Mercedes Benz club of India is the brainchild of Mr. Sharad Apte. It began as like-minded Mercedes Benz owners meeting and greeting each other every first Sunday with their 1st name which included Jairaj Salgaonkar, of Kalnirnays, (MB parts Dealer) Shah brothers Jayesh and Dilip, die hard enthusiast Freddy Turel and Sachit Dhabolkar of vintage fame.
In the 2nd week of March 1997 meeting, an idea to name themselves as the Three Pointers club was initiated and decided. In their meeting of 6th April 1997 Freddy suggested that since we are growing and all the members till date are passionate Mercedes fans we should name our club as “Mercedes Benz club of India – The Three Pointers”.
In the 3rd week of March these five persons brought in another five enthusiast to the club who were none other than Kiran Shantaram of bollywood fame, Bhaskar Talwalkar of body fitness name, Mahesh Wagle a reputed printer and Suresh Joshi manufacturer of famous Sapat Lotion & Rajan Dandekar.
Mercedes Benz Club of India on 25th Sept 2017 decided to form Mercedes benz club of india Mumbai chapter which is operational from 1st oct 2017. Further an election was conducted on 17th June 2018 by Mercedes Benz club of India Mumbai chapter to elect the new managing committee and the following members were elected as the New committee of Mercedes Benz club of India Mumbai chapter:
Mr RajendraKumar Vaidya, Chairman | Mr Nikhil Desai, Vice Chairman | Mr Kiran Patkar, Secretary | Mr Sunil Fadia, Jt. Secretary | Mr Saurabh Dalvi, Treasurer