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The Mercedes S-Class — A Short History

The Mercedes S-Class — A Short History

The Mercedes S-Class — A Short History


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The brand may well have more than its fair share of iconic sports cars, SUVs, and roadsters among its ranks, but perhaps no vehicle is as closely associated with the name Mercedes-Benz as a large sedan. Big, imperious four-doors that can effortlessly roll along the autobahn at triple-digit speeds in silence and comfort, ones that announce their owner as a person of not just means, but purpose. In other words … the S-Class.

As the brand’s flagship sedan for nearly half a century — or nearly three-quarters of one, depending on how you choose to view it — the “Sonderklasse,” or “special class,” has been responsible for setting the tone for the brand in everything from technology to features to design. A new S-Class dictates the direction for later Benzes to follow. If there’s one car that must abide by the Mercedes marketing creed of “the best or nothing,” it’s the Big S.

Indeed, the S-Class is often referred to as the “best car in the world” at any given moment in time, which usually isn’t meant literally but reputationally, and, indeed, the S-Class is still the benchmark by which every other luxury sedan is measured. And like many an archetypal automobile, its current standing is in no small part built on a long, notable past full of great products. This is the history of the Mercedes-Benz S-Class.



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