The 1955 Mercedes-Benz 300 SLR Uhlenhaut Coupe is a prototype race automotive constructed for the 1956 season.
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It obliterated the earlier file for the priciest automotive ever auctioned off by round $95 million.
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The earlier file holder was a 1962 Ferrari 250 GTO that offered for round $48 million in 2018, in response to public sale home RM Sotheby’s, which was concerned in each gross sales.
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The coupe additionally ranks within the prime 10 most costly gadgets ever offered at public sale, RM Sotheby’s stated.
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Mercedes-Benz offered the 300 SLR throughout an invite-only public sale on May 5 at its museum in Stuttgart, Germany.
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It offered to classic-car supplier Simon Kidston, who positioned the successful bid on behalf of an nameless purchaser.
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In half, the 300 SLR is so worthwhile as a result of Mercedes constructed simply two of them.
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To be honest, it is also attractive.
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The coupe was by no means raced, and as an alternative was utilized by Rudolf Uhlenhaut, the top of Mercedes’s testing division, as an organization automotive.
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The eight-cylinder race automotive was rated at roughly 300 horsepower.
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It had a prime pace of 180 mph, making it one of many quickest road-legal automobiles of its time, in response to RM Sotheby’s.
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The 300 SLR Coupe was developed as a hardtop model of Mercedes’s profitable open-top 300 SLR race automotive.
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Both SLR Coupes have been in Mercedes-Benz’s non-public assortment since new.
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The one offered — nicknamed “Red” for its crimson inside — solely reveals a bit of over 6,000 kilometers on the odometer.
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Its sibling, “Blue,” will stay on show on the Mercedes-Benz Museum.
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Why would Mercedes-Benz half with such a worthwhile automotive and such an iconic piece of its historical past?
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