BUSINESS: Mercedes-Benz has just sold the world’s most expensive car

On Thurs­day, 19 May, the lux­u­ri­ous cars enter­prise pro­nounced it had bought one in all extra­or­di­nar­i­ly uncom­mon unique 300 SLR Uhlen­haut Coupes from the Mer­cedes-Benz Clas­sic Collection.

The auto­mo­bile become bought at pub­lic sale on Thurs­day, five May, to a non-pub­lic col­lec­tor for a whop­ping figure.

The Mer­cedes-Benz three hun­dred SLR Uhlen­haut Coupe from 1955 become bought for one hun­dred thir­ty five mil­lion Euros, mak­ing it the max­i­mum steeply-priced auto­mo­bile of all time.

CEO of Mer­cedes-Benz Group AG, Ola Käl­le­nius, stat­ed: “The three hun­dred SLR Uhlen­haut Coupes are mile­stones in sports activ­i­ties auto­mo­bile improve­ment and key ancient fac­tors which have fash­ioned our brand.

“The choice to pro­mote any such pre­cise sports activ­i­ties auto­mo­biles become eager about very sound rea­son­ing to advan­tage a great cause. The pro­ceeds from the pub­lic sale will fund a world­wide schol­ar­ship program.

With the ‘Mer­cedes-Benz Fund’ we would real­ly like to inspire a brand new tech­nol­o­gy to observe in Rudolf Uhlen­haut’s pro­gres­sive foot­steps and expand tremen­dous new tech­nolo­gies, espe­cial­ly those who assist the cru­cial pur­pose of decar­boniza­tion and aid preservation.

“At the equal time, attain­ing the very best fee ever paid for a car is exquis­ite and hum­bling: a Mer­cedes-Benz is with the aid of using a ways the max­i­mum pre­cious auto­mo­bile with­in­side the world.”

Jun­go Brüng­ger, mem­ber of the Board of Man­age­ment of Mer­cedes-Benz Group AG for Integri­ty and Legal Affairs, who’s addi­tion­al­ly in rate of the Mer­cedes-Benz Fund, defined how the ‘world­wide organ­i­sa­tion’ and ‘lux­u­ri­ous brand’ has a ‘extra­or­di­nary stage of duty in the direc­tion of society’.

“The pro­ceeds from the sale of the three hun­dred SLR Uhlen­haut Coupe offer us with a com­plete­ly unique pos­si­bil­i­ty to bol­ster our ded­i­ca­tion with a long-time peri­od flag­ship project: We will set up the world­wide schol­ar­ship pro­gram ‘Mer­cedes-Benz Fund’ help­ing younger human beings of their stud­ies, ded­i­ca­tion and moves in the direc­tion of a extra sus­tain­able future.

“We are sat­is­fied that get right of entry to to school­ing in those regions can be vital in encoun­ter­ing the extra­or­di­nary demand­ing sit­u­a­tions of our time and make a con­tri­bu­tion to more sta­bil­i­ty, pros­per­i­ty and social cohe­sion,” he said.

The Mer­cedes-Benz Fund is ready to be divid­ed into Uni­ver­si­ty Schol­ar­ships and School Schol­ar­ships – col­lege schol­ar­ships ‘with a pur­pose to con­nect, train and inspire col­lege stu­dents to comprehend/behavior stud­ies on envi­ron­men­tal tech­no­log­i­cal know-how tasks’, and fac­ul­ty schol­ar­ships ‘spe­cial­iz­ing in schol­ars to com­pre­hend neigh­bor­hood envi­ron­men­tal tasks of their communities’.