Mercedes-Benz Formula One Race Car Sells for $53 Million

 



The 1954 Streamliner

The second-highest sum paid at auction for a car, following the world-record $142 million spent on a 1955 Mercedes-Benz 300 SLR Uhlenhaut Coupé in 2022. 

The Uhlenhaut car had crushed the previous record of $48.4 million paid for a 1962 Ferrari 250 GTO in 2018. 

Having been driven by two of racing’s most decorated drivers, Juan Manuel Fangio and Stirling Moss; Fangio drove it to victory at an exhibition-style Formula race in Buenos Aires in 1955.

The Streamliner is one of four like it; the Uhlenhaut is one of two.

Bloomberg 1 February 2025

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-02-01/-53-million-mercedes-benz-streamliner-formula-one-car-sells-in-germany






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