Benz
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Benz may refer to:
[edit] Automobile history
- Karl Benz, German automobile engineer and inventor (also Carl due to temporarily fashionable French spelling)
- Bertha Benz (née Ringer), Karl Benz's wife, the first person to drive an automobile a long distance (over 106 km or 66 miles)
- Benz & Cie. the most important of several companies founded by Karl Benz, sometimes along with partners and his sons, the last of which that merged in 1926 to become Daimler-Benz
- Daimler-Benz, automobile manufacturer founded by merger in 1926 (becoming DaimlerChrysler in 2000 by another merger)
- Mercedes-Benz, the brand of automobiles and trucks produced by Daimler-Benz after 1926 and retained as a brand after the merger creating DaimlerChrysler
[edit] Other references
- Kafi Benz, an American writer, historian, designer, and artist, the founder of Friends of Seagate Inc. and Kafi Benz Productions
- Spragga Benz, a reggae artist
- Benz (group) were a London-based pop-RnB group of the mid-1990s, best known for Top 40 singles "Urban City Girl" and "Miss Parker"
- The Benz unit is a unit of velocity equivalent to a metre per second.
- Benz (rapper) a hip hop artist from the Netherlands for Raw Matz Music.
