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.

One rarely discussed element of the W116’s impact was Mercedes-Benz’s embrace of product placement marketing at the time. Working with the Los Angeles firm Vista Group (which also put Burt ...

Mercedes-Benz S-Class W116. This 44,000-mile 350SE gave me a flavor of how impressive the W116 was back in the day. Contemporary XJ Jaguars may have been more raffishly sporty, and you could get ...

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.

The W116 (1972–1980) wasn't the first car with four-wheel anti-lock brakes.Mercedes showed a system in 1970, but the 1971 Chrysler Imperial and its Sure-Brake system beat Mercedes to production ...

Mercedes-Benz had three different platforms that utilized this engine base: Namely the 1978-1980 W116, 1981-1985 W126 S-Class sedans, as well as some of the 1978-1986 W123-platform cars. 1978-1980 ...

The Mercedes-Benz W116 S-Class, sold for the 1973 through 1980 model years, has a reputation as one of the most long-lived motor vehicles ever built, and the. Skip to main content.

1987 Mercedes-Benz 560SEL Review: An All-Time Classic Daily Driver. Yes, a vintage Merc can be a reliable, ... eventually led me to a ’75 W116 280S — which I kept going on a poor college budget — and ...

Mercedes-Benz is celebrating an important anniversary for the W123 ... of the well-regarded W114/W115 family of smallish sedans that preceded it combined with styling cues of the larger W116 sedan.

Street-Spotted: Mercedes-Benz 280 But wait, Mercedes wasn't done selling the diesel powerplant. "Seldom, if ever, has so much performance been generated by an engine of such inherent efficiency.