If you could get the Pebble Beach Automotive Week this year in search of the usual line-up of exotics of millions of dollars and coach-built hypercars, Mercedes-Benz Had so much more to offer. We gave an example of what we could expect last week. Well, now that the dust is finally established, we wanted to make a quick summary of everything that the three -pointed star had in store.
Their headline act? A Benz Prinz-Heinrich car from 1910 that led the Tour d’Elegance, restored by the Mercedes-Benz Classic Center. It contains a 5.7-liter four-cylinder with four-valve technology, double inflammation and a cardan drive, functions that were groundbreaking in 1910. Where most cars were still struggling with reliability at the time, this Benz was built for long-term competition in the Prinz-Heinrich-Fahrt, one of the earliest sustainable valves.
It seemed parked in addition to a private Mercedes Grand Prix car from 1914, with the attention of a time when Daimler and Benz were still rivals before they finally merged in 1926. For all its engineering, the Prinz-Heinrich de Charles A. Chayne trophy would come home, a prize since 1987 at the technologically advanced car of the era.
Mercedes already has ten “best of show” wins at Pebble, so adding a different controversial honor is reinforced his dominance here. In the end, Marcus Brechwerdt himself took the steering wheel of Mercedes-Benz Heritage CEO himself for the 62-MIJL Tour, where it was accompanied by a Mercedes-Maybach SL 680 monogram series.
Also, just like Goodwood this year, On the competition of Sunday d’Elegance, the German brand Also Leaned to the 75th anniversary of Formula 1, where they had Fangio’s legendary 1954-55 W 196 R Formula 1 car that was driven alongside the AMG F1 W16 of today by George Russell and Kimi Antonelli. That is 70 years of Formula 1 evolution, innovation and engineering represented in a single frame.
In Laguna Seca, a 1955 W 196 R and the legendary 300 SLR, yes, the car that Stirling Moss and Denis Jenkinson in record time the Mille Miglia Blitzten, shared the track with an equally exotic roofless V8 2009 SLR McLaren Stirling Moss.
But Pebble Beach is not only about the past, because Mercedes also rolled out the low-hanging 1,341-HP Concept AMG GT XX, which we saw in June. A design study, it looks at the next generation of powerful EVs of the brand. The futuristic Vision v People Carrier Concept, which made his American debut and the ultra-exclusive Maybach S 680 “Emerald Isle” (only 25 units for the US) were also on display.
Finally there was the “Stargaze Theater”, the pop-up drive-in from Mercedes with its greatest film cameras in history, where you got the chance to get cars like the Jurassic Park M-class, the Beverly Hills Cop 380 SL, and even the battered 220 SE of The hangover.
Mercedes also showed his latest Hollywood stint by displaying the Brad Pitt Starrer F1 The movie: APXGP Movie Prop Car next to the AMG GT 63 “APXGP Edition”, one of only 52 units built with the livrei of the film. This was a reminder of how Mercedes was woven deep into pop culture, which brought a spectacular variety of cars and a weekend full of action to an end.
Source: Mercedes-Benz
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