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Bavarian Cruiser
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No, not from a recent issue but a road test copmparison from July 1965 in which the 600 came out on top of six luxury cars, including (in order of rank behind the 600) the Cadillac Fleetwood Brougham, Lincoln Continental, Rolls-Royce Silver Cloud, Chrysler Imperial LeBaron and Jaguar 4.2/Mark X.
Here are some excerpts:
"The Mercedes-Benz 600 proved to our complete satisfaction, that it is the best car in the world. A top executive at Cadillac paid it a light-hearted compliment when he said, 'It's probably the ultimate Cadillac,' and in many ways, he was dead right."
"From the outside it makes no bones about what it is. It is a rectangular box, its flat sides and square corners compromised only where it was necessary to incorporate wheels and engine and luggage space. The rather ponderous use of chrome only seems to underline this fact--not Freudian, not the result of misapplied motivational research, just an engineer's notion of where some bright metal highlights were needed, topped, as always, by the Silver Star. The effect of all this pugnacious-looking self-confidence is a bit awe-inspiring--like watching Babe Ruth point to the spot where he was going to poke his next home run and knowing, just sure as hell, that he could do it.
This Mercedes will do it too, just sure as hell."
Here are some excerpts:
"The Mercedes-Benz 600 proved to our complete satisfaction, that it is the best car in the world. A top executive at Cadillac paid it a light-hearted compliment when he said, 'It's probably the ultimate Cadillac,' and in many ways, he was dead right."
"From the outside it makes no bones about what it is. It is a rectangular box, its flat sides and square corners compromised only where it was necessary to incorporate wheels and engine and luggage space. The rather ponderous use of chrome only seems to underline this fact--not Freudian, not the result of misapplied motivational research, just an engineer's notion of where some bright metal highlights were needed, topped, as always, by the Silver Star. The effect of all this pugnacious-looking self-confidence is a bit awe-inspiring--like watching Babe Ruth point to the spot where he was going to poke his next home run and knowing, just sure as hell, that he could do it.
This Mercedes will do it too, just sure as hell."
Very interesting info. I need to do a google on torsional rigidity and find out more about that. Do you have sources for the torsional rigidity on other MB models? BTW, MB is built into my genes as well.
