Maple Road Auto Repair 1653 E. West Maple Rd. Walled Lake, MI 48390 248.669.5999 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