Mercedes-Benz K

Important Sales Reviewed by SCM Experts

In each month’s issue for the past 38 years, SCM’s analysts have reviewed 5 to 7 significant cars sold at auction, and discuss what options, history, or details made that particular more or less valuable. They give their expert opinion on the market for these cars, and whether this car was well bought or well sold. If you’re thinking of purchasing a Mercedes-Benz K, you’ll likely find these profiles critical in helping you make the right decision. Each of the following is an article from our print magazine on a Mercedes-Benz K sold at auction.

2002 Mercedes-Benz CLK GTR Roadster
By Lowell Paddock · Published January 17, 2024
Mercedes-Benz has left a more significant imprint on motorsports history than any other manufacturer, bar none. So it came as little surprise that after decades of relative abstention from factory-based competition, it became a commanding winner in the German DTM series (Deutsche Tourenwagen Meisterschaft) in the 1990s with its potent C-Class race cars, the 190E […]
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1967 Mercedes-Benz M-SL500 by Mechatronik
By Dean Laumbach · Published December 12, 2023
The absolutely stunning Mercedes-Benz 230 SL “Pagoda” is offered fresh from its transformation into a street-sleeping supercar by Mechatronik. Founded in 1997, Mechatronik GmbH has established itself over the last 25 years as one of the foremost specialists for classic Mercedes-Benz cars. Based in Pleidelsheim, Germany, north of Stuttgart, the company has been renowned for […]
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1934 Mercedes-Benz 500/540K Spezial Roadster
By Ken Gross · Published July 7, 2021
The sensation of the 1934 Berlin Auto Show, Mercedes-Benz’s legendary 500K supercar was the creation of the gifted engineer and former racing driver Dr. Hans Nibel. What set his supercharged Mercedes apart from the big, blown Mercedes of the previous decade was the model’s advanced chassis design, which combined swing axles at the rear with […]
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1937 Mercedes-Benz 540K Sports Roadster
By Pierre Hedary · Published September 24, 2018
A unique automobile, the “Mayfair 540K” Prominently featured in Jan Melin’s Mercedes-Benz: The Supercharged 8-Cylinder Cars of the 1930s Unseen at public concours events for more than a decade Long-term American history
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2013 Mercedes-Benz C63 AMG Black Series
By Philip Richter · Published October 19, 2017
Delivered new to its first and only owner in Bahrain, this particular C63 AMG Black Series was produced for the 2013 model year in Bremen and shipped to Bahrain on October 10, 2012. The car was ordered in a classic and refined color combination of Diamond White Metallic over a black leather and Alcantara interior. […]
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2009 Mercedes-Benz SL65 AMG Black Series
By Pierre Hedary · Published June 16, 2016
The SL65 AMG Black Series was unveiled at Monterey in 2008. The base car SL65 AMG’s 6.0liter V12 engine was retained for the Black Series, but it received larger turbochargers, a bigger intercooler, a new exhaust system and a suitably remapped ECU, resulting in an increase in maximum power to 670 horsepower (approximately a 10% […]
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1998 Mercedes-Benz CLK GTR Roadster
By Jeff Zurschmeide · Published September 19, 2015
A legend in its own — relatively short — lifetime, the car offered here is the first example built of the fabulous Mercedes-Benz CLK GTR roadster, an even more-exclusive, limited-edition, open-topped variant of the already super-exclusive CLK GTR coupe with which Mercedes-Benz had re-entered international sports car racing in 1997. At the time of its […]
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1936 Mercedes-Benz 540K Special Roadster
By Ken Gross · Published November 1, 2012
Baroness Gisela von Krieger, the only daughter of an aristocratic German family, was renowned for her exquisite beauty, glamorous lifestyle and impeccable fashion sense. After moving to Paris in 1933, Baroness von Krieger became the darling of European Society. In her 20s, the refined socialite lived at the grandest Parisian hotels, was voted one of […]
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1937 Mercedes-Benz 540K Cabriolet B
By Alex Finigan · Published May 1, 2012
When presented at the Paris Salon in 1936, the Mercedes-Benz 540K was the culmination of two models that served as test beds: the 380 and the 500K. The 380, introduced in 1933, was the work of Hans Nibel, the legendary Mercedes engineer who had developed some formidable competition machines. Thus, the new Mercedes featured a […]
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1937 Mercedes-Benz 540K Special Roadster
By Alex Finigan · Published November 1, 2011
The Mercedes-Benz 540K was one of the most prestigious and most beautiful automobiles of the interwar years. Its combination of power, light weight and sheer beauty made it the master of the road, and it was a testimonial to the astonishing capabilities of the German automotive engineers of the day. It was also breathtakingly expensive, […]
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2005 Mercedes-Benz CLK GTR Coupe, 2006 Mercedes-Benz CLK GTR Roadster
By Thor Thorson · Published February 1, 2010
By the mid 1990s, there was growing interest at Mercedes-Benz and Porsche in returning to an ultra-exclusive form of racing featuring homologated race cars in the tradition of the great Gran Turismo cars of yesteryear. The result was the FIA GT Championship, which commenced in 1997 to great fanfare. Mercedes-Benz and AMG entered the top-level […]
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1937 Mercedes-Benz 540K Cabriolet C
By Alex Finigan · Published January 1, 2010
Together with its predecessor the 500K, the magnificent Mercedes-Benz 540K was arguably the most noteworthy production model offered by the Stuttgart firm during the 1930s. A development of the 500K, whose independently suspended chassis it shared, the 540K was powered by a 5.4-liter supercharged straight-8 engine. The 540K featured the company’s famous Roots-type supercharger system, […]
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1937 Mercedes-Benz 540K Special Roadster
By Alex Finigan · Published December 1, 2007
Upping the ante in the 1930s horsepower race, Mercedes-Benz designers introduced the 8-cylinder 500K (for Kompressor, or supercharger) model in 1934. The supercharger boosted power from 100 hp to 160 hp, and the external exhausts set the style that would carry the company through the rest of the decade. Two years later, the 5.4-liter 540K […]
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1938 M-B 540K Sindelfingen Cabriolet “A”
By Raymond Milo · Published April 1, 2006
Together with its predecessor the 500K, the magnificent Mercedes-Benz 540K was arguably the most noteworthy production model offered by the Stuttgart firm during the 1930s. A development of the 500K, whose independently suspended chassis it shared, the 540K was powered by a 5.4-liter supercharged straight-eight engine. It featured the company’s Roots-type supercharger system, in which […]
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Past Auction Sales – Mercedes-Benz K

Average Mercedes-Benz K Sale Price by Year from SCM’s Platinum Auction Database:

Mercedes-Benz K Sales from SCM’s Platinum Auction Database:

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Condition: 2

Mar 21, 1998

$220,500