Orchard Lake Village . Muffler Man 7700 Cooley Lake Rd. Waterford, MI 48327 248.360.2528 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