C111 Pebble Beach Automotive Week 2024: Mercedes-Benz C 111-II with Wankel engine and 100-year-old Mercedes Targa Florio

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• Mercedes-Benz led the Pebble Beach Tour d’Elegance with three vehicles: Targa Florio racing car (1924), C 111-II (1970) and Mercedes-AMG GT 63 4MATIC+ (2024)
• Sandra Button: “Mercedes-Benz Classic brings history back to life.”
• World premieres of the Mercedes-Maybach SL and GT3 Edition 130Y Motorsport
• Indianapolis Motor Speedway Museum to sell its original W 196 R in a few months

Running again: The C 111 super sports car with a rotary piston engine is back on the road. Even at its world premiere in September 1969, it caused a considerable stir. At Pebble Beach Automotive Week from 15 to 18 August, 2024, the experimental vehicle, which was never built in series, once again caused a sensation among the public.

“We are extremely grateful that Mercedes-Benz Classic entered an original C 111 with a Wankel engine in our featured class ‘Wedge Shaped Concept Cars & Prototypes’ of the Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance 2024. It’s really a cornerstone of that type of design. There’s so much history embodied in this car – it’s still just as significant today as it has been in its youth. Mercedes-Benz Classic brings history back to life.”
Sandra Button, Chairman of the Pebble Beach Concours d'Elegance

“The Mercedes Targa-Florio racing car with supercharged engine from 1924 and the Mercedes-Benz C 111-II with Wankel engine from 1970 are examples of how our company continues to push technical boundaries in the areas of engine technology and lightweight construction: Open to new technologies, the engineers exhausted the feasibility of the respective eras in both vehicles. This remains our guideline for all vehicles with the three-pointed star.”
Marcus Breitschwerdt, CEO of Mercedes-Benz Heritage GmbH

A 1970 C 111-II from the company’s own collection led the Pebble Beach Tour d’Elegance on 15 August, together with the 100-year-old Mercedes 2-litre Targa Florio racing car and a Mercedes-AMG GT 63 4MATIC+ (combined energy consumption: 14.1 l/100 km | CO₂ emissions combined: 319 g/km | CO₂ class: G*). For this purpose, the experts at Mercedes-Benz Classic had resurrected the original, well-preserved four-rotor Wankel engine of the C 111-II. The super sports car brilliantly completed the 100-kilometre route on Highway 1 to Big Sur and back.

At the prestigious Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance on Sunday, 18 August, the sports coupé was in the special class “Wedge Shaped Concept Cars & Prototypes” – outside the classification.

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