Nasser Bin Khaled (NBK) Automobiles, exclusive dealers of Mercedes-Benz in Qatar, will celebrate the global Mercedes-Benz 125 years of automotive excellence with the Mercedes-Benz Service Week starting on March 26. The service week will give all Mercedes-Benz owners in Qatar the opportunity to experience it all by driving into one of NBK Automobiles service workshops and take advantage of an array of unique value-added benefits such as complimentary visual checks and give-aways, expert insight by Mercedes-Benz trained technicians, special prices on genuine spare-parts and servicing, test-drive of the latest Mercedes-Benz models and trade-in offers for Mercedes-Benz pre-owned vehicles. In addition, Mercedes-Benz owners will avail of a 33% discount on parts and labour covering any necessary repairs found during vehicle check-up. Khaled Shaa’ban, general manager of NBK Automobiles, said: “With over a century worth of experience and expertise in the history of automobiles and automotive services, Mercedes-Benz is definitely a pioneer of the industry and a true thought-leader. Mercedes-Benz has to its name an illustrious track record brimming with cutting-edge inventions that have helped shape the present and future of transportation means. It is only natural to celebrate this outstanding achievement by offering our customers the chance to join in the spirit of success and genuinely feel that they are a key factor in the expansion and growth of the brand.” On January 29, 1886, Carl Benz filed an application in Berlin for a patent on his three-wheeled “horseless carriage”. Critics claimed the contraption had no future. One hundred twenty-five years and over 80,000 patent applications later, the critics couldn’t have been more wrong.