Chassis 00009/52 was one of ten W194 300 SLs built for the 1952 racing season. Of these, eight saw competitive action. An eleventh W194 was subsequently assembled to serve as a development mule…
Read MoreToday, RM Sotheby’s broke the record for the most valuable Formula 1 car ever sold: the Mercedes-Benz W196R Stromlinienwagen chassis 00009/54. One of four known complete…
Read MoreIn 1993, the first year that the DTM had opened itself up to the FIA’s Class 1 Touring Car regulations, Nicola Larini emerged as champion driving for the debutant Alfa Romeo team. However, the…
Read MoreChassis 00008/52 was one of ten W194 300 SLs built up in anticipation of the 1952 season, eight of which saw competitive action. The other two cars served as development mules while an eleventh…
Read MoreHaving created arguably the most effective sports racing car ever seen for the 1955 season (the W196S 300 SLR), Mecedes-Benz made the decision to abandon top flight competition as a…
Read MoreChassis 00011/52 was a uniquely configured W194 300SL that served as a development mule for the subsequent W198 300 SL ‘Gullwing’ production car. Assembled over the winter of 1952-1953, the…
Read MoreChassis 00007/52 was one of three brand new W194 300 SL Coupes raced by Mercedes-Benz at the 1952 Le Mans 24 Hours which took place over the weekend of June 14th and 15th. Ahead of the trip to…
Read MoreTo stand any chance of beating the all-conquering McLaren F1 GTR which had been developed without regard to expense as the finest road car ever made, Mercedes-Benz and Porsche were…
Read MoreEven though Porsche created their own reverse engineered machine for the late 90s GT1 scene, it took the might of Mercedes-Benz to topple McLaren over the course of an entire season. From…
Read MoreChassis 198.040.4500019 was an early 300 SL Gullwing retained by Mercedes-Benz for promotional use. Configured in Silver Grey with Grey and Blue plaid cloth seats and matching Blue carpet, the car…
Read MoreChassis 198.040.5500640 was the first of four steel-bodied 300 SL Gullwings specially prepared by the Mercedes-Benz competition department for assessment during 1955. Steel as opposed to…
Read MoreLike the original W194 prototype (00001/52), chassis 00002/52 was used as a development mule for Mercedes’ 1952 campaign and did not go racing. These two cars were followed by eight subsequent…
Read MoreChassis 0001/52 was the prototype W194 300 SL initially used by Mercedes-Benz for testing duty ahead of the company’s 1952 motor sport campaign. Having starred in a series of promotional…
Read MoreMercedes unveiled the legendary 190 E 2.5-16 Evolution 2 at Geneva in March 1990. It would be the last and most extreme iteration of the W201 to go racing and served from 1990 to 1994 until the new…
Read MoreChassis 00006/52 was one of the original ten W194 300 SLs built for 1952. An eleventh then followed which served as a development mule for the W198 300 SL Gullwing production model. 00006/52…
Read MoreMercedes initially built ten examples of the W194 300 SL for the 1952 season, eight of which were raced. An eleventh car was subsequently assembled to serve as a protoype for the W198 Gullwing.
Read MoreChassis 00010/52 was the only W194 300 SL originally built as a Spyder. The other four Spyders were all converted from cars initially built as Gullwings. Mercedes originally created ten W198s…
Read MoreOf the seven 300 SLRs originally built with Spider bodywork, chassis 0002/55 was the only example never to be raced. Instead, it served principally as Mercedes’ development mule.
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