player who currently plays as a second baseman for the New York Yankees of Major League Baseball.

Mercedes Sprinter delivery vans are currently used.

And I like Mercedes – with them I got my first chance to test a Formula 1 car in 1996 and who knows how my Formula 1 career had turned out if I had accepted the McLaren Mercedes offer to become their test driver for 1997 .“

On May 1967 the government created a commission composed by Luis Manuel Peñalver, Luis Carbonell, Mercedes Fermín, Miguel Angel Pérez and Héctor Isava to study the possibility of creating a new university that would offer studies to directly promote the economic and social development of the country.

Mexican HMMWVs are similar to the American built models but are slightly longer and feature a standard selective shift automatic transmission connected to a Mercedes Benz diesel engine and an anti-spalling layer in the passenger cabin.

* Mercedes Lackey's short stories Grey and Grey's Ghost feature an African Grey parrot who has a remarkable bond with her owner.

At this time all Mercedes cars used fuel injection and the company felt it was not necessary to add this as a distinguishing feature.

The 1995 McLaren Mercedes MP4 / 10 was one of the first cars to feature a " midwing ", using a loophole in the regulations to mount a wing on top of the engine cover.

Mexican Sprinters feature heavier transmissions and can be fitted with a V-12 engine from the Mercedes S-Class for police and heavy duties.

To cope with the extra height above the ground, the wheels feature an unusual feature for a Land Rover ( but used for many years on the much older and similar Mercedes Unimog S404 ); a flange around the centre of the wheel has an embossed tread pattern forming a step for the crew when entering the cab, otherwise named a wheel-step.

This was the first Mercedes saloon to feature the brand new corporate styling theme which was to be continued until 1993 when the 190 was discontinued.

The W140 was to feature air-suspension as an option, but it was dropped shortly before launch because Mercedes was still perfecting the technology at the time.

Occasionally, the Mercedes still participate in some inter-district routes into Kowloon or Yuen Long, one of which becoming the last served by Mercedes.

Low floor Mercedes Citaro buses are the main type of bus used in Bucharest ( about 99 %), running on almost all the routes ( except for 162, 421, 427, 453 ).

The service was launched around 1974 with student drivers employed by the Associated Students of the University of California operating a fleet of eight Mercedes O309-D 14-passenger diesel buses on two routes from a curbside terminal on Shattuck Avenue at Center Street.