MOTORING NEWS - When talking about symbols of luxury, the simple three-pointed star of Mercedes-Benz carries a lot of cachet.
The auto bloggers at The News Wheel explain that the Mercedes-Benz logo didn't start off as a logo at all, but rather a star drawn on a postcard sent by Gottlieb Daimler to his wife in the 1870s to represent the location of his house and how light will "shine over his factory and bring prosperity."
Daimler's sons Paul and Adolf began to use a three-pointed star logo for their automotive manufacturing brand DMG in the early 1900s.
When DMG merged with Benz & Cie in 1926, they included the famous star with a laurel wreath. The wreath has since been abandoned, but the three points in the star are meant to represent complete domination of land, sea, and air.
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