Stuttgart, located in the Mercedes-Benz museum is for car enthusiasts pilgrimage.In the foreground (left) is Mercedes-benz’s legendary car: the gray 300 SL Coupe, with the doors opened upward like a gull’s wings. It was produced during the years 1954 to 1957, when it was replaced by the middle of the red 300 SL Roadsterilla. BO INGVES
the Mercedes-Benz museum Stuttgart the most popular tourist destinations, and not without reason. Wavy building in the city football stadium next to it is in itself attraction, and the motoring history interested can spend hours of quality time with the stunning classic cars surrounded by.
Carl Benz for a motorized tricycle (Patent-Motorwagen No. 1) was the world’s first patented car. Exhibited the car is a replica of the original. Gottfried Daimler launched a few months later, in the background the world’s first four-wheel car. Men never met, although they lived only 100 miles apart and their company later fused. BO INGVES
the Museum does not go into to tell the only car brand milestones, but it provides at the same time an interesting overview of German history, the country’s darkest moments of my life. Mercedes on the role of the third reich as a subcontractor and forced workers to use during the second world war for example, does not remain silent.
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Round top of the seventh layer of the ”Legends”division, which are soulful featured the original late 1800’s motor vehicles or their exact replicas. The car is featured in a combustion engine the car was born in 1886 when Carl Benz patented a gasoline-powered three-wheel Patent motor wagon in January.
a Few months later, Gottfried Daimler, patented in turn, about 100 miles away in Bad Cannstattin (now the Stuttgart district) four-wheel motorized vehicle, which is calculated by the world’s first four-wheel car. Although the companies later fused Mercedes-Benziksi, their founders never met.
on the Left sports car 300 SL that dominated the sports car endurance race series in 1952, and on the right the 300 SLR that won the world. The Mille miglia of Italy in 1955 and the crash at Le Mans the same year, with devastating consequences. In the background is the F1 cars of the late 1930s and the even older racing cars. BO INGVES
the Legends division, taking place from the old to the newer downward curved down the aisle. The museum a little off to the side located in the specific compartments will be presented in addition to all kinds of historical specialty vehicles and heavy equipment. Is currently on display in a special exhibition in the bundesliga team of VfB Stuttgart and Mercedes in 1893 continued cooperation. The team’s home field is right next to the museum.
If the momentum is enough still in the museum after the tour, is the shop downstairs next to the featured newer special sports cars. Down the aisle from the big car to the store, which is featured also Mercedes-benz’s latest creations.
the Woman behind
the role of Women in auto history is significant. One example of this is the Carl benz’s wife, Bertha, who made the couple’s two boys with long ajorupeaman her husband a tricycle vehicle in the summer of 1886. Trip gave birth in the car around something, what today would be called hypeksi.
Mercedes-Benz 500 K was the manufacturer’s first cannon in the 1930s and the image of the Roadster was a model of the most expensive and the most spectacular version. BO INGVES
When Benz & Cie merged into Daimler-Motoren-Gesellschaftiin 1926, the brand would come unexpectedly, Mercedes-Benz and not Daimler-Benz. The background was a French racing driver and Daimler distributor Emil Jellinek, who ordered himself a tailor-made racing car in 1900 at the turn. The car got Jellinekin daughter by the name of Mercedes, which in 1902 was registered Daimler trademarks.
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This can be mentioned that the racing car was designed by Daimler, the then technical director Wilhelm Maybach, who a few years after he left the company to manufacture luxury cars in your name below. That company merged, in turn, the Daimler group in 1960 and the name is still alive in the group ylellisimmissä models.
political traction
today’s German born after the second world war the reconstruction of the miracle of pregnancy and when the current federal government was born in 1949. Mercedes-Benz 300 (internal product code W186) was named, for example, generally ”Adeunaueriksi”, West germany’s former chancellor Konrad Adenauer. Free advertising boosted sales and the company is rapidly internationalising and building already in the early 1950s assembly factories in Argentina, Brazil and India.
a Sign of a very successful race car business in the 1930s, had broken the second world war, but in the early 1950s the character returned again on the race track. When a race-car 300 SL (W194) was introduced in 1952, it took a double victory in Le Mans, and dominate at it through the sports car endurance competition.
Le Mans catastrophic accident in 1955, the racing action was abolished and Mercedes returned to the race track until the end of the 1980s F1 team sauber’s engine supplier. Mika cage of more than 40 years after the break mark the first official F1 world champion 1998 McLaren-Mercedes-his car. BO INGVESVasemmalla sports car 300 SL that dominated the sports car endurance race series in 1952, and on the right the 300 SLR that won the world. The Mille miglia of Italy in 1955 and the crash at Le Mans the same year, with devastating consequences. In the background is the F1 cars of the late 1930s and the even older racing cars. BO INGVES
the Next year, the company’s competitive activities in were focused, however, only the F1 car (W196) development, and that Juan Manuel Fangio drove to the world championship in 1954 and 1955. F1-car basis, was also built two-seater racing car 300 SLR (W196S), which was completely overwhelming in 1955 sports car races. A company car sport activity was abolished, however, altogether for decades after that period, when Pierre bouilli of control by car drove the worst crash in Le Mans. A car accident as a result of more than 80 spectators were killed and almost 200 injured.
the Legend is born
Although the racing action ended in an accident, the sports car manufacturer is by no means the end. An example of this is the car of history one of the iconic cars, in the years 1954 to 1957 completed the 300 SL ”Gullwing” Coupe (W198), whose doors opened upward like a gull’s wings.
the Car strong and very lightweight aluminum frame had to cancel the original racing version in 1952, and in the car it was not possible to build a conventional door. In 1957, in its place came SL 300 Roadster, whose body had been modified so that it was able to install a normal door. The Roadster was in production until 1963.
These cars brand established in the 1950s status, especially luxury and sports car manufacturer, and also the U.S. market opened. Reputation is a position these days, and although the brand manufacturer now also a lot of ordinary passenger cars, sports cars are still an important part of the action.
Overall, the museum an interesting mix of technology, the stories and history appropriate for different ages, although the engine technology and the car itself is not interested.
the Museum is open tue-sun from 9 to 18. Entrance 10 euros.
the Exhibit has a total of over 160 vehicles, from old treasures always in a different era race cars and the many special vehicles.
Address: Mercedesstraße 100, 70372 Stuttgart. The museum is close to the tram stop.
for more Information: www.mercedes-benz.com/museum
currently travelling to Stuttgart from Helsinki is easy, because the Finnair matter on direct flights every day. Most time on ice on the spot, if you travel to Germany, Monday, Tuesday, Thursday or Saturday morning shift and come back Friday, Sunday or Wednesday evening flight to Stuttgart.
