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    • A-Class

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      The A-Class

      Between temptation and reason.

    • B-Class

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      The B-Class Sports Tourer

      Designed to fit your life

    • C-Class

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      The C-Class Saloon

      Experience a car like no other

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      The CL-Class Coupé

      A masterpiece from Mercedes Benz

    • CLC-Class

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      The CLC-Class Sports Coupé

      Dynamism at its most alluring

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      CLK-Class Cabriolet

      Dynamism at its most alluring

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      The CLS-Class Coupé

      The technology of seduction

    • E-Class

      E-Class.

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      The E-Class Saloon

      See Mercedes-Benz in a new light.

    • G-Class

      The G-Class

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      The G-Class Cabriolet

      A modern classic

    • GL-Class

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      The GL-Class Off-Roader

      Off-road driving with on-road feel.

    • M-Class

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      M-Class Off-roader

      Refined power.

    • R-Class

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      The R-Class SUV Tourer

      The new form of space travel

    • S-Class

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      The S-Class Saloon

      Looking ahead, driving ahead

    • SL-Class

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      The SL-Class Roadster

      The legendary sports car

    • SLK-Class

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      The SLK-Class Roadster

      All you need for an enjoyable drive

    • SLR

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      The SLR Coupé

      The rebirth of a legend

Mercedes-Benz racing tradition

1951 1952 1954
1955 – World race circuits 1955 – Victory in record time
1955 – Withdrawal
1951: First races with the pre-War W 154
After the end of the Second World War, around 90 percent of the Stuttgart-Untertürkheim plant lay in ruins. The first priority was to establish economic momentum by rebuilding production facilities. No one seriously considered reinstating motorsport activities except for one man. Race organiser Alfred Neubauer began to search for intact Mercedes-Benz racing cars in the three-litre category – and found them. And so it was in 1951 that three W 154 cars competed in works races in Buenos Aires (Argentina). They were driven by former champion Hermann Lang, Karl Kling and the Argentinian Juan Manuel Fangio.

The three Mercedes‑Benz works drivers (Lang, Fangio and Kling) finished the "Premio Presidente de la Nación Juan D. Perón" race in second, third and sixth positions respectively.
But this respectable result did not gloss over the fact that the twelve-year-old W 154 was no longer the state of the art. All other formula race plans were stopped as a result. From 1954, Daimler-Benz moved its focus to developing a competitive 2.5‑litre racing vehicle using a naturally aspirated engine in accordance with a new formula defined by the international sport commission FIA. From 1952 onwards, Daimler-Benz also participated in a highly promising sports-car racing series with the 300 SL.
Overview
1894-1921
1922-1930
1931-1939
1951-1955
1956-1980
1981-1994