Ein a classic Mercedes is now the most expensive car in the world. The silver sports activities car from 1955 with the kind designation 300 SLR, designed by the legendary Mercedes engineer Rudolf Uhlenhaut (1906 – 1989) and recognized to these in the know as the “Uhlenhaut Coupé”, was offered in digital camera by the public sale home Sotheby’s for a file sum of 135 million euros auctioned. Mercedes knowledgeable the FAZ in advance on Thursday. The announcement was made at an occasion on the Côte d’Azur, for which the Stuttgart car producer rented the former villa of dressmaker Karl Lagerfeld, amongst different issues.
Beforehand, a Ferrari 250 GTO held the file, which was auctioned for $48 million in 2018. The Frankfurter Allgemeine Sunday newspaper first reported three weeks in the past on the plan to public sale off considered one of the two Uhlenhaut coupes.
They’re the solely two examples of the car that was designed for the 1956 racing season however was by no means used in motorsport. The second copy will proceed to be exhibited in the museum.
Purchaser unknown
Mercedes closed its museum in Stuttgart for a day for the public sale at the starting of Could. Based on FAZ info, the handpicked group of accredited bidders included industrialists from different European nations, one bidder was on web site, the others have been linked digitally. Mercedes board member Renata Jungo Brüngger didn’t wish to reveal who the purchaser is in an interview with the FAZ.
The extremely symbolic sale was apparently fairly controversial internally. Jungo Brüngger admitted that there have been completely different opinions about the sale inside the group. Based on the firm, the purchaser has agreed to make the car accessible to the public on particular events. Jungo Brüngger emphasised that each one events had a coronary heart for Mercedes. “That is why saying goodbye is more easy.”
The cash is to circulate right into a fund with which Mercedes intends to award 1,000 scholarships a yr to college students and schoolchildren. The group needs to help younger individuals who wish to implement initiatives in the discipline of sustainability or environmental safety and do not have the cash for it, stated Jungo Brüngger.
