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The Mercedes-Benz Museum in Stuttgart Inaugurates "The Time Machine"

5 April 20262 min read7 images

Drive four legendary Mercedes race cars across a century of motorsport history using Roarington simulators at the Mercedes-Benz Museum.

The Mercedes-Benz Museum in Stuttgart Inaugurates "The Time Machine"
Photo credit: Mercedes-Benz

What films and books have long imagined — the possibility of moving through time — is today, at the Mercedes-Benz Museum in Stuttgart, a reality. Within the span of a single hour, one can drive four authentic masterpieces that until now have stood magnificent and silent on the spectacular banked curve of the Silver Arrows — Races & Records gallery, traversing the entire history of the racing automobile. A genuine experience worthy of a time machine.

How? It is at once simpler and more thrilling than you might expect: all it takes is sitting behind the wheel of one of the Roarington simulators located in the Classic Insel at level 0 and driving, in sequence, the first four available cars belonging to entirely different eras. The simulator does not merely adapt to the specific characteristics of each Digital Twin of the original cars — it allows you to feel their real behaviour, returning authentic sensations of acceleration, braking, weight transfer, and steering response.

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The Roarington Digital Twins are realistic digital replicas of classic cars — such as the 1902 Mercedes-Simplex 40 PS — faithful both in appearance and in driving behaviour.

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