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Rudolf Caracciola, who at that time was the lead racing driver for Mercedes-Benz, achieved the record by hitting a speed of 268.862 mph (432.692 kmh) over one kilometre with a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":569231,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11272,73,9348,17100,18207],"tags":[17140,75,6910,22852,22928,12736,22851,13061,22929,17143],"class_list":["post-370094","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-members-only","category-mercedes-benz","category-guides","category-model-guides-race-cars","category-special-feature","tag-members-only","tag-mercedes-benz","tag-mercedes-model-in-depth","tag-mercedes-benz-model-guides-w125","tag-mercedes-benz-race-cars-featured","tag-w125","tag-mercedes-benz-w125-featured","tag-car-profiles","tag-race-cars-featured","tag-special-feature"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Mercedes-Benz W 125 Streamliner - Photos, Profile, History<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Photos, profile and history of the famed Mercedes-Benz W125 Streamliner that Rudolf Caracciola drove in 1938 to nearly 270 mph on the German Autobahn.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/mercedes-benz-w-125-streamliner-car-profile\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Mercedes-Benz W 125 Streamliner - Photos, Profile, History\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Photos, profile and history of the famed Mercedes-Benz W125 Streamliner that Rudolf Caracciola drove in 1938 to nearly 270 mph on the German Autobahn.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/mercedes-benz-w-125-streamliner-car-profile\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Supercars.net\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/Supercars.net\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2013-02-01T14:00:12+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2025-01-06T00:46:51+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/Mercedes-Benz-W-125-Streamliner-v1-1.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"690\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"280\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Sports Car Digest\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@supercars_net\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@supercars_net\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Sports Car Digest\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"4 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.supercars.net\\\/blog\\\/mercedes-benz-w-125-streamliner-car-profile\\\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.supercars.net\\\/blog\\\/mercedes-benz-w-125-streamliner-car-profile\\\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Sports Car Digest\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.supercars.net\\\/blog\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/188bd99a52d1e69543c54566c30e906b\"},\"headline\":\"Mercedes-Benz W125 Streamliner &#8211; 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