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 ...

Class model that deserves to be held aloft as one of the best, if not the best, versions—the W116 450SEL 6.9, which debuted ...

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 was produced by Mercedes between 1972 and 1980 at its Sindelfingen factory in Germany, which has about 100 years of history building cars for Mercedes-Benz. Back in the 1970s, Mercedes ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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.

Mercedes-Benz has been a dominant German automaker for nearly a decade. Here is the history of some of the most iconic vehicles in its lineup. ... It all started with the first S-Class W116, ...