Recently, a Mercedes Benz 300 SLR uhlenhaut Coupe was sold for 135 million euros, breaking the previous transaction record of Ferrari 250 GTO and becoming the most expensive car in the world
The Mercedes Benz 300 SLR uhlenhaut Coupe was auctioned at the Mercedes Benz Museum in Stuttgart by Sotheby's auction house. The buyer was anonymous. The funds from the auction will be used for the Mercedes Benz Fund Global scholarship program. As a reference, the transaction record of previously privately traded cars was Ferrari 250 GTO auctioned in 2018, with a transaction price of about US $70 million (about RMB 468 million); The recorded public transaction record is US $48.5 million (about RMB 326 million), and the model is also Ferrari 250 GTO.
In 1955, Mercedes Benz built 300 SLR coupe cars for the next year's Le Mans race. However, due to the disastrous accident in Le Mans race that year, Mercedes Benz decided to quit, and only two 300 SLR coupe cars were built in the end. The two 300 SLR coupe cars belong to the official ownership of Mercedes Benz. Later, Rudolf uhlenhaut, the designer and chief engineer of SLR, transformed one of them and drove it as a private car, that is, the 300 SLR uhlenhaut coupe auctioned this time. (text / MA Aijun of auto home)