Auto Service Center Ann Arbor East 4060 Washtenaw Ave. Ann Arbor, MI 48108 734.677.2400 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