1:18 SLS AMG Minichamps model car:

1:18 SLS AMG model car from Minichamps

Product code: AA76232

Prices expected are around 100 € / 148 $

Product code: CMC076

Bellow are interesting informations about the real car:

Of the nine W196s chassis built, one was destroyed in the Le Mans disaster. Of the eight that remained (and prior to the accident) Mercedes motorsport chief Rudolf Uhlenhaut had ordered two to be set aside for modification into a sort of hybrid between the SLR and the SL, featuring a slightly widened version of the SLR’s chassis with enclosed bodywork for aerodynamic purposes. Again, the strong, high sill beams of the spaceframe required the fitment of the same famous ‘gull-wing’ top-hinged doors of the other two types. For testing, and in preparation for a possible Mercedes participation in the 1956 race season, two road-legal SLRs were built. Due to Mercedes’ planned withdrawal from competitive motorsport at the end of 1955, the programme was abandoned, leaving Uhlenhaut to use one of the cars as a company car. This prolonged road use required the fitting of an extra suitcase-sized muffler to the near-unsilenced exhaust pipes to avoid arrest for breach of the peace.

This Uhlenhaut Coupé was regarded as the world’s fastest car in the 1950s, and it is rumoured that, running late for a meeting, Uhlenhaut exploited the unlimited autobahns to make today’s two-and-a-half-hour journey from Munich to Stuttgart in just over an hour. The Uhlenhaut Coupe was road tested by the US magazine Motor Trend and by two English journalists from Automobile Revue at four o’clock in the morning on a closed section of motorway outside Munich. The latter wrote; “We are driving a car which barely takes a second to overtake the rest of the traffic and for which 120 mph on a quiet motorway is little more than walking pace. With its unflappable handling through corners, it treats the laws of centrifugal force with apparent disdain,” after a total of more than 2,000 miles (3,200 km). His only regret was that this was a sports car “which we will never be able to buy and which the average driver would never buy anyway.”

However, despite this, the title of “world’s fastest car” is disputed by those who believe the 340 hp 5.0 L V12 engine of the Ferrari 410 Superamerica could have pushed that Ferrari to a higher top speed than the 170 mph (270 km/h) of the 1964 500 Superfast.

300 SLR Uhlenhaut Coupe 1955

Registrations can be made at www.mercedes-benz.com/sammlerboerse. It costs 25 euros to rent a table. The collectors’ fair in the Mercedes-Benz Museum is being organized in cooperation with Automania, Mercedes-Benz Accessories and the Mercedes-Benz Model Car Club. As special offer, the auction house Seidel will make free value appraisals during the entire day.

Further information is available online at www.mercedes-benz.com/museum or over the phone from the Mercedes-Benz Classic Customer Center, tel. +49 (0)711 / 17-30 000. The address of the Mercedes-Benz Museum: Mercedesstrasse 100, 70372 Stuttgart.

The Mercedes-Benz Museum is holding its first collectors’ fair for models, brochures, literature, pins and accessories on Saturday 28 November 2009 . The fair will be open from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m.

To mark the occasion of the first Mercedes-Benz collectors’ fair two strictly limited Silver Arrow pins will be available on fair day. In addition, the Mercedes-Benz Museum will be offering two exclusive special 1:87 and 1:43 scale models in the Museum Shop on this occasion.

1:18 Minichamps Mercedes SL500 R230 Diecast Model car

This 1:18 Mercedes E350 has the following features: front doors open, hood, trunk, steerable wheels.

Price expected for this E350 miniature is around 30 € / 44 $

Product code: AA76231

Prices expected are around 100 € / 148 $

Photos are not available yet!

The car is expected to hit the stores in the next few weeks, some are saying it will be launched in January 2010.