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Wonder What It’s Like to Drive a 100-Year-Old Race Car? Mercedes Let Us Find Out. Gulp.

We got behind the wheel of the Mercedes-Benz that took part in the 1924 Targa Florio legendary Italian road race. It’s an elemental thing, the 2.0-liter Mercedes-Benz Targa Florio. You’re out in the ...
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Why the 1955 Mercedes-Benz 300SL became the blueprint

The 1955 Mercedes-Benz 300SL did more than go fast. It fused racing technology, radical design and everyday usability in a ...
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IMS Museum sells ‘historically significant’ Mercedes-Benz at auction for record price

The Indianapolis Motor Speedway Museum sold a Mercedes-Benz W 196 R Grand Prix race car on Feb. 1 at the Mercedes-Benz Museum. (Photo by Maximilian Balazs, courtesy of the Mercedes Benz Museum) A ...
Motor Trend

Take a Ride in the Passenger Seat of the Priceless Mercedes 300 SLR That Changed Racing

Let's begin with one of the most famous quotes from Ferris Bueller’s Day Off: “Life moves pretty fast; if you don’t stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.” In 1955, Mercedes-Benz, ...
Robb Report

Car of the Week: This 1954 Mercedes-Benz Racer Could Fetch More Than $52 Million at Auction

What justifies the W 196 R Stromlinienwagen’s considerable value is the fact that it’s the first-ever Streamliner-bodied W 196 R to be offered for private ownership. That, and its impressive racing ...
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1950s Mercedes F1 Car Becomes Most Expensive Grand Prix Machine Sold At Auction, Second-Most Expensive Car Ever

History is priceless only if no one can afford it or it's not for sale. The first publicly-available 1954 Mercedes-Benz W196 R Stromlinienwagen sold for $53.9 million at auction on Saturday after ...
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5 Greatest Street-Legal Race Cars From the 1990s GT1 Era

The GT1 era lasted from 1993 to 2011, but its most exciting period unfolded during the 1990s when outrageous machines were battling out on the world's most famous tracks, but also roamed public roads ...