Gottlieb Daimler’s company had grown into a staid, conservative enterprise producing a succession of dreary automobiles 
when Ferdinand Anton Porsche strode in the door in the 1920’s. Daimler, of course, was one of the earliest auto pioneers, assembling a motor carriage in 1886 almost on top of the work being done by his fellow German, Karl Benz. In 1907, Paul, Gottlieb Daimler’s son, took over the chief engineering post at the company, and, while he made certain it maintained its reputation and a builder of sound engines, there wasn’t much excitement or verve attached to the Daimler brand.
Ferdinand Porsche, however, would alter all that. Read more . . .
one car, has been unfairly associated with a political movement, and a deplorable movement at that: the German National Socialist (Nazi) Party. The 
Their nation was a shambles, devastated by the fall down of the Nazi regime with which their cars had been so closely associated, fairly or unfairly, and, as other countries clawed their way out of the abyss, back toward normalcy, they were being left behind. Other, lesser brands were occupying winner’s circles that Mercedes-Benz engineers figured they owned.