TOMAS WIRTH
Foreword
The Great Race Begins
Success Spurs Them On
Pushing the Periormance Envelope
The Six-Cylinder Era Begins
The Pointed Radiator is the Latest Style
Victory In Sicily
The Road to International Greatness
Premiere on the Nuerburgring
The joy of Performance Gains
The Crown of the Golden twenties
An Idea Takes Fiight
The Forrnula I Racing Car for the Street
The Legitimate Heir
Very Close to LIfe
Super-Flat, Super-Expensive, Super-Rare
Mercedes-Benz Starts in a New League
A DTM Racing Car for the Street
Here Comes the Next Act
Foreword
The Great Race Begins
Success Spurs Them On
Pushing the Periormance Envelope
The Six-Cylinder Era Begins
The Pointed Radiator is the Latest Style
Victory In Sicily
The Road to International Greatness
Premiere on the Nuerburgring
The joy of Performance Gains
The Crown of the Golden twenties
An Idea Takes Fiight
The Forrnula I Racing Car for the Street
The Legitimate Heir
Very Close to LIfe
Super-Flat, Super-Expensive, Super-Rare
Mercedes-Benz Starts in a New League
A DTM Racing Car for the Street
Here Comes the Next Act
That dream car of all dream cars, the Mercedes-Benz, is presented here in full glory through 285 images. What were the qualities that made them icons of all auto building? Beginning in the pioneer days with the 35 HP model of 1901 through the top-rank sports cars of the 1920s and 1930s, the gullwing-door 300 SL and the legendary "Uhlenhaut Coupe" of the 1950s, and the C 111, with its Wankel engine, of the late 1960s, the line goes on to the present-day SLS AMG. While history influenced changes in construction and design, they blend smoothly into a series yet retain distinctive variations. An exciting spectrum of 18 super sports cars is featured with text that is both entertaining and informative. For the sports car enthusiast and automotive history buff, this is a book you will refer to time and time again.
