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AMS journalist Jorn Thomas recently drove the fantastic Mercedes C111 (same car as my Avatar), here is an english (google) translated version of his article:
Mercedes C 111 in the test
Close to the car roof
While the summer sun warps, the asphalt still flickers, make the pop-up headlights of the Mercedes C 111 the lights of the big city society. Exit with the legendary experimental car.
You, as the 20, just 1.80 meters, flowing mane, nestles with its ideal dimensions closely to their types. We think: Man, when you run it. But then the guy calls us exactly this set through the small vent windows to. And, although next to me merely Hans-Dieter Seufert, photographer, stuck in the bucket seat. Well over 20, under 1.80, no mane. What would be clear: the guy thinks our Mercedes C 111-II. In psychedelic orange and rare as a blue Mauritius. One of the past eleven copies, otherwise just in the museum or in the back of the minds of all automobile aficionados.
Price can be estimated only
But on this summer Friday night glowing in the Stuttgart City gets the Mercedes C 111 output. Keep out, strolling, head-turning, eye tearing. And we? Answer questions: "Does the the Wankel engine?" Actually, yes, but here is a reconstructed experimental vehicle with V8. "How much horsepower?"200 "What does it cost?" Can not buy just underestimated. Each C 111 is like a single piece, there is no market, never left a Daimler-hands. Allegedly, since the 70 pristine blank checks from sheikhs in Untertürkheimer safe. So surely a seven. Euro.
What surprised no one. Whether little girls or big boys - the Mercedes C 111 gets them all. He has, after many vain endeavor: style. And for that he gets respect. Applauded not only by the service stations clique, the otherwise rather dull black Gallardo or Stealth Gray Nissan GT-R. The four guys are polite, ask competent. About whether there under the matte black lid and black tail behind the grille of the original four-rotor Wankel rotates, and how the sport-Benz because it drives.
Surprisingly straightforward. The entrance through the well into the roof projecting wing doors is easy despite high door sill, if one threaded his legs UTV burly sedan steering wheel of the Mercedes C 111. Then everything is quite easy, the interior philanthropic arranged with plenty of shoulder room and more space for the legs than in the current mid-engine heroes like Gallardo and Co. Wonderfully distinctive instruments and the Mercedes then usual controls take the fear of the first time, also fights the air conditioning together with the vent windows reliably sweats.
There we are. So rum key and go. First Course at the bottom left, while the five-speed gearbox sometimes locks, otherwise: all good. It flushes out the 1.3-ton liquid ahead, click the gears precisely, commanded by the small Alukugel the long stick. Should you Mercedes C 111 times looking for the reverse - press the little button in the Alukugel easy to unlock. The clutch operates reliably and not too stiff, the recirculating ball steering calculable, the turning circle is smaller than mid-size sedans . Even the annoying back and forth during a photo shoot in the stifling basin masters of sports-Benz (with 4.44 meters length as an Audi R8, but 13 cm flat) with serienhaftem equanimity. Despite 30 degrees outside at the home game be circuit remains with 100 degree water and engine oil in the green zone stable, while a hysterical Lamborghini Murciélago next door desperately extends its cooling air fireplaces.
Mercedes C 111 provides for daily use 3.5-liter V8
Despair? No subject the Mercedes C 111, that mixture of the Swabian virtues pioneering spirit, ingenuity and practicality. At that time, 1970, when the engineers of prototyping a standard 3.5-liter V8 (M116 type) implanted in the C 111. He served the direct comparison with the 350-hp four-rotor Wankel engine that cultured, but capricious future carrier. And the short-stroke aluminum V8 in the center of the C 111 - despite slight revs lethargy rather Flaneur because arsonists - makes with its 200 hp the best of it. He left pushes on, working appropriately peppy through the rev range.
As usual, he delivers a lighter, non-specific sound because of its firing order instead of dark V8 buffeting noise. After all, it is enough to drown the croaking Becker Europa radio in Mercedes C 111. What is the Dreifuffziger could recommend as an unpretentious gentleman sportsman without hustling ambitions. Calming influence in expressive envelope. That would have been not only a big hit in 1970. Nevertheless - it remains in attempt ultimately kills the problematic Wankel project C 111th
All the better that the engineers of prototyping now again put a M116 in an original chassis from 1970 and vote the whole thing so skillfully. Our Mercedes C 111 is not aseptically restored to death showpiece, but authentic, experienced in the best sense. So, as if he had slept only a few decades and now freshly awakened, full of energy, the bathroom looked in the crowd.
What we like the Mercedes C 111 permit, as easy as he makes it to us.Behaved on the IAA first version in 1969 shown with High aufragendem instrument panel, small windows and closed tailgate little accessible and not very clear, is type 2 is partly because of the cutouts in the side roof extensions downright city fit.
Not for nothing, the Daimler Board of Management wish the project start of Mercedes C 111 next to the suitability as GT-prototype full everyday practicality. For both made next project manager Hans Liebold and Rudolf Uhlen skin, already the Mercedes Silver Arrows had been at the start. Uhlen skin, head of passenger car development and avid racer - which, when it came down to it, even the full-time racers drove an edge in the pride - aims to demonstrate the potential of Wankel engine and semi-trailing arm rear axle. The Daimler Board of Management is quickly convinced and put a fiberglass body on a steel platform. But: Even the 280 PS version with the first three-rotor Wankel suffice to even tough guys dissuade the semi-trailing arm rear axle.
Mercedes C 111 with elaborate suspension
Miserable directional stability and load change sensitivity bring the Mercedes C 111 then double-wishbone front and a four-link rear axle (on each side two lateral and two trailing arms) a. Which also contributes to the driving stability as the cooling air ducts to the front hood that reduce the buoyancy by 20 percent. Together with the not too harsh suspension tuning and clean responsive steering drives the mid-engine car even by today's standards passable however, requires only tender closing the throttle in the curve to imagine the reactions under more drastic maneuvers. Not to mention the 14-inch Michelin MXV tires with their more historical level of grip.
Our enthusiasm diminishes the piece no. Fused with the gripping bucket seats, the rear just above the asphalt, we treat ourselves nor a fixed round the end, the Mercedes C 111 like it. Then not only Mercedes-freaks playing with the thought of bedding to sew from contemporary plaid, the papered the door panels and the headliner next to the seats. And if I just think about the guy from before was right: This night went really great.
Mercedes C 111 in the test
Close to the car roof
While the summer sun warps, the asphalt still flickers, make the pop-up headlights of the Mercedes C 111 the lights of the big city society. Exit with the legendary experimental car.
You, as the 20, just 1.80 meters, flowing mane, nestles with its ideal dimensions closely to their types. We think: Man, when you run it. But then the guy calls us exactly this set through the small vent windows to. And, although next to me merely Hans-Dieter Seufert, photographer, stuck in the bucket seat. Well over 20, under 1.80, no mane. What would be clear: the guy thinks our Mercedes C 111-II. In psychedelic orange and rare as a blue Mauritius. One of the past eleven copies, otherwise just in the museum or in the back of the minds of all automobile aficionados.
Price can be estimated only
But on this summer Friday night glowing in the Stuttgart City gets the Mercedes C 111 output. Keep out, strolling, head-turning, eye tearing. And we? Answer questions: "Does the the Wankel engine?" Actually, yes, but here is a reconstructed experimental vehicle with V8. "How much horsepower?"200 "What does it cost?" Can not buy just underestimated. Each C 111 is like a single piece, there is no market, never left a Daimler-hands. Allegedly, since the 70 pristine blank checks from sheikhs in Untertürkheimer safe. So surely a seven. Euro.
What surprised no one. Whether little girls or big boys - the Mercedes C 111 gets them all. He has, after many vain endeavor: style. And for that he gets respect. Applauded not only by the service stations clique, the otherwise rather dull black Gallardo or Stealth Gray Nissan GT-R. The four guys are polite, ask competent. About whether there under the matte black lid and black tail behind the grille of the original four-rotor Wankel rotates, and how the sport-Benz because it drives.
Surprisingly straightforward. The entrance through the well into the roof projecting wing doors is easy despite high door sill, if one threaded his legs UTV burly sedan steering wheel of the Mercedes C 111. Then everything is quite easy, the interior philanthropic arranged with plenty of shoulder room and more space for the legs than in the current mid-engine heroes like Gallardo and Co. Wonderfully distinctive instruments and the Mercedes then usual controls take the fear of the first time, also fights the air conditioning together with the vent windows reliably sweats.
There we are. So rum key and go. First Course at the bottom left, while the five-speed gearbox sometimes locks, otherwise: all good. It flushes out the 1.3-ton liquid ahead, click the gears precisely, commanded by the small Alukugel the long stick. Should you Mercedes C 111 times looking for the reverse - press the little button in the Alukugel easy to unlock. The clutch operates reliably and not too stiff, the recirculating ball steering calculable, the turning circle is smaller than mid-size sedans . Even the annoying back and forth during a photo shoot in the stifling basin masters of sports-Benz (with 4.44 meters length as an Audi R8, but 13 cm flat) with serienhaftem equanimity. Despite 30 degrees outside at the home game be circuit remains with 100 degree water and engine oil in the green zone stable, while a hysterical Lamborghini Murciélago next door desperately extends its cooling air fireplaces.
Mercedes C 111 provides for daily use 3.5-liter V8
Despair? No subject the Mercedes C 111, that mixture of the Swabian virtues pioneering spirit, ingenuity and practicality. At that time, 1970, when the engineers of prototyping a standard 3.5-liter V8 (M116 type) implanted in the C 111. He served the direct comparison with the 350-hp four-rotor Wankel engine that cultured, but capricious future carrier. And the short-stroke aluminum V8 in the center of the C 111 - despite slight revs lethargy rather Flaneur because arsonists - makes with its 200 hp the best of it. He left pushes on, working appropriately peppy through the rev range.
As usual, he delivers a lighter, non-specific sound because of its firing order instead of dark V8 buffeting noise. After all, it is enough to drown the croaking Becker Europa radio in Mercedes C 111. What is the Dreifuffziger could recommend as an unpretentious gentleman sportsman without hustling ambitions. Calming influence in expressive envelope. That would have been not only a big hit in 1970. Nevertheless - it remains in attempt ultimately kills the problematic Wankel project C 111th
All the better that the engineers of prototyping now again put a M116 in an original chassis from 1970 and vote the whole thing so skillfully. Our Mercedes C 111 is not aseptically restored to death showpiece, but authentic, experienced in the best sense. So, as if he had slept only a few decades and now freshly awakened, full of energy, the bathroom looked in the crowd.
What we like the Mercedes C 111 permit, as easy as he makes it to us.Behaved on the IAA first version in 1969 shown with High aufragendem instrument panel, small windows and closed tailgate little accessible and not very clear, is type 2 is partly because of the cutouts in the side roof extensions downright city fit.
Not for nothing, the Daimler Board of Management wish the project start of Mercedes C 111 next to the suitability as GT-prototype full everyday practicality. For both made next project manager Hans Liebold and Rudolf Uhlen skin, already the Mercedes Silver Arrows had been at the start. Uhlen skin, head of passenger car development and avid racer - which, when it came down to it, even the full-time racers drove an edge in the pride - aims to demonstrate the potential of Wankel engine and semi-trailing arm rear axle. The Daimler Board of Management is quickly convinced and put a fiberglass body on a steel platform. But: Even the 280 PS version with the first three-rotor Wankel suffice to even tough guys dissuade the semi-trailing arm rear axle.
Mercedes C 111 with elaborate suspension
Miserable directional stability and load change sensitivity bring the Mercedes C 111 then double-wishbone front and a four-link rear axle (on each side two lateral and two trailing arms) a. Which also contributes to the driving stability as the cooling air ducts to the front hood that reduce the buoyancy by 20 percent. Together with the not too harsh suspension tuning and clean responsive steering drives the mid-engine car even by today's standards passable however, requires only tender closing the throttle in the curve to imagine the reactions under more drastic maneuvers. Not to mention the 14-inch Michelin MXV tires with their more historical level of grip.
Our enthusiasm diminishes the piece no. Fused with the gripping bucket seats, the rear just above the asphalt, we treat ourselves nor a fixed round the end, the Mercedes C 111 like it. Then not only Mercedes-freaks playing with the thought of bedding to sew from contemporary plaid, the papered the door panels and the headliner next to the seats. And if I just think about the guy from before was right: This night went really great.
