Westland, Salem. Auto Lab Plymouth 530 West Ann Arbor Rd. Plymouth, MI 48170 734.454.4300 Mercedes-Benz traces its origins to Karl Benz's creation of the first  petrol -powered car, the  Benz Patent Motorwagen , patented in January 1886 and  Gottlieb Daimler and engineer  Wilhelm Maybach 's conversion of a stagecoach by the addition