Mercedes-Benz
Mercedes-Benz descends directly from the invention of the automobile itself — Karl Benz's Patent-Motorwagen of 1886 — and its collector catalogue reads like the history of the car: the supercharged S-types of the 1920s, the 500K and 540K masterpieces, the all-conquering Silver Arrows, and the 300 SL Gullwing, perpetually shortlisted as the greatest sports car ever made. The Pagoda and R107 SLs, the 600 Grosser and the AMG era — from the hand-built Hammer saloons to the Black Series cars — each anchor thriving markets of their own. The 300 SLR Uhlenhaut Coupé's €135 million sale in 2022 made it the most expensive car ever sold, a record that says everything about where the three-pointed star sits in the collector world.
Mercedes-Benz SSK
Ferdinand Porsche's supercharged short-chassis monster — the most fearsome sports car of the late 1920s.
Mercedes-Benz 500K / 540K
The pre-war German grand tourer — supercharged straight-eight luxury with Sindelfingen-built coachwork of unmatched theatre.
Mercedes-Benz W25 / W125 / W154
The Silver Arrows — Mercedes-Benz's state-backed Grand Prix machines that defined the most extreme era of pre-war racing.
Mercedes-Benz 300 SL Gullwing
Mercedes-Benz's post-war icon in coupe form: gullwing doors, spaceframe chassis and permanent blue-chip status.
Mercedes-Benz W196
The 2.5-litre Silver Arrow — Fangio's 1954 and 1955 titles, Moss's first GP win at Aintree, 9 wins from 12 GPs.
Mercedes-Benz 190 SL
Postwar Mercedes roadster styled in lockstep with the 300 SL — a 1.9-litre, four-cylinder elegance over performance.
Mercedes-Benz 300 SLR
Mercedes-Benz's 1955 World Sportscar Championship car — 2.98-litre desmodromic straight-eight, ten built including the two Uhlenhaut Coupés.
Mercedes-Benz 300 SL Roadster
The open, more usable W198: same fuel-injected straight-six, softer chassis, and a more forgiving ownership proposition than the Gullwing.
Mercedes-Benz 600 'Grosser' (W100)
The ultimate post-war state limousine — Geiger and Bracq's W100, the M100 6.3 V8 and hydraulic everything.
Mercedes-Benz Pagoda (W113) 230/250/280 SL
Paul Bracq's concave-roof masterpiece — the elegantly proportioned SL of the 1960s, in three displacements.
Mercedes-Benz 280 SE 3.5 Cabriolet
Mercedes-Benz's last truly hand-built cabriolet — the 1969–1971 W111 with the new M116 3.5-litre V8, of which only 1,232 were completed across three years (RM Sotheby's Monterey 2024 catalogue).
Mercedes-Benz R107 SL (350/450/560)
Eighteen years of definitive Mercedes grand tourer — from early 350 SL through V8 360 / 380 / 420 / 450 / 500 / 560 derivatives.
Mercedes-Benz SL (R129)
The fourth-generation Mercedes-Benz SL, produced from 1989 to 2001 in six-cylinder, V8, V12 and AMG forms — one of the most rigid, most over-engineered convertibles Mercedes-Benz has ever built, and the platform for the hand-built AMG V12 catalogue cars culminating in the SL 73 AMG.
Mercedes-Benz 190E 2.5-16 Evolution II
DTM homologation special — the wild-winged W201 that turned the compact Mercedes into a four-door icon.
Mercedes-Benz 500 E (W124)
The W124 super-saloon co-developed and hand-built with Porsche — conceived as the E34 BMW M5's rival.
Mercedes-Benz CLK GTR
FIA GT1 homologation Mercedes — V12, carbon tub, 25 road cars (20 coupes + 6 roadsters).
Mercedes-Benz SL 55 / SL 63 AMG (R230)
Folding-hardtop AMG SL — the supercharged M113 and the naturally-aspirated M156 V8 in Mercedes's grand-touring roadster.
Mercedes-Benz SLR McLaren
Mercedes-McLaren collaboration grand tourer — supercharged V8, carbon construction and the rarefied Stirling Moss roadster.
Mercedes-Benz SLK 55 AMG
The naturally aspirated AMG V8 SLK — folding-hardtop roadster with the M113 5.4-litre in the R171 and the M152 5.5-litre in the R172.
Mercedes-Benz SLK 55 AMG Black Series
The first-ever AMG Black Series — R171, folding roof deleted, M113 5.4 NA V8 at 400 PS.
Mercedes-Benz CLK 63 AMG Black Series
Wide-arched, naturally-aspirated M156 V8 coupe — the most analogue and arguably the purest of the AMG Black Series cars.
Mercedes-Benz SL 65 AMG Black Series
R230, twin-turbo V12, fixed carbon roof — 661 hp, torque electronically capped at 1,000 Nm, ~250 kg lighter than the standard SL 65.
Mercedes-Benz SLS AMG
AMG's first ground-up supercar — gullwing doors, a naturally aspirated 6.2-litre V8 and the spiritual successor to the 300 SL.
Mercedes-Benz C 63 AMG Coupé Black Series
W204 coupé only, 2012 — SLS AMG GT3-inspired widebody, M156 6.2 NA V8 at 517 PS.
Mercedes-Benz G 63 AMG 6×6
The definitive factory six-wheeler — W463-based, Magna Steyr, portal axles derived from the military G 6×6, and the M157 5.5 twin-turbo V8.
Mercedes-Benz SLS AMG Black Series
C197 — the final SLS and the only gullwing Black Series; M159 6.2 NA V8 at 622 hp with an 8,000 rpm redline.
Mercedes-Benz AMG GT (C190/R190)
AMG's first ground-up two-seat sports car — front-mid engine 4.0 twin-turbo V8, spanning base GT to the 750-unit GT R Pro across a single generation.
Mercedes-Benz AMG GT Black Series
Record-setting swansong of the C190 — flat-plane M178-derived 4.0 twin-turbo V8, the most powerful AMG V8 production engine at launch.
Mercedes-Benz AMG ONE
Formula 1 powertrain in a road car — 1.6-litre turbo V6 hybrid producing 1,063 PS, capped at 275 units.