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Built in 1955 as a pair of closed-roof prototypes derived from the championship-winning 300 SLR racer, it became, decades later, the most expensive car ever sold. Its story blends engineering brilliance, personal legend, tragedy, and an almost unimaginable price tag.
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Its body gleams under the museum lights, curving in ways that seem to cheat the wind itself. This is not just any old racing car. This is the 1954 Mercedes-Benz W 196 R Stromlinienwagen — and it just became the most expensive Grand Prix car ever sold.
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There are fast cars, there are rare cars, and then there is the Mercedes-Benz 300 SLR Uhlenhaut Coupé, a machine that somehow occupies a category of its own.
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It swept the World Sportscar Championship, produced one of the most celebrated drives in racing history. It remains, more than half a century later, one of the most revered and valuable cars ever built.
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ts body gleams under the museum lights, curving in ways that seem to cheat the wind itself. This is not just any old racing car. This is the 1954 Mercedes-Benz W 196 R Stromlinienwagen — and it just became the most expensive Grand Prix car ever sold.
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