Author Description

Peter Vann's exceptional photos take up 20 angles on Mercedes history: people, triumphs, fates--with these wonderful cars as an ever-recurring theme. The beauty and tensions of the automotive century seen through the lens of one of Europe's outstanding photographers. An intriguing sequence of classic icons and unclassical motifs (who writes this stuff, anyway?), stories about technology and sport, and about the mad passion which makes it all come alive. OK, here's what's really in it: Fangio, 1888 Daimler motorboat, Blitzen Benz, W25 streamliner, 1931 Mannheim 370S Cabriolet, 1935 150 Sport Roadster, 1993 Klausen Pass memorial race, 1936 540K, 1934 500K, 1932 770 Grosser, Jan Melin, 1937 W125 GP car, 1939 W165 GP car, 1939 W154 GP car, 1952 Carrera Panamericana, 1955 Mille Miglia, 1950 170S Cabriolet, Ralph Lauren, Bela Barenyi, 1994 Mille Miglia, 1989 Sauber-Mercedes C9, 1994 DTM car, and more.