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More reliable than a Toyota, larger than 3 Smarts, more comfortable than the most luxurieus Volkswagen, slower than any other car produced today and still consuming more gasoline than a pick-up truck. We are very proud to be fout by driving an old German tank named S124. Its 2.5 liter diesel engine already made it for over 450.000 km and should easily reach 1.000.000 km if you would ask any taxi driver in Morocco.

Reliability

The W124 gained a good reputation for reliability. In 1995 the diesel engined version topped the "upper middle class" category in a reliability survey of 4-6 year old cars undertaken by the German Automobile Association (ADAC), with 11.8 recorded breakdowns per 1,000 vehicles for four year old cars and 21.6 for six year old ones: this compared with 14.6 breakdowns per 1,000 cars for four year old Audi 100s and 27.3 for six year old big Audis.

Safety

Some main innovations of the W124 series were related to occupant safety. Derived from the Mercedes 190 (W201), with which the W124 shares the basic layout, its likewise edgy body was designed to withstand an offset-crash in a concrete barrier at some 35 mp/h without serious harm to the occupants and a largely undamaged passenger cabin, a windshield that stays in place and doors easily opened without special recovery tools. This crash-test configuration became the base for the Euro-NCAP procedure currently being the standard crash-test configuration in the EU. Unlike Euro-NCAP, Mercedes required the body of the W124 to withstand an offset impact from the front and from the rear.

Ster

Mercedes is een geliefd merk. Ook al rijden we persoonlijk liever in een BMW zodra het wat harder gaat, een Mercedes is voor deze trip niet verkeerd. Klein feitje voor de statisticus, de ster is zo geliefd dat dit het meest verkochte onderdeel van Mercedes is. Er wordt er nog wel eens eentje van de motorkap getrokken door jaloers gespuis..

1886

De Benz Patent-Motorwagen van 1886. De eerste automobiel ter wereld. Als we helemaal eerlijk zijn, waren er al eerder ’automobielen’ die werden aangedreven door stoom of elektriciteit. Carl Benz was echter degene die niet alleen op het lumineuze idee kwam om een verbrandings motor als aandrijving voor zijn vehikel te gebruiken, maar deze uitvinding
als eerste ook daadwerkelijk in de praktijk toepaste. Op 29 januari 1886 maakte hij zijn opwachting bij het keizerlijk patentbureau – de automobiel was geboren.

Mercedes W124

W124 is the Mercedes-Benz internal chassis-designation for the 1985 to 1995 version of the Mercedes-Benz E-Class. The W124 models replaced the W123 models after 1985 and were superseded by the W210 E-Class after 1995.

History

The W124 is a mid-sized vehicle platform. Due to the high cost of German engineering and build quality, the W124 was designed to last many miles, with awards actually given and worn by high mileage versions. Front suspension uses a separate spring and damper with a rubber top mount. The rear suspension of the W124 features the Mercedes multi-link axle introduced in 1982 with the Mercedes 190 and which is now standard on many modern cars. Estate cars (and optionally, saloons and coupes) had Citroen-like self-leveling rear suspension with suspension struts rather than shock absorbers, gas-filled suspension spheres to provide damping and an under bonnet pressurizing pump. Unlike the traditional Citroën application Mercedes opted for a fixed ride height and employed rear coil springs to maintain the static ride height when parked.

Mercedes S124 250D