AMG a « revisité » la quasi-totalité des modèles Mercedes-Benz. In 2018, Mercedes-Benz was the largest brand of premium vehicles in the world, having sold 2.31 million passenger cars. [8] The brand's origins lie in Daimler-Motoren-Gesellschaft 's 1901 Mercedes and Carl Benz 's 1886 Benz Patent-Motorwagen, which is widely regarded as the first internal combustion engine in a self-propelled automobile.