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 purchase price amounts to 51.155 million euros. The Mercedes-Benz-Stromlinlagen car of the W 196 R series is, according to the car manufacturer, a fully preserved specimen of the racing car. According to Mercedes-Benz drove from 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. Long time in the museum in Indianapolis Daheim1965, Mercedes gave the vehicle to the Indianapolis Motor Speedway Museum, which with the revenue of the auction According to information, the collection and restoration work of the museum would like to finance. More on the topic of the world is the “silver arrow” by no means. 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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