Stuttgart
Mercedes classic car auctioned for 46.5 million euros
Silver, fast and damn expensive: In Stuttgart, a classic car from Mercedes changed the owner for many million euros. Well -known racing drivers already drove him.
A rare “silver arrow” racing car from Mercedes-Benz from 1954 was auctioned in Stuttgart for 46.5 million euros. At the auction of the auction house RM Sotheby’s in the Mercedes-Benz Museum, the contract went to a bidder who took part in the auction by telephone, as was seen in a live stream of the auction house. In addition to the sales price, there are still fees and taxes for the buyer. According to the auction house, the total purchase price amounts to 51.155 million euros.
According to the car maker, the Mercedes-Benz power tromline car of the W 196 R series is one of four known, completely preserved specimens of the racing car.
According to Mercedes-Benz, the now auctioned vehicle was driven by two well-known racing drivers. In January 1955 Juan Manuel Fangio won the Grand Prix of Argentina in Buenos Aires with the car. The British racing driver Stirling Moss completed the fastest round of the race with the 290 hp racing car at the Grand Prix of Italy in Monza.
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In 1965, Mercedes gave the vehicle to the Indianapolis Motor Speedway Museum, which, according to the auction, wants to finance the collection and the restoration work of the museum.
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The VW Polo III ran off the assembly line for the first time in 1994, and the well -known Harlekin was built in 1995. The multi-colored paint was inspired by a marketing trick that was to demonstrate the modular principle of the various equipment modules. In total there were 3806 copies of the colorful car.
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The “silver arrow” is far from the most expensive car in the world. In 2022, Mercedes-Benz had auctioned only two copies of the 300 SLR Uhlen skin coupé for 135 million euros. The car from 1955, named after the engineer Rudolf Uhlenhaut, was the most expensive car, according to Mercedes.
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Source: Stern
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