Some guy over at BenzWorld is claiming that the E class started way back with
Pontons.
I go and look it up, and there are articles talking about the same.
Since when was the E class the son of Pontons?
Befuddled Dan
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On Jul 5, 2013 4:32 AM, Dan Penoff d...@penoff.com wrote:
Some guy over at BenzWorld is
claiming that the E class started way
back with Pontons.
I go and look it up, and there are
articles talking about the same.
Since when was the E class
the son of Pontons?
Oceania has always been
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
Apparently there is a display of the E class cars at the factory that shows
this progression.
??
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On Jul 5, 2013, at 9:13 AM, Peter Frederick psf...@earthlink.net wrote:
Some teenager making up history again.
Benz model designations and badges were, and usually still
This article was also quoted:
http://www.edmunds.com/mercedes-benz/e-class/history.html
Dan
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On Jul 5, 2013, at 9:53 AM, Dan Penoff d...@penoff.com wrote:
Apparently there is a display of the E class cars at the factory that shows
this progression.
??
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Nothing remarkable about making a mid-sized car, everyone did it
starting in the early 50's.
Some marketing teenager making up history after the fact -- Benz has
made mid-sized cars since the Ponton, sure, but there isn't much
difference in design between the mid-sized and large (or small)
On Fri, Jul 5, 2013 at 6:13 AM, Peter Frederick psf...@earthlink.netwrote:
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
Until the teenagers took over the marketing dep't you had
to _know_ the model line to know what was what. Not
exactly an onerous task, but there you go. Good thing
they fixed that for us.
Prior to the introduction of that wretched 'class' system,
that came in with price-point design, they only
Dan wrote:
Apparently there is a display of the E class cars at the
factory that shows this progression.
Is this the same factory that screwed up the labels and
designation? So why would you trust the signs at the factory
museum?
-- Philip
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Midsize models can be traced farther back, but I think it would be
fair to say the Pontons (like that of the W110 W111/W112 Fintail
sedans), were forerunners of both the current E S Class.
On 7/5/2013 7:32 AM, Dan Penoff wrote:
Some guy over at BenzWorld is claiming that the E class started
Could be both
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Not so, 93/94 marked the end of carburetted Merc engines.
Hence no need to distinguish between injected and non injected.
Far as lineage goes, it does not entirely matter but the S class started
in the pontoon as well, with the super roundies.
You could also argue that the smaller engined ones
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