Mercedes Museum Stuttgart

If you wonder what this is, you are in good company! This is a MERCEDES BENZ car.....Far out eh? More of these in this place I visited for the second time.

The entrance of the new relocated Museum. The older one is just across the road under the flyover of the left of this picture. This is the home of the internal combustion engine that gave us the industrial revolution after the steam engine, enrich the Arabs and cause climate change that will ultimately wipe out the whole world! Burning life that existed 65 million years ago brings vengeance from those that died then, to claim back this world, now at an accelerated pace. Each civilization lasted thousands of years, only the ICT modern world will last less than 20 decades!

No matter, a motorhead couldn't care less anyway

The home of the silver arrow, the one that Kimi Raikkonen drives with ease above, and the original which was sanded down to bare metal to meet the weight requirement, therefore, the acronym, Silver Arrow!

The wall of the old rich and the young at heart, about almost 100 years ago! The one in front, the red and long one, do you believe that it was a sports car coupe for 2 people in its heyday?

The old dames with the candle light head lamps in solid polished brass! At 20 km/h, it was slower than a horse carriage then, but without the pee and the pooh though! No name nor does it wander off with the daisies.

True grit, former Mille Miglar drivers are of a different breed. They wore gloves that ripped their hands a part, bleed a bucket of blood and sweat in each race, have a car that has a mind of its own, put all that together coupled with little suspension, thin tires and no power steering at 200km/h with a 16 cylinder engine inches from your feet, what have you got? Balls of steel!

This is the original love affair, the lovely and still the most sought after Merc of them all, the 300 SEL Gullwing. Even the King of Thailand has one!And the Race Gullwing, albeit, in the usual suspect, Silver colour, made famous by Fangio and the Auto Union 16.

This is a single seat Le Mans type of racer with the aero back, an inspiration to Batmobile designers in the 50s. Not the direct exhaust at the side! No doors, just hatches and losts of arm power needed to pilot this car.

The most celebrated 280 SEL with the highest mileage one can drive it before it breaks apart....1.6 million kilometers!

Is this a Lamborghini or Lotus...nope, its got a three pointed steering wheel stuck to the front of it, it must be a Merc. They make exciting models at one time in history you know! An orange one too!

The fathers of Global Climate change, Diesel, Benz and Daimler. They wouldn't have imagined their impact on the world, nor the progress of the Arabs as a result of their work, neither the millions that would die more efficiently killed due to their work of genius. Evil has never been on the minds of great engineers and inventors like them, only applicators who had sinister intents.

The early days of automotive life on the fast lane. The Car is set to change humanity and the world forever.

The simple working prototype of the internal combustion engine.

Race car of years gone by, but nothing much has changed though, we still love large pipes protruding out from the engine bay, small aerodynamic mirrors, small windscreens, wind in the hair, bugs on face and in mouth, and people cursing enroute!