Mercedes-Benz 300SL auction $4.6million

 

Mercedes-Benz 300SL recently successfully auctioned off with a pretty crazy rate of U.S. $ 4.6 million.

 

As reported by the Wall Street Journal, coupe car which is famous for having a certain form of gull-wing doors or gullwing style is one of the 1400 Mercedes-Benz 300SL that ever came into the world in the period 1954-1957 and 1 in 29 Mercedes-Benz 300SL that is made from materials alloy.

And the auction house auction conducted by Mercedes-Benz 300SL Gooding & Co. in Scottsdale, Arizona, this car can invite admiration and made ​​it through the initial prediction that was at U.S. $ 2.5 million to U.S. $ 3 million.

A relatively high sales prices is also 10 times higher than the average price of this car in 10 years ago. So practically every year the price of this car and the ride continues to be used as an investment by its owners.

For example, in 2000 ago, the price of one unit of Mercedes-Benz 300SL steel-bodied in the USA is approximately U.S. $ 300,000 figure, but now, the price of similar cars already reached U.S. $ 2.2 million (USD 19.6 billion) in auction the same. While the car made ​​from higher alloy and can be many orders of magnitude longer than the steel version.

Mercedes-Benz 300SL itself is a street version of a racing car that won Le Mans 24 hour race in 1952 and includes a rare item.

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