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The 300 SL's first race was the 1952 Mille Miglia. [35] The 1,564-kilometre (972 mi) race was from Brescia to Rome and back, pitting Karl Kling's 300 SL against Giovanni Bracco's new 3-liter V-12 Ferrari. [36] Bracco won, besting the second place Mercedes by four minutes and 32 seconds. [36]
The Mercedes-Benz W194 (also called 300 SL) is an endurance racer produced by Mercedes-Benz for the 1952 Sportscar racing season, its first after World War II.. Powered by the 3.0 litre SOHC straight-6 M194 engine, it ran off an impressive string of victories that included 24 Hours of Le Mans, Bern-Bremgarten, the Eifelrennen at Nürburgring, and Mexico's Carrera Panamericana.
Mercedes-Benz has sold a number of automobiles with the "300" model name: . 1951–1957 W186. 1951–1957 300; 1951–1958 W188. 1951–1958 300S; 1954–1963 W198. 1954–1963 300SL ...
The Mercedes-Benz SL-Class (marketed as Mercedes-AMG SL since 2022) is a grand touring sports car manufactured by Mercedes-Benz since 1954. The designation "SL" derives from the German term "Sport-Leicht", which translates to "Sport Light" in English.
Rudolf Uhlenhaut: Engineer and Gentleman. The Father of the Mercedes 300 SL. Translated by Pollak, Carmen. Deerfield, IL, USA: Dalton Watson Fine Books. ISBN 9781854432827. Sugahara, Louis (2004). Mercedes-Benz Grand Prix Race Cars 1934–1955. Fredericksburg, TX, USA: Mercedes-Benz Classique Car Library. ISBN 1933123001. (includes the 300 SLR)
The 1990 Mercedes-Benz SL base model was the 228 hp 300 SL version [11] (European 300 SL-24) equipped with a five-speed manual or five-speed automatic transmission, but it was the 322 hp 500 SL (with a 5.0-litre V8 engine) which made the most headlines. For model year 1993, the 600 SL was additionally introduced stateside.