The Mercedes-Benz C111 is a tawny spaceship, a wedge-shaped dream carved from fiberglass and ambition. With its shimmering gull-wing doors and slippery silhouette, it exists in the liquidity of time—a 1970s vision of a future that never quite arrived. Originally a laboratory for the high-revving Wankel engine, this orange mirage transitioned from rotary whispers to record-breaking diesel roars at the Nardò Ring. It remains an evocative masterpiece of "what could have been," blending advanced aerodynamics with a luxurious soul, forever rocketing between nostalgia and the avant-garde.