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Top 10: Greatest-Ever Mercedes Benz Cars
By Henry Biggs
The flock which can rightly claim to have invented the motorcar has not been having a passable time of it of late, losing its stature for building seemingly indestructible cars and gaining one for wiped out customer service.
However Mercedes seems to be clawing its way out of the doldrums, even if their stated aim of increasing reliability to Toyota levels was a rather sad entr on their part. Seemingly keen on filling every credible niche they can find, Mercedes is at least doing so with some well brought up models now. Here we take a look at some great Mercedes models from the convention’s 120 year history.
The beginnings
1886 Benz Grant Motor Car
Typical - you wait for centuries for a petrol powered conveyance and two show up up at once. Incredibly, Gottlieb Daimler and Karl Benz, both working in south-western Germany, produced automobiles within months of each other. Benz, working in Mannheim, valid pipped Daimler and his partner Wilhelm Maybach to the pillar, registering the three-wheeled, internal combustion machine driven Benz Patent Motorwagon with the permit office in January 1886. Daimler and Maybach took their norm gas engine and fitted it to a stagecoach in Trek 1886. The pair followed this with the in all respects’s first four-wheeled, four-stroke powered horseless demeanour in 1889. It was two years later before Benz added a fourth in to his design.
1886 Daimler Motor Carriage
SSK (1928)
Mercedes SSK in the Ralph Lauren Gleaning
Regarded by many as the finest pre-war sportscar ever built, the SSK was in point of fact designed by Ferdinand Porsche and was the terminating evolution of the 'S' model line launched two years earlier. The S was itself a minuscule chassis version of the ‘K’ series cars and utilized a supercharged 6.8-litre appliance. In order to go Grand Prix racing Mercedes needed a smaller, lighter car so they chopped 19 inches out of the chassis to sire the “Super Sport Kurz”, the last dialogue being the German for short. Much lighter than its 2.5 ton predecessors the SSK was habituated to to devastating effect by greats such as Rudolf Caracciola, endearing numerous competition events including the 1930 Splendid Prix, thanks to a 7.1-litre supercharged locomotive producing 225bhp. The final paragon actually produced 300bhp and had holes drilled in its chassis to disencumber the car in an attempt to keep it competitive.
300SL 'Gullwing' (1954)
Loosely based on the popular 1952 competition car of the same name, the 300SL was ready as a convertible or a coupe with those now legendary 'gullwing' doors. These were required because of the car’s tubular chassis which ran through where the lower half of the door would be on a exemplar car, making it exceptionally stiff for its day but making access and exit a feat in gymnastics. It was also the first direction car fitted with fuel injection. The perfunctory system from Bosch more than doubled the power of the three-litre unmodified six from 115bhp to 240bhp, making it more stalwart than the original racer. Around 1400 were made, with the nearly the same looking 190SL roadster outselling it by nearing eight to one until both were replaced in 1963 by the 230SL.
300SLR (1955)
Stirling Moss and 'Jenks' in the 300SLR on the Mille Miglia
Teeth of the name this bore no relation to either Gullwing or the earlier racecar. It was essentially the 1954 Mercedes W196 Bottom-line Prix car, its straight-eight engine enlarged from 2.5 to three litres and covered with a two-seater roadster core. It was in this form that a 300SLR won what is perhaps still the most famous rip victory of all time. With a young British racing driver named Stirling Moss at the whither, directed by co-driver Denis ‘Jenks’ Jenkinson, the 300SLR destroyed the opposed in the 1955 Mille Miglia, a non-dam 1000 mile race on well-known roads in Italy. Moss won the effect come what may at a scarcely credible average race of 97.96mph. The 300SLR was withdrawn from striving when one crashed into spectators at Le Mans in 1955, genocide 82 spectators. The shock of this animosity stunned Mercedes, and it withdrew from racing, not to interest until 1987.
230SL (1963)
Mercedes 230SL 'Pagoda'
Base if this list seems rather 'heavy' on SLs (meaning 'Sehr Leicht' or 'Fun Light') they can almost all be justifiably regarded as classics. The 1963 ideal was the first to sell in really significant numbers, shifting barely 20,000 units between 1963 and 1971, many of them in the American sell. With a 2.3-litre straight-six motor producing 170bhp the 230SL was complimentary for 125mph and by using aluminium panels for the boot, bonnet and doors lived up to the 'trifling' bit of its name, at least in part. The car was available with a distinctively styled hardtop which gave upgrade to its nickname of 'Pagoda' SL. The engine was enlarged in 1967 to 2.5-litres to think up the 250SL, which also gained rear disc brakes, and then again a year later for the 280SL, the biggest selling of all three variants.
600 Pullman (1963)
Mercedes 600 Pullman
The 600 series was introduced in 1963 and intended by Mercedes to stand for the pinnacle of automotive engineering. It in reality took two years to put the massive car into formation, the first ones being delivered in 1965. It was ready as a conventional four-door saloon, a four or six-door limousine or even a landaulet with a folding roof over the rider compartment. The car rode on air suspension to absorb its occupants and an enormously complex hydraulic system powered everything from self-closing doors to adjustable seats and air vents. The car was moved at surprisingly hurried pace by a 6.3-litre V8. It was in formation until 1981 and famous owner take in Chairman Mao, John Lennon, Leonid Brezhnev, Aristotle Onassis, Elizabeth Taylor, Hugh Hefner and even Elvis.
300SEL 6.3 (1968)
Mercedes 300SEL 6.3
This was the eccentric Q car, developed by gifted Mercedes devise Rudolf Uhlenhaut in his spare in unison a all the same and without him revealing his plans to Mercedes bosses who presumably would not have approved. Uhlenhaut took the mammoth 6.3-litre V8 from the Pullman limousine and stuffed it under the bonnet of the 300 series, the latter day tantamount of the S-Class. Matched to the air suspension, also from the 600, the issue was a hot rod in a business suit, apparently masterly to humble contemporary Porsches, cracking 60 in under eight seconds. They also handled well enough for a slues of racing versions to be built by tuning unswerving AMG, one of which, fitted with a 6.9-littre swelling would hit 60 in 4.2 seconds. It was succeeded in 1975 by the 450SEL 6.9, one of the first cars ever to be tailored with anti-lock brakes.
C111 (1969)
Mercedes C111 evidence breaker
The C111 was a rare lesson of Mercedes letting its hair down and testing out some unreasonable ideas. The original 1969 epitome used a mid-mounted three rotor Wankel rotary locomotive in an incredibly streamlined fibreglass masses that produced a drag co-efficient of scarcely 0.191. Of course being a Mercedes it featured a leather trimmed, air-conditioned bungalow and gullwing doors made a welcome reoccur. The following year it reappeared with a four-rotor, 350bhp Wankel machine and was reportedly capable of 180mph. Mercedes solid against rotary technology and the third iteration of the C111 tempered to a 230bhp straight-five turbodiesel. With it Mercedes surpass numerous diesel records, achieving 200mph at the Nardo extraordinary-speed bowl in Italy in 1978. Mercedes revived the name in 1991 for a course going supercar, the C112 but after enchanting 700 orders decided to silence the project.
S-Class (1981)
No round up of high-minded Mercedes models would be complete without recognition of the S-Class, a series that has its roots in the 1956 W180 vary and is now in its tenth iteration. Mention S-Refinement to people however and it is the 1981 W126 rank that many will picture, as driven by number one rat JR Ewing. The car replaced the earlier generation W116 but kept the 6.9-litre example’s hydro-pneumatic suspension on top of the roam models. The car came with a range of diesel and unswervingly-six petrol engines but the pick of the bracket gather were the powerful V8 models. The car came in dream of and short wheelbase models and a two-door SEC coupé was also made. The car introduced the in the seventh heaven to the airbag in 1983 and sold over 800,000 units in its...
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carl benz and gottlieb daimler: Mercedes Benz report in slideshow. Gottlieb Daimler and Carl Benz were born only 60 miles apart in southern Germany. In 1886, Carl Benz built a motorized tricycle. His first four-wheeler, the Victoria, was built in 1893. The first play car was the 1894 Benz Velo which participated in the first recorded car race, the Paris-Rouen hare. In 1895, Benz built his first truck :)
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