Whitmore Lake, South Lyon. Pinckney's Auto Repair 1211 E. M-36 Pinckney, MI 48169 734.878.9550 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