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Donnerstag, 2.September 2010s a young designer Carl Benz went through years of mixed fortune. He established his first company with the talented mechanical engineer August Ritter in Mannheim in 1871. The workshop had the typical Mannheim address T 6, 11.
But Ritter proved to be a less than reliable partner, and only with financial assistance from his [...]
Automobile with two wheels: The route to the riding car
Dienstag, 31.August 2010Gottlieb Daimler and his ingenious colleague Wilhelm Maybach moved to Cannstatt near Stuttgart in 1882. Differences between the fifty-year-old Nikolaus August Otto and Daimler, two years his junior, had led to the latter’s departure from the Gasmotorenfabrik Deutz on the outskirts of Cologne. Now a wealthy man Daimler, could afford to make himself independent.
For 75,000 [...]
Automobile with two wheels: on 29 August 1885 Gottlieb Daimler filed a patent for his “riding car”
Sonntag, 29.August 2010The birth of a car as we know it today took place in 1886. Independently of one another, the two founding fathers of the company now known as Daimler AG, Carl Benz and Gottlieb Daimler, invented a vehicle with internal combustion engine – Benz his three-wheeled Patent Motor Car, Daimler the four-wheeled Motor Carriage.
However, [...]
C 215 series (1999 to 2006) – World premiere of Active Body Control (ABC)
Donnerstag, 5.August 2010At the Geneva Motor Show in March 1999, the Mercedes-Benz C 215 series – beginning with the CL 500 – celebrated its world premiere. Sales in Europe and Japan started in the fall of 1999. In early 2000, the CL 600 with twelve-cylinder engine joined the line-up.
“When you are back on the ground after a [...]
C 140 series (1992 to 1998) – Electronic Stability Programme ESP makes debut in the Coupé
Samstag, 31.Juli 2010The world premiere of the SEC Coupés from the C 140 series was staged at the North American International Auto Show in Detroit in January 1992; the European premiere followed two months later at the Geneva Motor Show.
The brochure of 1992 had this to say: “The new SEC Coupés are under the obligation of [...]
C 126 series (1981 to 1991) – Closely related to the S-Class Saloons (126 series)
Donnerstag, 29.Juli 2010“By tradition, Mercedes-Benz has always been building a special type of car which is distinguished from other models series by its high level of individuality: the Coupé.” These were the introductory words in the brand’s brochure about the Coupés from the C 126 series. “The Mercedes Coupé embodies the rare type of a refined and [...]
The History of AMG – More than four decades of high-performance Mercedes-Benz Cars
Mittwoch, 28.Juli 2010From its beginnings more than 40 years ago as an independent racing and tuning firm of Mercedes cars, Mercedes-AMG has grown into a supplier of exclusive high-performance cars, now with some 600 employees, an extensive model range and customers around the world. An integral part of the Mercedes-Benz organization, Mercedes-AMG has become synonymous with [...]
C 107 series (1971 to 1981) – Technical basis is the SL series R 107
Dienstag, 27.Juli 2010When the new touring sports car of the R 107 series was presented in April 1971, the issue of whether to a new large Coupé should be developed at Mercedes-Benz still remained unanswered. Discussion centred on whether one should additionally, and in the near future, design a four-seater sports coupé based on the R 107 [...]
W 111/W 112 series (1961 to 1971) – A large four-seater Coupé in the S-Class format
Sonntag, 25.Juli 2010Within the framework of the inauguration of the Daimler-Benz Museum in Untertürkheim on February 24, 1961, the new Mercedes-Benz 220 SEb Coupé was launched. The elegant and representative new design was the successor to the 128-series Coupé production of which had been discontinued as early as October 1960. In terms of its engineering and styling, [...]
W 180/W 128 series (1956 to 1960) – A Coupé to go with the Saloons of the “Ponton” series
Freitag, 23.Juli 2010The Mercedes-Benz 220 S Coupé made its debut three months after the launch of the 220 S Cabriolet, corresponding to the open-top version with the exception of featuring a solid roof. Both cars were based on the 220 S Saloon launched in March as the successor to the 220a.
It was from the Saloon that [...]
W 187 series (1953 to 1955) – Basis provided by the Mercedes-Benz 220 Cabriolet A
Mittwoch, 21.Juli 2010The Mercedes-Benz 220 Coupé belonged to the W 187 series which Daimler-Benz presented at the Frankfurt International Motor Show in April 1951 together with the 300 (W 188 series) – initially with a Saloon body.
The 220 was largely based on the 170 S but had a newly developed six-cylinder engine with overhead camshaft, which [...]
W 188 series (1952 to 1958) – A representative car with a sporty touch
Montag, 19.Juli 2010In October 1951, Daimler-Benz launched the Mercedes-Benz 300 S at the Paris Motor Show – one month before production of the 300 Saloon (W 186) began. The company thus had two top-of-the-range models in its portfolio.
The 300 S was positioned as a particular representative car with a sporty touch – meeting the highest demands [...]
Coupes by Mercedes-Benz – Individual and stylish
Donnerstag, 15.Juli 2010The coupé is an exclusive body design. This was true even in the days of the horse-drawn carriage, when the coupé – presumably so-called because it resembled a four-seater carriage with its front end cut-off (French: “coupé”) – offered two seats in the comfort of the cab with the coachman seated up front on the [...]
Coupes by Mercedes-Benz – The “Sindelfingen body” prevails
Dienstag, 13.Juli 2010Throughout the 1920s and 30s, Mercedes-Benz offered a variety of vehicle models where the designation primarily characterized chassis and engine; for these a variety of body variants were then available ex factory, often with up to ten or more different designs. At the same time, it was the age of the coachbuilder in automotive design, [...]
Review: The C 216 series (from 2006)
Montag, 12.Juli 2010In the fall of 2006 Mercedes-Benz brought the large Coupé of the C 216 series. The two-door model combined peerless exclusivity and charismatic design with the sort of cutting-edge technology that no other manufacturer worldwide can match.
The luxury Coupé raised the bar in terms of vehicle safety with the PRE-SAFE® brakes: the unique system [...]
Compact, mid-sized or luxury class – Coupés in every class
Sonntag, 11.Juli 2010After the Second World War the coupé became a permanent feature in particular of the Mercedes-Benz mid-series, as well as of its premium-class models. The forerunners of the CL-Class include vehicles such as the 300 S coupé (W 188, 1952 to 1955) and the coupés of the 180 and 128 “three-box body” series, whose self-supporting [...]
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