Mercedes’ S-Class has been a byword for excellence since the first one officially debuted with the W116 chassis way back in 1972. They’ve regularly been the first cars on the market to debut ...

The original Mercedes-Benz S-Class is a real number generator. It ended up being offered in nine different model forms, sold 473,035 units in its eight-year lifetime, and took six years to develop ...

Mercedes-Benz S-Class W116. This 44,000-mile 350SE gave me a flavor of how impressive the W116 was back in the day. ... And although the chassis fundamentals were sound, ...

Kwiek Classics is putting AMG's M113 and M156 engines and manual transmissions in the brand's iconic sedans and roadsters of ...

In many minds, earlier big Mercedes sedans are more visually appealing and later ones, like the W126 models of 1981, have developed massive reputations that exceed that of the W116. But it’s the ...

The W116-generation Mercedes-Benz from the 1970s was the first to be known as the S-class. We drove a 1979 version. Read more and see pictures at Car and Driver.

Mercedes-Benz has been offering diesel engines as an option on its cars since it ... The 3.0-liter five-cylinder turbodiesel introduced in the W116 chassis-based 1979 300SD—the world’s first ...

In Mercedes' case, it's that best Bond, Sean Connery once owned a Mercedes W116 300SD, a car he bought new in the U.S. in 1978 and then drove for a decade before handing it off to his brother, Neil.

The W116 was the first Mercedes-Benz to get the official S-Class designation, and it became one of the premier status symbols of the Malaise Era American highway as the decade of the 1970s progressed.