A Mercedes of 1955a model that was only produced twice, was sold in early May at auction for 135 million eurosamount which is the highest that has never been paid for any vehicle at auction, announced yesterday Thursday o Sotheby’s house.
it is about a Mercedes Coupé 300 SLR Uhlenhaut 1955which was sold at auction in a very closed circle at the Mercedes-Benz Museum in Stuttgart, Germany, as part of a collaboration between its subsidiary Sotheby’s and the German car industry.
Its price, these 135 million euros, is almost three times the previous record amountgiven in 2018 for a 1962 Ferrari 250 GTOwhich was sold by RM Sotheby’s for 45 million euros.
The car now occupies a position «in the top ten most expensive items ever sold at auctionThe company clarified in a press release published yesterday Thursday in London and at the same time in New York by the parent company, which this week has various works of art in its spring auctions.
According to data collected by the French Agency, the highest price ever paid for a work of art at auction is the painting Salvator Mundi of Leonardo da Vincisold in November 2017 for 450.3 million euros from Christie’s in New York.
The 1955 Mercedes, characterized by Sotheby’s RM “the most beautiful car in the world», Is ranked in 6th or 7th place.
The vehicle, which belonged, like the second of its kind, to Mercedes-Benz, sold to a private collector who wished to remain anonymous. The sale will create the international “Mercedes-Benz Fund” that will train and train new researchers in the fields of environment and reducing carbon dioxide emissions, always according to RM Sotheby’s.
The buyer agreed to expose the car to special demonstrations for the public. The second model of this type remains in the hands of Mercedes-Benz, which exhibits it at its museum in Stuttgart.
According to the auction company and the special press, the 300 SLR, recognizable by its special shape and its doors that open upwards, was designed by the engineer Rudolf Ulenhaut based on the W196 R Grand Prix race car, which won two Formula 1 world championships (1954, 1955) with Italian-Argentine driver Juan Manuel Fango at the helm.
But Mercedes-Benz was indelibly marked by the horrific accident of June 1955 at the 24 Hours of Le Mans, when French driver Pierre Leveque and 83 spectators were killed, and withdrew from the rally for years.
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