CMC's newest 2026 novelties: 500K Spezial Roadster, 300SLR Coupé and Ferrari 250 LM
New since the anniversary catalogue
Our June report on CMC's 30th-anniversary catalogue covered the 300 SL road car, the Alfa Romeo P3 and the Ferrari 375. Since then, CMC has quietly filled out the rest of the 2026 lineup — and two of the additions deserve their own spotlight: a Mercedes-Benz 500K Spezial Roadster and a 300SLR Uhlenhaut Coupé. Alongside them, a nine-variant Ferrari 250 LM series and new Maserati pieces round out one of CMC's busiest years yet.
Mercedes-Benz 500K Spezial Roadster: pre-war luxury in five liveries
The 500K Spezial Roadster arrives in five configurations — blue, red, white, black and a clear-coat "naked metal" finish that shows off CMC's body-in-white construction underneath. Unveiled in the 1930s as Mercedes-Benz's flagship road car, the 500K sat alongside the factory's Grand Prix program as the luxury counterpart to cars like the W125 — built by the same Sindelfingen craftsmen, in the same golden age of German engineering. Our own CMC W125 #12, Rudolf Caracciola's 1937 championship car, is the racing half of that same story — the car that shared a factory floor with the 500K road cars, if not a showroom.
300SLR Uhlenhaut Coupé: the racer's road-going twin
The bigger story for Silver Arrow collectors is the A-038 Mercedes-Benz 300SLR Uhlenhaut Coupé, joining CMC's premium Model Art series. The 300SLR shares its straight-eight engine, desmodromic valve train and spaceframe chassis with the W196 Grand Prix car that carried Juan Manuel Fangio to two world titles in 1954 and 1955 — the Uhlenhaut Coupé is, in effect, the W196's closed-roof sibling, built as a road-legal showcase for the technology. We carry the racing original: our CMC W196 Monoposto, hand-assembled from more than 180 parts, is the open-wheel half of the same engineering family the Uhlenhaut Coupé now brings to the road.
Ferrari 250 LM and the Maserati additions
Away from Stuttgart, CMC has announced a nine-variant Ferrari 250 LM series, with individual runs capped at 1,500 pieces or fewer and prices starting from roughly €500. On the Italian side, a Maserati 375 MM Spider in red racing livery and a strictly limited Birdcage Cut-Out Edition — just 100 pieces worldwide, showing the tubular spaceframe beneath the body — complete the picture. It is a reminder that CMC's anniversary year is not a one-catalogue event: new references keep arriving, and each one narrows the field for whatever came before it. The 250 LM is no arbitrary choice for a reissue, either: a works-entered example, run under a privateer's colours, won the 24 Hours of Le Mans outright in 1965 — the last overall Le Mans win for Ferrari until the 499P's victory in 2023. For collectors with a soft spot for racing history, that pedigree makes the series especially compelling.
What it means for collectors
None of this year's novelties are in Swiss shops at anything close to bargain prices — premium CMC stays premium, and limited runs sell out. For collectors here in Switzerland, the more relevant question is usually the same one we raised in June: as CMC's current catalogue prices climb, well-documented earlier references become the more interesting buy. A 500K or 300SLR bought new today sits at four figures before shipping; a carefully graded Silver Arrow from an earlier production run, sourced and inspected locally, is often the more accessible way into the same era. Anyone eyeing a specific 250 LM or 500K configuration should also plan for a wait: CMC often confirms delivery dates only a few weeks before shipping, and heavily limited variants like the Birdcage Cut-Out Edition tend to be spoken for before they officially go on sale.
Our take
CMC's 2026 is turning out to be one of its most ambitious years — not just an anniversary catalogue, but a genuine expansion across three brands. We'll keep tracking what lands and what it means for the secondary market. In the meantime, the Silver Arrows and pre-war classics already sourced, graded and ready to ship are in our CMC collection.