a cool statue was duplicated and placed at Monza, the Nürburgring, Monaco and Buenos Aries

Designed by Joaquim Ros i Sabaté in 1996, Fangio standing next to 1954 Mercedes-Benz W196 race car.

https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=122301573572193145&set=gm.3234698916723336&idorvanity=527146584145263

https://www.deviantart.com/cynderfan35/art/Alberto-Ascari-in-Monza-215770555

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Statue_of_Juan_Manuel_Fangio

During a practice session, Fangio ( the reigning World Champion) returned to the pits and complained to the team that his Mercedes-Benz W196 (or 300 SLR) was not set up properly and was behaving poorly on the track.

Uhlenhaut (driving engineer for Mercedes-Benz, and the father of Mercedes-Benz 300 SL) fresh from an executive lunch and still dressed in a full suit and tie, climbed into Fangio's race car.

 He went out onto the notoriously demanding Nürburgring and turned in a lap 3 seconds faster than the reigning World Champion's time.

 "the gentlemen should practice more" was his comment afterwards...

https://petrolicious.com/blogs/articles/the-mercedes-engineer-that-was-too-good-to-race

all stories like this should be gathered in one book, about the funny things said and done in the racing world for the past 120 years

I bet this diorama inspired by a photo is going to amaze you, made by Ramón Cubiró / Velasor Legendary Models

https://www.facebook.com/velasor.vlm

https://velasor.com/

I'm so impressed, I'd like you to see a couple more:

I just learned that Mercedes teamed up with Brad Pitt and George Russell to make a commercial about their new car

I did not realize Steven Tyler's mouth was really this big... wow. Makes you wonder if it's abnormally large, maybe a record size? Anyway, thanks to Steve for telling me about this photo collection!

Steven Tyler with his 1956 Mercedes-Benz 220S were taken by Ron Pownall at Jamaica Pond in Boston, Massachusetts in October 1975 for CREEM magazine.

https://www.vintag.es/2026/03/steven-tyler-1956-mercedes-220s.html#google_vignette

the walking for last week was postponed until the temps dropped, and the walking the last 2 days? Very disappointing in cool car results. These two are all there were that even reached the level of old and interesting except for the MG

 

a couple newer vehicles that are strangely non op. The Benz wagon is an odd looking car, I've never seen one like it before

 

that roof is VERY rusted

Seen on the way home yesterday night... while stuck in traffic. Just how ugly must Mercedes make their spare tire? And why would anyone BLOCK bikers from splitting lanes?

I don't think a Mercedes is supposed to sit on the street with a floor jack propping it up. Ditto a battery tender

Tuksedo Studios in Bali, building 5 Mercedes 300 SL a year by hand, to order

because there is no legal importing old cars into Indonesia

Paul Newman at the racetrack... it doesn't get a whole lot cooler than that

Compare and contrast with Paul advertising a Mercedes or water ski

https://www.tumblr.com/coolthingsguyslike

I bet no babies get named Paul this year... regular ol names like Paul aren't in fashion anymore. 

Mercedes-Benz Special Trucks (a division) has revealed the most luxurious Unimog ever. Not sure how many they're going to sell, but that was my opinion of the Cybertruck too

https://www.autoblog.com/news/mercedes-benz-special-trucks-luxury-unimog

to make vehicle production more environmentally friendly, Mercedes is looking at using screws instead of glue, when assembling headlights with individual components

being able to unscrew one and replace it with a fresh piece makes replacement easier, which avoids junking an entire headlight because of one bad part. 

Mercedes is also looking into simpler assembly processes for other parts. For interior door panels, it hopes to replace ultrasonic welding with thermoplastic rivets that are easy to undo, allowing the door panel to be disassembled and individual materials separated for recycling when a car has reached the end of its lifespan.

Mercedes may also use old tires to make synthetic leather and sound-absorption material, and engine mounts made from recycled airbags, if current experiments pan out.

https://www.thedrive.com/news/mercedes-wants-to-go-back-to-basics-and-use-screws-not-glue

Yul Brynner rolling up to the premiere of The Ten Commandments in 1956, in a 300 SL

 https://dailytimewaster.blogspot.com/2025/12/yul-brynner-rolling-up-to-premiere-of.html

This is a cool custom Benz... while I was checking it out, a high school shop teacher asked the builder to bring it by the school to inspire the kids in auto shop class! Awesome!

no way! how did two of these get built at the same time and end up getting displayed across the aisle from each other? Regardless of my impression of it, this made it to the top 12 of the Battle of the Builders

https://www.sema.org/news-media/enews/2025/45/sema-announces-battle-builders-top-12/-25ss

If you need a Waterpump to just last and last...

 

https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=1119803036904361&set=a.501029018781769

Officers of the 101st airborne after liberating Herman Görings Mercedes. 1945.

https://www.reddit.com/r/OldSchoolCool/comments/12574uo/officers_of_the_101st_airborne_after_liberating/#lightbox

this 55 Gullwing was ordered new by the engineer/designer at Hudson (thank you Doug!)

I find it interesting to see what the people who run car companies buy for their own driving pleasure... 

this one was ordered new by Frank Spring, chief engineer for Hudson, who was responsible for penning the Hudson Italia.

And until looking through the photos on this, I didn't know that Mercedes (or Daimler Benz) put belly pans on these 

https://bringatrailer.com/listing/1955-mercedes-benz-300sl-gullwing-14/

It's been 125 years since one of the auto industry's most celebrated designers filed a patent for a device that would become a central characteristic of the modern car to this very day, a prerequisite for producing a strong power output. The radiator

Wilhelm Maybach's original patent for the cross flow honeycomb radiator design unlocked the potential of gasoline engines.

Designed specifically as a high-performance alternative to earlier tube-style radiators, Maybach filed a patent for the new honeycomb radiator design, which he intended to deliver maximum cooling capacity with a compact design.

https://carbuzz.com/wilhelm-maybach-mercedes-benz-radiator-history