A special edition car typically highlights a special moment or event in the carmaker’s history. A landmark anniversary? A motorsport...
1886 Benz Patent Motor Car With the stationary two-stroke gas engine he had developed in 1879/80, Karl Benz had earned...
1899 Benz 8HP Rennwagen With this car, Fritz Held won the class victory and the Great Gold Medal in the...
1900 Benz 16HP Rennwagen In Detail engine water-Cooled Conta Flat Twin Cyl position Mid Engined aspiration Natural valvetrain 2 Valves...
1900 Benz 20HP Rennwagen First Benz car with inclined steering column:This racing car, developed by Georg Diehl and equipped with...
1900 Mercedes 35HP Rennwagen In 1900, Daimler-Motoren-Gesellschat (DMG) produced a special car, named after its horsepower. Emil Jellinek, DMG’s cheif...
1901 Mercedes 35HP Phaeton The Phaeton was the passenger car version of the first 35HP Race-Car which won many French...
1902 Mercedes 40HP Simplex The 35 hp Mercedes was quickly followed by the 40 hp car which included numerous new...
1903 Benz 60HP Parsifal Rennwagen This car was built in direct competition with Mercedes: Karl Benz could work up little...
1903 Mercedes 60HP Simplex The 90 hp car built for the Gordon Bennett Cup race was destroyed in the great...
1903 Mercedes 90HP Rennwagen The 90 HP Rennwagen built for the Gordon Bennet race was destroyed in a factory fire...
1904 Mercedes 90HP Rennwagen The design of the 90 hp Mercedes that was built in 1904 was almost identical with...
1905 Mercedes 120HP Rennwagen In Detail submitted by Richard Owen engine M 175464, Cats Iron, Inline-4 position Front Longitudinal aspiration...
1906 Mercedes 120HP Rennwagen The 120 hp Mercedes racing car of 1906 was fitted with the first six-cylinder car engine...
1906 Mercedes 80HP Rennwagen The racing engine’s technology is based on the 60 hp engine constructed by Maybach in 1903....
1907 Benz 60HP Targa Florio Rennwagen In 1906, a new high-performance racing car was built that was powerful enough to...
1907 Mercedes 120HP Rennwagen The cylinder dimensions were equivalent to those of a six-cylinder test engine designed by Paul Daimler...
1908 Benz 120HP Rennwagen The 120 hp Benz of 1908 is one of three cars which were successfully entered in...
1908 Benz 150HP Rennwagen The 150 hp Benz Grand Prix racing car, built in 1908, was used for the first...
1908 Mercedes 140HP Mercedes was victorious at the 1908 French Grand Prix near Dieppe with a 140HP grand rpix car...
1908 Mercedes 150HP Semmering Rennwagen This car had the largest displacement of all the cars ever built by DMG. The...
1909 Benz 200HP Blitzen-Benz At the beginning of 1909, Julius Ganss, working for Benz, was given permission to design a...
1910 Benz 80HP ‘Prinz-Heinrich’ In its day, the “Prinz-Heinrich Fahrt” (Prince Heinrich Tour), named after the brother of the German...
1910 Mercedes 28/50 PS Beginning in 1910, Mercedes offered their mid-range 7.2-liter cars with a more modern drive shaft system....
1911 Mercedes 37/90HP In June 1911 the 37/90 hp Mercedes became the new top-of-the-range model in the DMG sales portfolio....
1913 Mercedes 18/100 A completely new car was built for the French Grand Prix and finally replaced the old 1903...
1913 Mercedes 28/60 PS In 1913, Mercedes updated their mid-range 7.2-liter cars to have 60 HP at 1300rpm. These were...
1913 Mercedes 90HP Rennwagen A completely new car was built for the French Grand Prix and finally replaced the old...
1913 Mercedes-Knight 16/45HP Touring The Mercedes-Knight racing car, with its sleeve-valve engine that used slide-valves instead of poppet valves, was...
1914 Mercedes 115HP Grand Prix In 1914 Mercedes-Benz would make a triumphant return to successfull Grand Prix racing. That year...
1921 Mercedes 28/95HP This car was DMG’s flagship from 1914 to 1924 and laid the foundation of the high reputation...
1922 Mercedes 6/40/65HP Rennwagen DMG’s first supercharged racer, designed by Paul Daimler: This car was fitted with the first DMG...
1923 Mercedes Indianapolis Paul Daimler’s last design for DMG: The engine of this car was based on the successful 10/40/65...
1924 Mercedes Monza First Eight-cylinder Mercedes: This was the first car that Ferdinand Porsche himself designed in his new capacity...
1924 Mercedes Targa Florio The car is based on the 1923 Indianapolis car, redesigned by Ferdinand Porsche. DMG’s new chief...
1924→1926 Mercedes 24/100/140 PS Paul Daimler left DMG in 1922 in disagreement with the Supervisory Board. It had called for...
1926→1929 Mercedes-Benz 630 K In 1926 the 24/100/140HP model Mercedes was renamed into the Mercedes-Benz 630 K. A centerpeice of...
1927 Mercedes-Benz 680 S Soon after the merger of Mercedes and Benz, the two started developing the world’s fastest sports...
1928→1932 Mercedes-Benz 720 SSK The Mercedes-Benz is considered the summit of a six-cylinder series which debuted in the 1920s, in...
1928→1933 Mercedes-Benz 460 Nürburg Mercedes unveiled their Typ Nürburg 460 as their first eight-cylinder passenger car and it was typically...
1928→1933 Mercedes-Benz 710 SS Near the top of Mercedes’ extensive range, which produced cars from 1.3 to 7.7 litres, was...
1930 Mercedes-Benz 710 SSK Trossi Roadster One of the most revered sports cars in the world is the SSK and...
1930 Mercedes-Benz 710 SSK Trossi Roadster Gallery...
1930→1943 Mercedes-Benz 770 Großer The ‘Grand Mercedes’ – model 770 – was launched at the Paris Motor Show in October...
1930→1943 Mercedes-Benz 770 Großer The ‘Grand Mercedes’ – model 770 – was launched at the Paris Motor Show in October...
1930→1943 Mercedes-Benz 770 Großer The ‘Grand Mercedes’ – model 770 – was launched at the Paris Motor Show in October...