Croatian City Holds World Record For Mercedes Per Capita Ownership

Posted by www.eMercedesBenz.com on February 27, 2006 at 10:00 AM CST

We got a tip this morning from one of our readers pointing us to a  
story our good friends over at Autoblog just ran.

It turns out, Grubine, a small village in one of Croatia's poorest  
regions, likely holds the world record for per capita Mercedes  
ownership. Among the city's 800 inhabitants, a total of 117 Mercedes  
are owned. The most notable is a 1952 Mercedes 170 SD owned by Vjeko  
Lasic, one of only eight in the world.

Mercedes, or "Mechka" (bear) as they're locally called, have long  
been regarded in the region as a status symbol. After thousands of  
Croatians left the area seeking work in Germany in the mid-1960's,  
those that returned felt they needed a visible display of their  
wealth.   Enter Mercedes, and the rest is history.

For more info, you can check out the full article (via Autoblog) by  
clicking visiting www.eMercedesBenz.com.