Mercedes-Benz Museum

By Rob Einaudi

Editor-in-Chief

Last week I spent a few days in Stuttgart, Germany, hanging out with the good folks at Mercedes-Benz. My first stop was the Mercedes-Benz Museum, constructed at considerable expense in 2006. If you ever find yourself in southern Germany, I would definitely recommend stopping by. The architecture is pretty amazing (check out the cool elevators zipping up and down on the pic below), but given the fact that I didn’t have too much time, I mostly focused on the cars. You can see all the pics I shot in our events section, but I’ve posted a few highlights (with links to video!) after the jump.

Benz three wheeler from 1886!

This 1936 Mercedes-Benz 500 K Special Roadster is a knockout. Check out the walk-around video on StreetFire!

Ultra cool 1955 300 SLR with matching transporter. Check out the walk-around video on StreetFire!

Mercedes developed a 300 SLR coupe for the 1956 racing season, but then they decided to get out of motorsports for a while. So the head of the Test Department got to use it as his daily driver! Check out the walk-around video on StreetFire!

The Races and Records section was super cool. Check out my epic walk-around video on StreetFire!

And here’s a quick peek into the future.

I’ll post about my visit to the Mercedes-Benz design studio tomorrow, so stay tuned!