W 196 R Stromlinienwagen Mercedes Benz has sold for $53 million -- its Grand Prix heritage led to the extraordinary price.

The world of car auctions has seen some of the rarest models in the world go under the hammer, with some fetching sky-high prices as a result.

A Mercedes streamliner once driven by Formula One greats Juan Manuel Fangio and Stirling Moss made history at the weekend ...

The Brawn GP story is one of the fairytales of modern F1 history. Ross Brawn, formerly technical director for Honda’s F1 ...

A 1954 Mercedes-Benz W196 R Stromlinienwagen sold for $53.9 million at a Sotheby’s auction on Saturday, making it the most ...

Another of Sir Stirling Moss’s old cars, this time a Jaguar D-Type which the British legend raced at the 1954 24 Hours of Le ...

Besides the 1954 and 2013 Mercedes F1 cars, the Silver Arrows have another record-breaking car auctioned at over $50 million ...

A Mercedes W196 R streamliner F1 car raced by Juan Manuel Fangio and Stirling Moss has become the most expensive Grand Prix car ever sold at auction ...

An ultra-rare vintage Mercedes Grand Prix race car sold for $54M USD at auction last weekend. This legendary race car was ...

An auction at the Mercedes-Benz Museum in Stuttgart (Germany) broke a record for an F1 car. A Streamliner W196 driven by ...

A Mercedes-Benz just sold for US$52.4 million (€51.15 million) at auction, though the real story is the relentless and ...