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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?

Image credit:
Mercedes-Benz AMG 300 SEL 1971 (Red Pig) by Jiří Sedláček
Mercedes CLK GTR Donnington 1997 BY Tony Harrison from Farnborough, UK
Mercedes CLK GTR by pilot_micha

0:00 Intro
0:49 Cinematic intro
2:52 Mercedes pt 4: AMG, the Present, and the Future
59:05 Listener mail / Outro

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