‘Mercedes? Never heard of them,’ said absolutely no person (living or less so) with even the most vague awareness of the existence of combustion engines. The name is, in many ways, synonymous with the ...

A car that helped lay the groundwork for the company that we know today as Mercedes-Benz just sold at auction for $12,105,000. That's among the highest prices ever paid for a car built before 1930.

I'll admit that even as a car enthusiast, some parts of automotive history escape me. A big gray area for me is pre-WWII stuff; early automotive history. While I'd be hard-pressed to name some of the ...