Photography courtesy of Rodeo Drive Concours. Additional gallery photos courtesy of Howard Koby. Fathers, families and car lovers filled the...
Background The recently held “Dare to Dream” auction in Toronto, Canada, represented a wide variety of automotive milestones, specifically for...
by Royce Rumsey Keep pushing! After leading 196 of the 200 laps of the 1912 Indianapolis 500, Ralph DePalma’s Mercedes suffered a cracked piston. Rather than pull the crippled car into the pits and retire, Ralph and his mechanic Louis Fontaine, hand-pushed the large Mercedes the remaining 4 laps (10miles!)...
The Mercedes-Benz 300SL Roadster, introduced in 1957, remains an icon of automotive excellence. Combining innovative engineering with elegance, its mark...
Museum Spotlight The 500 K Special Roadster is a superstar at the Mercedes-Benz Museum. What makes it so fascinating? It...
It never gets old looking back on one of the most famous pioneering efforts in the evolution of the automobile, the “Blitzen-Benz.” It’s placeholder in transportation lore needs no exaggeration: Four-cylinder engine with a displacement of 21.5 liters and 147 kW (200 hp) Magic mark of 200 km/h is broken...
Announcement from Mercedes-AMG PETRONAS F1 Team The Mercedes-AMG PETRONAS F1 Team and Lewis Hamilton will part ways at the end...
The iconic 300 SL Roadster needs no introduction, as it is one of the most coveted and revered sports cars...
Here’s a video of a 1990 Mercedes Sauber C11 and its 750hp biturbo V8 roaring around the track during Le Mans Classic 2023....
The Mercedes CLK GTR was once the world’s most expensive production car and it rarely gets the recognition that it...
Mick Schumacher drove his father Michael’s Mercedes-AMG W02 F1 car at the 2023 Goodwood Festival of Speed presented by Mastercard....
At the 2023 Goodwood Festival of Speed, Esteban Gutierrez drives the car that brought Lewis Hamilton within striking distance of his eighth World Championship in 2021....
Mercedes-Benz Press: A new sports car “study” has been completed. The Vision One-Eleven combines a highly dynamic design language with...
Watch the exciting video of the Kriton Lendoudis 1990 Mercedes Sauber C11 as it races in the Group C Racing...
Edited and Reviewed by Rex McAfee Mercedes Benz to Victory Circle The No. 79 WeatherTech Racing/Proton Competition Mercedes-AMG GT3 team secured the first IMSA GTD Pro class victory for a Mercedes-AMG Motorsport Customer Racing team in the 61st Rolex 24 at Daytona International Speedway. The team’s drivers were Cooper MacNeil,...
Seeing and hearing a 1991 Sauber-Mercedes C11 and its twin-turbo V8 producing around 720 horsepower in action at the Monza...
Nineteen thirty-five was an excellent Grand Prix season, the best against strong and varied opposition that Mercedes-Benz enjoyed in Year...
The V12 engine holds a special place in the heart of many automotive and motorsports fans. For some, it’s the sound of Formula 1 through the years, especially during the 1990s. For others, it’s engines like the 6.1 L BMW S70/2 from the McLaren F1 or the 3.9L Lamborghini V12...
All images courtesy of Mercedes-AMG. To find the 5 fastest Mercedes-Benz cars in 2022, we’re exploring the vast AMG family...
Lewis Hamilton in the Mercedes en route to victory at Monte Carlo in 2016. The Artist: ing. Lorenzo Benetton +39...
Before we begin, I’d like to take an opportunity to say that this season’s Formula 1 Grand Prix has been the best one in some time. Hamilton has been outright, the best of the best, for quite a few years now, but Verstappen’s victory this time around has created the...
By Dennis Gray, Bill Wagenblatt, & Rex McAfee On my way home from the Velocity Invitational held at Weathertech Raceway...
By the end of the decade, if market conditions allow, Mercedes-Benz is gearing up to go all electric. The world’s...
The sensational Mercedes-Benz 300 SL racing sports car debuted on a motorway on March 12, 1952. Commencing from 1954 until today, the highly successful competition car has greatly influenced the tradition of the Mercedes-Benz SL sports cars. The Mercedes-Benz 300 SL (W 194) was presented in a stretch of motorway near...
On May 29, 1921, Max Sailer drove the Mercedes 28/95 hp Sport under the piercing Sicilian sun for a little less than...
Mercedes have an unparalleled motorsport history. Throughout the years, the German manufacturer has been continuously innovating, testing, and retesting. From...
Radiator emblems, being either a brand emblem or a small sculpture, are positioned at the very front of the vehicle in a place for all to see their distinguishing features. The first automobiles did not need a radiator emblem since those vehicles did not possess a modern-style radiator with a closed...
In 1951, Mercedes-Benz’s successful return to the automotive industry in the post-war years was marked by two passenger cars in the...
Rene Dreyfus, great Pre WWII Grand Prix champion and world-class restaurateur, famously entitled his autobiography My Two Lives. The late...
Stewart Reed is an American transportation designer of some note. He’s designed several significant cars, including one for dune buggy pioneer Bruce Meyers plus a Bugatti for noted art deco and French Curves mega collector Peter Mullin. He still maintains a personal design consultancy for special projects, but...
