S1 Ep212: Mercedes Pt IV: AMG, the Present, and the Future
Past Gas
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4.9 • 7.2K Ratings
🗓️ 4 December 2023
⏱️ 64 minutes
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Summary
In its first two decades, AMG had brought racing and performance prestige to Mercedes. But in 1999, co-founder Hans-Werner Aufrecht was ready to sell a majority stake of AMG to Mercedes, effectively handing over control of the company. Today, on the final episode of Past Gas’s History of Mercedes: How did Aufrecht and co-founder Erhard Melcher form their tuning house? How did Mercedes make a triumphant return to racing? And how is Mercedes-Benz continuing to shape our world and the future of the automobile?
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| 1:27.9 | On January 1st, 1999, Hans Verner Alfresh was preparing to meet with Mercedes executives in Paris. 32 years earlier he had left Mercedes alongside his friend |
| 1:33.2 | Erhard Melker to establish a motorsports engineering company |
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