Sweet And Sticky

How did the name ‘Mercedes’ come to be chosen for the car?

Mercedes Benz is a world famous brand of luxury cars. It was Emil Jellinek, the Austro-Hungarian consul and one of the earliest buyers of the model, who persuaded Gottlieb Daimler, the manufacturer, to rename the model after his daughter, Mercedes Jellinek, figuring that this non-German sounding name would be more popular with the French buying public.