One of Mercedes’ first cars just sold for $12M at auction

A car that helped lay the groundwork for the company that we know today as Mercedes-Benz just sold at auction for $12,105,000. That’s among the highest prices ever paid for a car built before 1930. The car was a 1904 Mercedes-Simplex 60 HP similar to the one shown here, and was sold at a Gooding & Company auction coinciding with this past…