That original W125 Rekordwagen is now on static display at the Mercedes factory museum in Stuttgart, but 80 years before, its V-12 engine hurtled a fearless man down a stretch of the A5 autobahn ...

The EQ Silver Arrow is a tribute to the 1937 W125 Rekordwagen that, with Rudi Caracciola behind the wheel, set a speed record of 268 miles per hour on a public road that wouldn't be beaten until 2017.

The stylists found inspiration for the EQ Silver Arrow in the W125 Rekordwagen of 1937. Based on a Grand Prix race car, the W125 got an all-new body for the explicit purpose of going extremely fast.

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

The Grand Prix ace also set the then world land speed record in a Mercedes-Benz W125 Rekordwagen during a time trial race between the car giant and rival Audi. His top speed over a mile was just ...

What are we going on about? On January 28, 1938, racing driver Rudolf Caracciola drove a specially modified Mercedes-Benz W125 grand prix racer on a stretch of German Autobahn near Frankfurt and ...

One of Mercedes’ best Arrows was the W125, designed by Rudolf Uhlenhaut for the 1937 Grand Prix season and driven by Rudolf Caracciola. The driver and his car managed to win the series that year ...

The impressive single-seat model pays homage to the Silver Arrows racers of the 1930s, in particular, the W125 Rekordwagen that set the record for the fastest speed on a public road (432.6kph ...

The stylists found inspiration for the EQ Silver Arrow in the the W125 Rekordwagen of 1937. Based on a Grand Prix race car, the W125 got an all-new body for the explicit purpose of going extremely ...