Auto Service Center Farmington Hills 29538 Orchard Lake Rd. Farmington Hills, MI 48334 248.626.4110 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