The car was a heavily modified Mercedes-Benz W125 ... its V-12 engine hurtled a fearless man down a stretch of the A5 autobahn where Germans today commute to Frankfurt. The Rekordwagen is at ...

The special Mercedes display included numerous vehicles documenting the marque's storied racing heritage, including this famous W125 ... New rules on engine size forced its retirement in 1938.

The latest to throw its hat in that particular ring is Mercedes-Benz with its gorgeous EQ ... The EQ Silver Arrow is a tribute to the 1937 W125 Rekordwagen that, with Rudi Caracciola behind ...

The Mercedes-Benz W125 Rekordwagen, which means record ... Also ditched was the original inline eight cylinder engine, in favor of a 736-horsepower V12 that could be mounted lower in the belly ...

The W125's supercharged 5.6 liter engine produced 595 bhp ... in an aerodynamically optimised rekordwagen version of the W 125. Mercedes-Benz 12-cylinder record car W 125, 1938.

We're talking about Mercedes-Benz and Auto Union ... German manufacturer at the time. The W25 rekordwagen's second iteration came in 1936, with the engine switching to a twin-supercharged V12 ...

The fully electric concept car is inspired by the 1938 Mercedes-Benz W125 Rekordwagen – a top-speed record car with a twin-supercharged 5.5-liter V12 engine that made 725 hp. In the hands of ...

The car was a heavily modified Mercedes-Benz W125 Grand Prix racer ... That original W125 Rekordwagen is now on static display at the Mercedes factory museum in Stuttgart, but 80 years before, its ...