We got behind the wheel of the Mercedes-Benz that took part in the 1924 Targa Florio legendary Italian road race. It’s an elemental thing, the 2.0-liter Mercedes-Benz Targa Florio. You’re out in the ...

The Indianapolis Motor Speedway Museum sold a Mercedes-Benz W 196 R Grand Prix race car on Feb. 1 at the Mercedes-Benz Museum. (Photo by Maximilian Balazs, courtesy of the Mercedes Benz Museum) A ...

A fairly recent but already somewhat accepted practice of car modding is engine swapping. This has already been going on for years with proper race cars, but as technology and capabilities improve and ...

Then there was its appearance at the 1955 Italian Grand Prix in Monza, with Stirling Moss at the wheel. The famed British driver briefly lead the race, ahead of Fangio, but was forced to retire with ...

Race cars built for specific rule sets are limited to the performance windows of those classes, but automakers are not restricted from taking the homework they've done for those categories and making ...

History is priceless only if no one can afford it or it's not for sale. The first publicly-available 1954 Mercedes-Benz W196 R Stromlinienwagen sold for $53.9 million at auction on Saturday after ...