Mercedes-Benz exhibits

Bluetec Diesel banner, as seen at the 2007 Chicago Auto Show.

Modern flair in the fashion capital of the world: Mercedes-Benz in Paris, photographed around 1980.

Mercedes-Benz showroom in Paris, photographed around 1980.

"Wheeling Motors" Mercedes-Benz salesroom, probably taken in the U.S.A. in the 1960s.

Mercedes-Benz and Unimog Passenger cars and commercial vehicles exhibition in Turkey (1950s).

Europa Motors in Guatemala City, mid-1950s: the company sold Mercedes-Benz in Guatemala.

Mercedes-Benz in Graz, Austria, in the 1950s.

Mercedes-Benz sales outlet in Budapest, Hungary. Photographed around 1928.

Mercedes Española S.A., around 1923: exclusive distributors of the exquisite products of DMG in Spain and Morocco.

Mercedes Automotive China Agency, photographed around 1920/1925: sales outlet for Mercedes-Benz vehicles in Shanghai.

Mercedes-Benz sales outlet in Los Angeles, California, probably photographed in the 1920s.

Switzerland was among the early customer countries of Daimler-Motoren-Gesellschaft. Photographed around 1910.

Daimler-Motoren-Gesellschaft sales outlet around 1910, probably in Strasbourg in the Alsace.

The Royal Garage in Milan, Italy, photographed around 1910. But products competing with Mercedes also could be had, as the sign in the gateway reveals.

Mercedes-Garage palatial showroom in The Hague, Netherlands, around 1910.

Benz & Cie. in Hamburg: a sales and service outlet was set up in the Hanseatic city as early as 1899.