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Mar 16, 2012 · The 1935 Rudolf Caracciola Mercedes-Benz 500K “Roadster Limousine,” one of the most beautifully struck and elegant prewar cars ever built, was commissioned as a gift for one of the most...
Jan 22, 2012 · The 1935 Rudolf Caracciola Mercedes-Benz 500K "Roadster Limousine," one of the most beautifully struck and elegant prewar cars ever built, was commissioned as a gift for one of the most...
Dec 7, 2012 · Shipping Out. Media Platforms Design Team. Rudolf Caracciola leans on his 500K in 1937, at the port of Bremerhaven, as he prepares to sail to the United States for the Vanderbilt Cup race....
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Leonardo da Vinci famously said, “Details make perfection, and perfection is not a detail.” Considering that every detail in the glorious 500K is faultless, da Vinci’s words couldn’t be any more true than in this case. Mercedes-Benz made the interior from the highest-quality materials. For instance, the cockpit was covered in leather and has exquis...
The K in 500K stands for “kompressor,” which essentially means "supercharger". That in turn means the engine has forced induction which increases power and thus acceleration and speed when the accelerator pedal is pressed down. The 5.0-liter eight-cylinder engine delivered 160 horsepower at 3,400 revolutions per minute, and helped the 500K reach a ...
The powerful engine was designed for the incredible infrastructure projects that were popping up around Germany and for speeding on the new “Autobahn” (highway). For obvious reasons, the ultrarich class was eager to discover automobiles that could help them explore the country in style and take them from Point A to Point B in a faster and safer way...
Car and Driver says that the 1935 Rudolf Caracciola Mercedes-Benz 500 K “Roadster Limousine,”- a masterpiece that could attract millions of dollars at private auctions, was sitting forgotten at a junkyard in South Central Los Angeles. The famous automobile that was designed as a bespoke gift for the world-renowned race car driver passed through the...
However, he won 11 competitions in 1927, almost all of them in the Ferdinand Porsche-developed Mercedes-Benz Model S. Caracciola regained his German Grand Prix title at the Nürburgring at the 1928 German Grand Prix, driving the new 7.1-litre Mercedes-Benz SS.
The 1935 Rudolf Caracciola Mercedes-Benz 500K “Roadster Limousine,” one of the most beautifully struck and elegant prewar cars ever built, was commissioned as a gift for one of the most legendary race car drivers ever to turn the wheel.
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Competition success such as Rudolf Caracciola’s 1930 European Hillclimb Championship in a supercharged SSK helped sales, which had risen to 6,000 in 1932 from a workforce reduced to 9,000 by the virtual closure of the Benz factories.
