Mercedes Simplex

The Mercedes Simplex was an automobile model produced, between the years 1902 and 1909, by the Daimler Motoren Gesellschaft (DMG, Daimler Motor Society, a predecessor of Daimler-Benz and Daimler-Chrysler). It contined the use of Mercedes (car) as the new brand of DMG, rather than Daimler. The Mercedes Simplex was designed by Wilhelm Maybach in Stuttgart, Germany. It featured high engine performance (40 to 60 hp), with overall stability granted at its large and wide body, with low center of gravity. Its predecessor car, the Mercedes 35hp of 1901, had broke with the primitive automotive standards. Now, DMG and Maybach intended to improve that domestically: "comfort by means of simplicity", producing something Simplex.