When did Peter Sutton build the Mercedes 280E?
Finished in a rare shade of Forest Green, Peter Sutton’s 280E has a full leather interior and electric windows. It’s from 1984, by which time the playing field had levelled out slightly in Mercedes’ favour: at £14,000 the basic 280E was now competitively pitched against the Jaguar XJ 3.4, BMW 528i and Peugeot 604 at £12-13,000.
What kind of car was the Mercedes 280E?
In fact, the 280E was neither the fastest nor the most refined of its multi-cylinder rivals, a list that included the Peugeot 604, BMW 528 and Leyland’s ‘saviour’ car, the 122mph Rover 3500, which at £4750 was hard to ignore. Tellingly, of these mid-’70s car makers, only Mercedes was confident enough to fit an odometer that ran to 999,999 miles.
What was the top speed of the Mercedes 300E?
The 300E had a solid 140 mph (225 km/h) top speed, which made it the fastest regular production four-door sedan in the world at the time (unless someone can prove me otherwise). And it did that with utter composure; 140 had never seemed so relatively uneventful.
What kind of car was the Mercedes 190?
Two years later, Mercedes unveiled the compact 190 (W201), its first step into the compact market in modern times. This was a huge new step for a conservative company whose products had always been in the upper-middle to premium class. The 190 was a completely new car in every way, except perhaps the transmission.
In fact, the 280E was neither the fastest nor the most refined of its multi-cylinder rivals, a list that included the Peugeot 604, BMW 528 and Leyland’s ‘saviour’ car, the 122mph Rover 3500, which at £4750 was hard to ignore. Tellingly, of these mid-’70s car makers, only Mercedes was confident enough to fit an odometer that ran to 999,999 miles.
Finished in a rare shade of Forest Green, Peter Sutton’s 280E has a full leather interior and electric windows. It’s from 1984, by which time the playing field had levelled out slightly in Mercedes’ favour: at £14,000 the basic 280E was now competitively pitched against the Jaguar XJ 3.4, BMW 528i and Peugeot 604 at £12-13,000.
Is the Mercedes-Benz 280s a neutral car?
Take the 280S on a long sweeping road, control the transmission via the shift gate, and it will negotiate a corner with swan-like grace. With its near-50/50 weight distribution, well thought out suspension tuning and a stiff chassis, the 280S is as neutral as Switzerland.
Which is the greatest Mercedes Benz of all time?
David E. Davis, Jr. called the 6.9 “the greatest Mercedes-Benz ever built,” in a Car and Driver review. When new, marked-up prices of the 6.9 at the dealers often came close to matching the $40,000-plus invoices of some Rolls-Royces and Bentleys—an incredible sum of money then and even now (about $170,000 in today’s dollars).