, Swartz Creek. Valley Tire Flint 5010 Miller at Linden Flint, MI 48507 810.733.7080 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