Introduction

Mercede Benz is a manufacturing company. Predecessor of Mercedes Benz is Banz & Cie and Daimler-Motoren-Gesellschaft. Mercedes- Benz was founded in the year June 28, 1926, excatly 88 years ago from now. Founder of Mercedes Benz is Karl Benz Paul Daimler. Its headquarters are located at Stuttgart, Germany. Mercedes Benz is worldwide served. Dieter Zetsche is the chairman of the company. There is a number of products that are launched by the company and on a large scale like Automobiles, Trucks, Buses, Internal Combustion Engines and the most important Luxury vehicles. Not only Financial services but it also provide automobile repair. The owner of the company, Mercedes Benz is Daimler AG and you can go through the products of the brand on its website www.mercedes-benz.com.

Mercedes Benz slogan is “Das Beste Oder nichts” which means “The best or nothing” in the English language. Mercedes Benz is a part of “Germany Big 3” luxury automakers along with Audi and the BMW series. These are the best-selling luxury automakers in the world and people to drive their automobile as it is very comfortable and vary greatly according to the requirement of the user.

History

Talking about the history of the Mercedes Benz, the gredit goes to Karl Benz who created the first petrol-powered car, the Benz Patent Motorwagen which was financed by Bertha Benz. Theis car was patented in the year 1886. The Mercedes automobile was marketed in the year 1901 by Daimler-Motoren-Gesellscahft. Not only is this the first Mercedes brand name vehicle was put down in the market in the year 1926. During the Germany Nazi’s period in 1930’s a total of 770 models were introduced in the market and it became so popular that every rich and middle class family wants it. These luxurious cars is famous worldwide.

Subsidiaries

Mercedes-AMG: in the year 1999 Mercedes-AMG became the majority owned division of Mercedes Benz. It was integrated into Dailmler Chrysler in the same year and became the oart of Mercedes Benz in on Janaury 1, 1999.

Mercede-Benz Mclaren: Mclaren cars produced sports car along with Mercedes banz during the period 2003 and 2009. The very recent edition which is famous worldwide is the xtension of both, Mercedes-Benz SLR Mclaren. The formula one racing cars use the engines of Mercedes extension. Mclaren MP4-12C was launched in the year 2011. Also the recent new 650S has been created with 641 bhp (break horsepower) and the top speed of 207 miles per hour.

Maybach: the ultra-luxury brand Maybach was the division of Mercedes till the year 2003 and after that its production stopped due to the poor sales volume.

Models

There is a number of different models introduced by Mercedes are Mercedes Benz A Class which is a compact car, ranges from 23.82 lakh to 24.66 lakh. Next one Mercedes Benz B Class has on road price from 23.11 lakh to 26.76 lakh. The classic Mercedes Benz CLS Class which is a 4 door coupe, has on road price between 1.03 to 1.73 crore and the very recent and luxurious Mercedes Benz E Class which is an executive car, ranges 1.78 crore. The Mercedes Benz GL Class ranges 73.95 lakh, Mercedes Benz M Class which is a luxury SUV, ranges from 51.95 lakh to 62.97 lakh and the Mercedes Benz new C Class which is D segment, ranges from 28.56 lakh to 93.24 lakh. These were the some luxurious and high preice models and are really comfortable to drive on roads. But it is not over yet, we have more models to discuss the Mercedes Benz SLK Class ranges from 87.61 lakh to 1.26 crore and the last one Mercedes Benz S Class which is a luxury sedan, ranges 1.57 crore in market.

Nomenclature

In the year 1994, it was decided that the Mercedes will use the alphanumeric system for categorizing the vehicles of the brand and hence they use the alphabetic letters at the start if the name of the sedans and the divisions. These alphabetical style depicts the body style and engine types as follows: “C” denote the coupe or cabriolet body style, “D” denotes the vehicle which is equipped with a diesel engine. The letter “E” is used for “Einspritzung” which indicates the vehicle’s engine is equipped with petrol fuel injection. Other ways to remind is that if neither the “E” nor “D” is present than the vehicle has a petrol engine with a carburetor. The letter “G” stands for Gelandewagen off-road vehicle, “K ” indicates the supercharger equipped engine, this “k” letter was introduced in the 1930s. “L” is for two “Leicht”indicates lightweight sporting models and “Lang” for long wheelbase for the sedan models, “R” for racing, or used for the racing cars. The model with “S” indicates special class for flagship models and the last one “T”, which indicates “touring” and estate body style.

Awards and Achievements

In the year 2013 Mercedes Benz E Class wins the 2013 ET ZigWheels Luxury Car of the year award. Luxurious is in the blood of the owner of Mercedes and when it was a first drive of Mercedes Benz SLK 55 AMG first drive, it got 8.5 rating out of 10. And for the Mercedes Benz S Class it got 9.5 rating out of 10. In the year 2012, Mercedes Benz wins world Green Car award for its S250 CDI blue efficiency.

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Actor

English born Christian Bale is better remembered by all as “The Batman” and as the “American Psycho” People who worked with him, know him as the guy who swears a lot on the sets. The famous  Welsh actor  is also one among the richest celebs alive and is worth a whopping $80 million.He started as a child artiste and is now an actor whose movies are not just blockbusters but also those of critical acclaim and excellent reviews.

Privy life

Born in Wales in 1974, Bale was raised in Portugal, UK  and America,thanks to his mother who was a circus artiste. His career as an actor began at an early age and there has been no stopping since. He studied at the Bournemouth school in Dorset,England and dropped out of school when he was 16. He even has his interests in ballet and music. Now married to Sandra Blazic, he keeps his private life away from the limelight as much as possible.

Career

Bale began his career as a child actor  in early television commercials for fabric softener and computer games, he made his stage début opposite Rowan Atkinson in the West End play, ‘The Nerd’. His opportunity to strike it big came in 1987,when he acted in Steven Spielberg’s, coming-of-age American war film, ‘Empire Of The Sun’. This was followed by ‘Henry V’ in 1989,after he returned to the big screen after a year and a half hiatus.

This was followed by ‘The Treasure Island’ and ‘Newsies’. During the early 2000′s Bale came up  with a stellar performance as the ‘American Psycho’. It saw Bale play Patrick Bateman in the film adaptation of Bret Easton Ellis’ controversial novel. The demanding role led Bale to undergo a stringent exercise regime and, although some critics were horrified at the film’s content, it was a cult hit. He has played a melange of characters as as actor since 2001. He is known to be a perfectionist.

2002 was a damp squib for Bale as most of his movies weren’t up to the mark and  he almost took a year long sabbatical just to come back with a  bang as “The Machinist” followed by portraying one of the most epic characters  known in the comic industry. He starred as Bruce Wayne in 2005, followed by a sequel ‘The Dark Knight’ in 2008.

Known for his physical commitment to roles, the star once again trained in the Keysi Fighting Method, which he had initially learnt for the first Batman film.Bale,then appeared again in the third Batman movie, ‘The Dark Knight Rises’, which  released in July 2012.  He also essayed the role of John Connor in the fourth instalment of the’Terminator’ movie series.Bale has continued to star in successful movies including, Harsh Times (2005), Rescue Dawn (2006), The Prestige (2006) co-starring Hugh Jackman, 3:10 to Yuma (2007) with Russell Crowe.

How did he make his money?

Bale’s source of wealth was mainly because he was an actor. He received a staggering $10 million for his role as Bruce Wayne in Christopher Nolan’s ‘The Dark Knight’. and also a reported $8 million for his playing John Connor in ‘The Terminator Salvation’in 2009. ‘The Dark Knight Rises; in 2013 reportedly saw Bale raking in the moolah of about $15 million. 2013 saw Christian Bale hit the top spot with a take away of $46 million.

Christian Bale drove up for BAFTA in his newly acquired Benz C43, much to the relief of his fans who were used to seeing him in his old 1995 BMW 325i.  A vintage, yet powerful looking sleek model that popped out the eyeballs.His average annual earnings go up to $15 million. In the 44 movies that Bale has acted, he makes a  plush $50 million. Let us take a look at his pay check that rocketed him to the million dollar club.

2012 – The Dark Knight Rises- $15 million

2008-The Dark Knight- $10 million + $20,000,000 bonus

2005- Batman Begins-$9,000,000

2009- The Terminator Salvation-$8,000,000 + profit share

2004- American Psycho- $1,000,000

Forbes featured Bale as one among the Top Ten Richest celebs in 2012 and  estimated his total box office gross to be roughly $3,402,000,000. These staggering numbers are enough to put Bale in the pole position.

He also bought a three-bedroom, three-bath home at 150 Mabery Road in Pacific Palisades for $1.765 million from Michael J. Duggan on Sept. 11, 2001.The 1,910-square-foot home was built in 1923.

Charity

Bale  is also involved actively in Charities and causes. Some of  them include the Fulfilment Fund, Greenpeace,Screen Actors Guild Foundation, Sea Shepherd Conservation Society and the WWF. He even made headlines for flying a cancer stricken patient to Disneyland in 2012.

Awards

Bale won the award for the ‘Best Young Actor in supported role’ for ‘Empire Of The Sun’ He also won the ‘Best Actor’ for his roles in American Psycho, Batman Begins and the ‘Best Ensemble’ award  for g‘The Dark Knight’ in 2009. His movie ‘The Fighter saw him win many awards and Nominations which is a big list to be named or read out here!

For all we know, Christian Bale is an actor who is also one of the most favourite choices for any movie that contains a crispy and challenging role. If he is rich, then he truly deserves to be, the list of movies that raked in the big bucks says it all.

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Actor Director Producer

 Introduction

Carlos Irwin Estevez or as we know him by the stage name of Charlie Sheen is an American actor and director. Touched new heights of fame and popularity by his show “Two and a Half men” which he quit after the eight season. He has been in the news and headline for all the right and wrong reason. Wrong reasons include cases and alcohol and drug abuse as well.

Early Life and Career

Sheen’s first movie appearance was at the age of nine (1974) in his father’s “The execution of Private Slovik”. He was expelled from college just few weeks before graduation because of poor grades and attendance. It was then he decided to pursue acting as a career and adopted the stage name of Charlie Sheen. He finally got a break in 1984 with the film Red Dawn and since then kept on raising his bar by landing roles in films like “Wall Street” and “The Platoon”. In 2000 he made his Television debut with Spin City. Then he went on to grab roles in Two and a half men and now latest was Anger Management in 2012.

Earnings

In 2010 Sheen was the highest paid actor on television. He earned about 1.25 million per episode as salary and if you include back end syndication points he earned about 2 million per episode. Wow that’s some salary! Two and a half Men had 24 episodes that season and that made his earnings about a whopping 48 million that year. He was recently making headlines for gifting exotic cars like Mercedes and porches’ to porn stars. His salary for the show Anger Management is 2.5 million dollars per episode, that’s phenomenal. It was also reported that Sheen earned around 1 million from twitter endorsements and around 7 million from the North American Tour.

Personal Life

Sheen’s personal life has been troubled. Married thrice and had numerous affairs. In all he has five children and a grandchild as well. He was first married to his high school girlfriend Paula Profit.

In 1990 he shot his fiancee Kelly Preston accidentally in the arm. As a result she broke off the engagement immediately. In 1990’s after that he had dated many adult film actresses.

In 1995 he married Donna Peele.

In 2002 he married the gorgeous Denise Richards and had two children together. But in 2005 she filed for divorce and reported Sheen for drug abuse, alcohol and threats of violence. Their divorce was finalized in November 2006.

Finally in 2008 Sheen married Brooke Mueller. But had to file for a divorce in 2010 only.

Net Worth

Mulholland Estate

Charlie Sheen owns an exotic mansion in a plush guar gated residential area of Mulholland Estates. His luxury mansion is actually situated in the Sherman Oaks, CA and is one of the plushest mansions of locality. Well with such high earnings he ought to own such an exotic masterpiece. The interiors are all custom made and designed to perfection.

Silver Valley Ranch

A mansion in the Beverly Hills is every new actor’s dream and it was once of Charlie Sheen as well. Finally he owns a Silver Valley Ranch in the Beverly Hills of Southern California. This plus mansion is his second asset and just few blocks away from his first home in Mulholland Estates. Charlie has nicknamed it sober Valley Ranch as he got sober after shifting into this mansion.

Not much of a car fan if we go into the list of cars he owns or owned. I guess he likes vintage cars more over the new fast and mean cars.

1966 NASCAR Ford Mustang (Auctioned Off)

Bad Boy Charlie Sheen got it modified in 2006 by getting a six speed transmission and a 650 Hp engine. This made Mustang a beast. Well Ford Mustang is a very common car among PC games like Midtown Madness, but Sheen played Midtown Madness in real life. His car has been stolen twice from the garage and involved in multiple crashes as well. The car got auctioned of pretty recently for around 100,000 dollars proving serious money issues with Charlie Sheen. The car was only driven 155 miles after restoration.

Mercedes Benz S600

A proud owner of the Mercedes which boasts a tremendous power output. His super plush car worth 160,000 dollars was stolen recently and recovered from a cliff below Sherman oaks.

Controversy King

He has been involved in way too many controversies. Had it been someone else, the actor’s career would have ended with such acts of defaming. But he is simply Charlie Sheen. He got famous and more loved. The major controversy of his career was with the Warner Bros when he was fired from the sets of Two and a half Men by CBS and Warner Bros. In 2011 after it was Sheen’s third attempt at the rehabilitation centre CBS had to ban Sheen from entering the production house and later on he made derogatory comments about the creator of Two and a half men Chuck Lorre. Sheen also claimed that he was underpaid compared to what the series was making. Second controversy which surrounded Sheen was of assaulting his wife Brooke Mueller in 2009 under the influence of drugs and alcohol. He was arrested and later released at a bond of about 8500 dollars. Further he has been involved in multiple incidents of drug overdose and then hospitalization. Charlie Sheen also tried to bash his replacement Ashton Kutcher on twitter by tweeting that “quit barfing on my old brilliant show”

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