Pictures Mercedes S-class and BMW 7-series cutaways

[Rolf]

Part 3 of my series on cutaways showing the internals of the famous BMW 7-series and Mercedes S-class models from 1970's to 1980's.

1975 Mercedes W116 350SE:

1978 E23 BMW 733i

1980 Mercedes W126 380SE:

1988 BMW E32 750iL:

 

[Merc1]

I will never forget first time I saw the 1988 750iL with that V12 badge on the side. Sheer legend.

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[klier]

Cool threads Rolf, thanks for posting!

 

[Rolf]

I will never forget first time I saw the 1988 750iL with that...

I remember in 1987 as a kid been mega excited to see BMW bring out a V12 in the 7 series and then the same time the 560SEL/SEC debuted. This was the biggest grunge match at the time with the German luxury saloons. The 750iL was very popular with the press, everyone was fascinated about a German saloon with an exotic V12 engine.

 

[dalab]

I didn't know about this L7 and L6, every once in a while you learn something new, or old.

"Back in the day of the e23 L7 & e24 L6...BMW had to do a lot of fixes for the all leather dash and headliners."

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6 SERIES E24 - L6

I thought L7 was just the extra long, this one

 

[Matski]

I didn't know about this L7 and L6, every once in a while you learn something new, or old.

US Branding for models known as Highline in Europe as far as I recall.

E38 L7 nearly had a factory follow up...

 

[picsoubmw]

US Branding for models known as Highline in Europe as far as I recall.

E38 L7 nearly had a factory follow up...

Thanks for sharing this, I never knew BMW even considered making an another L7 after the e38. I think they should have made it into production, it would have been a huge hit in some market. Another missed opportunity by BMW…

Looking for more info about it, I could only find the same picture in a comment back in early 2019. If you have more information about it, please share.

 

[Matski]

Looking for more info about it, I could only find the same picture in a comment back in early 2019. If you have more information about it, please share.

I believe the photo was taken by UK based BMW magazine BMW Car. Though I did collect that mag going back to about 1996, I don't have issues recently enough to cover when that photo was taken. I might investigate more.