[Shown at Atrium]
At the beginning of 1911, Julius Ganss, working for Benz, designed a car which could reach a speed of over 200 km/h. Providing the thrust to match the rhetoric was the 150-hp engine with a displacement of 21.5 litres. The first two 200HP Blitzen Benzs ended up in America and Buick works driver Bob Burman, lined up in one at Daytona Beach on April 23, 1911 for high-speed trials. Tapping the car's full potential, he squeezed out an average 228.1km/h over the kilometre with flying start - a new land-speed record which was to remain unbroken until l919. At the time, this made the Benz twice as fast as an aircraft, whilst the rail speed record (1903: 210km/h) was also blasted out of sight.