Today Otto drove us to Stuttgart to the Mercedes-Benz Museum. Entrance costs 10 Euro or 5 Euro for Seniors (over 60), including an audio guide.

The tour starts on the top floor, the 7th floor, up 34 metres, back to the year 1886. Gottlieb Daimler, Karl Benz and Wilhelm Maybach invented the car.

Both car makers registered their new trademarks in the summer of 1909 seems to mirror the events of 1886, since this was when Gottlieb Daimler and Carl Benz invented the car powered by the fast-running internal combustion engine – without even having any knowledge of one another.

On 18 February 1925, both brands registered their new shared logo – Daimler's Mercedes star in Benz's laurel wreath. It was from these beginnings that the Mercedes-Benz trademark still used to this day developed. They invented automated bikes, cars, planes, buses, trucks, vans and different types of engines.

The passenger cars made in Cannstatt soon had a new brand name, in April 1900, DMG reached an agreement with Emil Jellinek for the supply of innovative cars and engines. Jellinek was a sales man and he increased the profile of the brand by requesting that Daimler-Benz create the fastest racing car. At the time, Jellinek was the largest dealer for DMG vehicles. The pseudonym "Mercédès", under which Jellinek entered car races, was to become the brand name for these Daimler products. This name was inspired by the Austrian businessman's daughter, Mercédès Jellinek, who was born in Vienna in 1889.

We were fortunate to see the hybrid racing car from Formula One world champion Nico Rosberg, the Silver Arrow, It was installed in the museum yesterday.

Back to Ellwangen for coffee and cake and then dinner with Mucki and Wolfgang.