La Mercedes W196 de 1954 dans un musée en Argentine. dpa – Florencia Martin
La Mercedes des deux pilotes légendaires du monde de la Formule 1, Juan Manuel Fangio et Stirling Moss, a été vendue aux enchères des dizaines de millions d’euros.
200% Deposit Bonus up to €3,000 180% First Deposit Bonus up to $20,000The Mercedes W196 Streamliner driven by Formula 1 legends Juan Manuel Fangio and Stirling Moss has sold at auction in Stuttgart for a record $53 million (€51.155 million).
Record sale
Fangio, a five-time world champion, drove it to victory in the 1955 Argentine Grand Prix, while Moss was behind the wheel in the Italian Grand Prix that season, where he set the fastest lap time.
The sale makes the W196 the most expensive Formula 1 car ever sold, doubling the previous record. The previous model, the Mercedes W196R, held the previous sales record at €23.35 million in 2013.
The auction took place at the Mercedes-Benz Museum in Stuttgart, southwest Germany. The buyer made the winning bid by telephone, on condition of anonymity. The sale price remains well below the all-time record for a car, although prices paid for older models have skyrocketed in recent years.
In 2022, a rare 1955 Mercedes-Benz SLR coupe from the automaker’s collection fetched €135 million at auction, more than double the previous record set in 2018 for a Ferrari 250 GTO.
One of the rarest and most beautiful competition cars ever made.
Sotheby’s auctioneers said the W196 Streamliner was one of only four known complete examples of this model and the first to be sold to a private buyer. Mercedes-Benz donated the car to the Indianapolis Motor Speedway (IMS) Museum in 1965.
It was one of 11 cars to be sold by IMS as part of its capacity reduction. Sotheby's called the W196 “one of the rarest and most beautiful competition cars ever made” and “one of Mercedes-Benz's greatest achievements”.