Last night I was cruising round in...

[DarrenW]

...this:





pics are awful cos, well, it was dark!

Absolutely glorious motor! A mate of mine bought it on eBay for £1000 a while back, 4.5 V8 (sounds fantastic!) and it's in superb condition.

I know one or two people on here have them... What amazed me was how 'modern' it felt compared to his other car - a Rover P5b coupe which is only a year or two older.
Amazingly nimble for such a huge motor too!

[Benmarina16v]

DarrenW said:

...this:

I know one or two people on here have them... What amazed me was how 'modern' it felt compared to his other car - a Rover P5b coupe which is only a year or two older.
Amazingly nimble for such a huge motor too!

This just shows how advanced the Germans were from the brittish back then!

[rainking]

That's seriously cool....

big Mercs ROCK!

[Paul H]

Benmarina16v said:

This just shows how advanced the Germans were from the brittish back then!

Not really - the P5B was an old model by then, the MB was newly introduced. It's like comparing a Morris Minor to a Renault 5 (Moggy ended in '71, R5 started '74 / '75?), and then concluding that all Brit cars were equivelently far behind. IMO, a fairer comparison for the Merc would be against a Rover SD1, but even they weren't exactly head-on rivals when new!

[Nathan]

Now that look nice only £1000 jesus i am doing something wrong i think.. Wonder if its any good as a daily driver getting sick of my focus now

[DarrenW]

BGTMIDGET7476 said:

Now that look nice only £1000 jesus i am doing something wrong i think.. Wonder if its any good as a daily driver getting sick of my focus now

He does 70 miles a day in it, no problems at all... Except for the fuel bill!

[jiminwatford]

i've been offered one of them for £150, failed MOT on £200 worth of welding only..

there's another one here cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&rd=1&item=4522292678&ssPageName=STRK:MEWA:IT

[DarrenW]

AmazonSprite said:

Not really - the P5B was an old model by then, the MB was newly introduced. It's like comparing a Morris Minor to a Renault 5 (Moggy ended in '71, R5 started '74 / '75?), and then concluding that all Brit cars were equivelently far behind. IMO, a fairer comparison for the Merc would be against a Rover SD1, but even they weren't exactly head-on rivals when new!

That's the exact conversation we were having last night. The SD1 is probably fairer but was also a product of the "dark days" of the british motor industry... Nothing came close to that S-Class at the time - the Jaguar was a lot cheaper, a Rolls Royce appealed to a different market and we couldn't really think of any others...

[Revolution 9]

My dad worked for a guy who had a fleet of them that got used for the business, ( a scrapyard where they got used for everything from going to meetings with potential suppliers/customers etc and giving a good impression, to company cars, and occasionally scrap metal carriers sacreligiously enough) three of them, in exactly those colours, along with, bizzarely enough, a Rolls Silver Shadow, a Jag XJ12, and from time to time a Colt Celeste, and the ol man's own Mazda B1800, all of them being used by the firm, I rode in all of them the odd time, and loved all of them, the mercs were great! Funny though, seeing a fleet of two dark blue Mercs, a matching Jag and an also dark Blue Roller, all gleaming normally, travelling together, was like seeing the Mafia off to kill someone! ;D ;D ;D

[Paul H]

DarrenW said:

That's the exact conversation we were having last night.

;D ;D

[BenzBoy]

The W116 is a great car!! The only Mercedes to have won Car Of The Year. I'd really like one

[hairnet]

thers a bid going on that merc ;D