Buyer's guides
One guide per series: the background, the engines, the checks that matter before you buy, and how values differ between versions.
1971–1981 · 17 cars listed
The SLC — the R107 stretched into a four-seat coupe, and an unlikely rally car.
1981–1991 · 17 cars listed
The SEC — the W126 as a grand touring coupe.
1971–1989 · 391 cars listed
The SL of the 1970s and 80s — eighteen years of the same handsome car.
1963–1981 · 21 cars listed
The hand-built 600 flagship, powered throughout by hydraulics.
1956–1959 · 1 cars listed
The 219 — the small Ponton body paired with the big six-cylinder engine.
1965–1972 · 54 cars listed
The classic Paul Bracq S-Class sedan — the heart of this collection.
1965–1972 · 23 cars listed
The W108's plusher, air-suspended sister — home of the 6.3.
1961–1968 · 8 cars listed
The fintail 'Heckflosse' — the working Mercedes of the 1960s.
1959–1971 · 130 cars listed
Fintail sedans, and the elegant pillarless coupes and cabriolets.
1961–1965 · 9 cars listed
The 300SE — W111 luxury with air suspension and the all-alloy M189 six.
1963–1971 · 192 cars listed
The Pagoda — the definitive classic Mercedes roadster.
1968–1976 · 10 cars listed
The petrol '/8' — the stroke-eight sedans and pillarless coupes.
1968–1976 · 4 cars listed
The four- and five-cylinder '/8' — home of the indestructible diesels.
1972–1980 · 25 cars listed
The first car officially called S-Class — and the first turbodiesel Mercedes.
1955–1963 · 81 cars listed
The 190SL — the elegant, touring answer to the 300SL.
1976–1985 · 40 cars listed
The benchmark Mercedes — nearly 2.7 million built, bought on condition.
1984–1995 · 4 cars listed
The modern classic — engineered without regard to cost, including the Porsche-built 500E.
1979–1991 · 42 cars listed
The definitive S-Class of the 1980s — Bruno Sacco's flagship.
1958–1960 · 19 cars listed
The first fuel-injected Mercedes — the 220SE Pontons.
1936–1955 · 17 cars listed
The 170 — the car that carried Mercedes-Benz through the war years.
1954–1959 · 17 cars listed
The big six-cylinder Ponton — the 220S in sedan, coupe, and cabriolet forms.
1951–1957 · 17 cars listed
The 300 'Adenauer' — the chancellor's car, and the top Mercedes of the 1950s.
1951–1955 · 20 cars listed
The first post-war six — the 220 that restarted the line.
1954–1963 · 22 cars listed
The 300SL — Gullwing and Roadster, the founding icons of the marque.
1982–1993 · 6 cars listed
The 190 — the 'baby Benz' that took Mercedes downmarket and to the DTM.