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Mercedes-Benz T 80 record car, 1939, website "mercedes-benz-classic.com" Official Mercedes-Benz Museum website; Speed record attempts, lists cars that attempted to break the land speed record from 1934 to 1940, including the T80. Museum tour of the Mercedes-Benz Museum at official website of European Car. Old Machine Press Page on the Mercedes ...
The main difference to the Grand Prix race car, which had to adhere to the 750 kg (1,653 lb) limit, was the engine. While the GP car had the 8-cylinder inline M125, which was rather tall, the record car was fitted with a V12 engine that was lower, which reduced drag. The car is on display in the Mercedes-Benz Museum [1] in Stuttgart.
The Mercedes-Benz W125 was a Grand Prix racing car produced by German auto manufacturer Mercedes-Benz to race during the 1937 Grand Prix season.Designed by head designer Rudolf Uhlenhaut, the car was used by Rudolf Caracciola to win the 1937 European Championship and W125 drivers also finished in the second, third and fourth positions in the championship.
Shmee150's Mercedes-AMG GT Black Series. The GT Black Series is a high-performance variant of the Mercedes-AMG GT and was officially revealed on Mercedes-AMG's YouTube channel on 9 July 2020. The M178 engine in this variant is tuned to an output of 537 kW (730 PS; 720 hp) at 6,700–6,900 rpm and 800 N⋅m (590 lb⋅ft) of torque at 2,000 ...
Lessons learned from this streamlining were later applied to the T80 land speed record car. Auto-Union Typ C Stromlinie For 1936, the engine had grown to the full 6 litres, and was now producing 520 bhp (390 kW); and reaching 258 mph (415 km/h) in the hands of Rosemeyer and his teammates, the Auto Union Type C dominated the racing world.
Roadsters/Sports cars: AMG GT: AMG GT: 2014 2023 – Front mid-engine, rear-wheel drive two- and four-seater grand tourer coupe and roadster. AMG GT 4-DOOR COUPÉ: AMG GT 4-Door Coupé: 2018 2018 2021 Front-engine, rear-wheel-drive 5-door liftback sedan. AMG SL: AMG SL: 1954 2022 – Front-engine, rear-wheel-drive two-seater grand tourer sports ...
The name was later applied to the Mercedes-Benz Formula One and sports cars in 1954 and 1955, then to the Sauber Group C prototype racing sports cars that raced at Le Mans in the late 1980s as well as the McLaren-Mercedes Formula One cars of the late 1990s and 2000s, and is currently applied to the Mercedes-AMG Petronas F1 cars from 2010 to ...
Land speed records by type of vehicle Category Speed (km/h) Speed (mph) Vehicle Operator Date Certifier Refs Land speed record [a] 1,227.985: 763.035: ThrustSSC: Andy Green: 15 Oct 1997 FIA [2] Wheel-driven [b] 745.187: 463.038: Vesco Turbinator II: Dave Spangler 14 Aug 2018 SCTA [3] [4] Piston-engine [c] 722.204: 448.757: Challenger 2: Danny ...