Witness the Engineering Marvel of the Mercedes-Benz 300 SLR

The 1955 Mercedes-Benz 300 SLR - abbreviated as "M-B 300 SLR" or "MB 300 SLR" - is a rear-wheel drive vintage race car by Mercedes-Benz. A 1955 Mercedes-Benz 300 SLR Uhlenhaut Coupé was auctioned by Sotheby's in Stuttgart, Germany, and sold for $142 million (£115 million; €135 million). Earlier this week, Hagerty had reported that one of the two Mercedes-Benz 300 SLR “Uhlenhaut Coupes” may have been sold at a private auction ... 1955 (300 SLR Uhlenhaut Coupé) 3,258 built. Coupé: 1,400. Roadster: 1,858 300 SLR Uhlenhaut Coupè: 2. Assembly, West Germany: Stuttgart-Untertürkheim. A luxury sports car produced from 1954 to 1957 as a coupé (also known by the nickname "Gullwing") and from 1957 to 1963 as a Roadster from the German Mercedes ... A Mercedes-Benz 300 SLR Uhlenhaut Coupé worth $142 Million . The question is, is it actually real or a kit car? Let me know in the comments ... Recently, someone just bought the world's most expensive vehicle. It went for almost $150 million. It destroyed the records in the process. The 300 SLR was a race car developed from an already existing and hugely successful race car, having performance baked in from the get-go. In a private auction for top collectors put on by Mercedes itself, one of just two 1955 300 SLR Uhlenhaut Coupés ever made sold for a jaw- ... Download ... The 300 SLR Coupé made its first public appearance at the beginning of August 1955, when it was driven by Rudolf Uhlenhaut during practice for the ...