Some teenager making up history again.
Benz model designations and badges were, and usually still are, the
engine displacement/equipment and body type -- for instance, 220D
indicated a 2.2L diesel engine, 280SE 4.5 indicated a 2.8L engine (as
original design) in a "heavy" body equipped with fuel injection and a
4.5L V8 instead of the original 2.8L six.
Benz used this designation system along with chassis design numbers
from the origin of the company I think until the 2000s, when some
genius decided people were too stupid to tell what the S was for (or
SL) and started calling the large sedans "S Class", the mid sized ones
"E Class" and the small ones "C Class".
The Ponton was indeed the "fore-runner" of the "E Class", in exactly
the same way the Chevrolet Nova II was the fore-runner of the current
Malibu -- it's the smaller chassis compared to the "big" car.
Remember that kids today are taught that computers have all the
answers and if it's on the internet it has to be true and computers
think for you. Nothing exists from before the smart phone age, after
all.
Peter
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