Other Car Companies
Now a traditional color for road-cars in reference to the Silver Arrows, most German car companies have a shade of silver in their catalogues conforming to Silberpfeil-Grau, or Silver Arrow Grey.
However, the Audi and Mercedes-Benz are not the only ones who dye their cars in a silver color. Porsche has also inherited the tradition of silver arrows. But the company BMW still paints its cars in the traditional white color.
At the 1999 Le Mans 24 Hours, a total of seven Silver Arrows were entered in the Le Mans Prototype class:
- three infamous Mercedes-Benz CLR
- two British-built LM-GT1 Audi R8C
- two Joest Racing LMP Audi R8R that scored third and fourth.
In 2010, Ross Brawn (of Formula One's Mercedes GP) introduced the new cars for that season as the new Silver Arrows, with Germans Nico Rosberg and 7 time world champion Michael Schumacher driving.
In 2012, Nico Rosberg drove the W03 - 2012's Silver Arrow - to Mercedes' first victory in Formula One since 1955.
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