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Mercedes SSK Silver & Red Bburago 1:18

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Mercedes SSK Silver & Red Bburago 1:18 3009-M2 Diecast
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Bburago's 1:18 diecast Mercedes SSK wears a silver and red livery on the supercharged 1928 sports car engineered under Ferdinand Porsche's direction at Mercedes-Benz. Zinc-alloy construction and opening features bring pre-war motoring detail to an accessible vintage-classics shelf.
Mercedes SSK Silver & Red Bburago 1:18
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Specifications
Brand
Mercedes
Manufacturer
Bburago
Scale
1:18
Material
Diecast
Model Condition
Used Model
SKU
3009-M2
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About the Mercedes SSK Silver & Red Bburago 1:18

TL;DR: Bburago's 1:18 diecast Mercedes SSK wears a silver and red livery on the supercharged sports car that Ferdinand Porsche helped engineer at Mercedes-Benz in 1928. Zinc-alloy construction and opening doors bring the era's dominant European sports-racing chassis to an accessible pre-war diecast.

Before he founded his own company, Ferdinand Porsche led engineering at Mercedes-Benz, and the supercharged SSK stands among his most competitive designs from that period, dominating European sports-car racing in the late 1920s.

Bburago's Diecast Take on a Supercharged Pre-War Chassis

This SSK comes in a silver-and-red two-tone finish, applied over Bburago's diecast body with the even coverage typical of the brand's mass-market vintage line. The long hood and exposed side-mounted exhaust pipes, both hallmarks of the SSK's actual proportions, are captured in the tooling rather than simplified for a generic vintage silhouette, and the doors open on functional hinges to reveal a basic cockpit with the era-appropriate exposed gauges and slim bench seating the original car used. Zinc-alloy construction gives the model real heft, appropriate for a chassis that, in period, carried a genuinely massive supercharged inline-six engine. Bburago's vintage-classics range has covered numerous pre-war subjects over the years, and the SSK's dramatic proportions, long and low with minimal bodywork covering the mechanical components, make it one of the more visually striking entries in that catalogue.

The SSK's Place in Pre-War European Racing

Mercedes-Benz built the SSK as a shortened, more agile evolution of its earlier S-series sports cars, and Ferdinand Porsche's engineering work on the supercharged six-cylinder engine gave it a genuine performance advantage against rival manufacturers of the era. Drivers including Rudolf Caracciola campaigned SSK-based cars to strong results across European hillclimbs and circuit races in the late 1920s and early 1930s, building the model's reputation as one of the dominant sports-racing chassis of its time. That racing pedigree sets the SSK apart from many other pre-war road cars: it wasn't simply a wealthy owner's grand touring car but a genuine competition platform that happened to be sold to the public. For collectors building a pre-war shelf, the SSK represents that era's peak of supercharged performance engineering.

Paired with the red-and-black SSK variant, this silver-and-red car builds a small two-tone display of Mercedes' pre-war flagship. Bburago's diecast pricing makes assembling that pairing straightforward, and the SSK's dramatic scale gives any vintage shelf real visual anchor alongside smaller, later classics.

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