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The W126 became the Mercedes Benz S-Class produced among 1979 and 1992. The extraordinary fashions produced accomplished blended income of extra than 800,000 devices, making the W126 the maximum famous Mercedes-Benz S-Class to date. Available as a long- (SEL, SDL) and brief wheel base (SE, SD) sedan, in addition to a coupé (SEC).The W126 changed the Seventies-technology W116 (such as the flagship Mercedes-Benz 450SEL 6.nine). It carried ahead the hydropneumatic suspension of the 6.nine as an alternative at the 500-, and fashionable at the 560- fashions. Following the Seventies oil crisis, Mercedes-Benz made gas performance a pertinent aim of the model, even withinside the big V8-engined fashions.It had grow to be way of life for Mercedes-Benz to elevate the requirements of car engineering, comfort, protection and generation with every new technology of the S-Class, and the W126 became no exception.

Many of those innovations, however, had been to be had most effective to the notably priced 500 and 560 fashions, and include:

+ Airbags, as a further degree of occupant protection.

+ Traction control, to save you wheelspin (a Mercedes first). + ABS brakes (as delivered via way of means of its predecessor, the W116) + Self-leveling suspension Novel luxurious functions include: + Courtesy lighting fixtures on the bottom of the doors, to allow the occupant to look the floor while exiting the car withinside the dark. + 5-manner powered, heated seats, with a reminiscence feature to preserve settings for 2 extraordinary occupants Whilst nearly all of those functions are to be had nowadays on current luxurious cars, every in its personal proper became taken into consideration very extensive withinside the 1980s. The harmonious and "matter-of-fact" manner which those had been blended, in addition to their famend durability, has delivered to the attraction of W126.

The W126 technology became changed via way of means of the W140 in 1992. The 500SEL has an thrilling vicinity in US history, for the reason that American call for for this unique vehicle drove the status quo of a big gray marketplace. The detuned, but very luxurious US specification 380 SE/SEL/SEC became underpowered, consistent with present day reports, and fueled call for for the extra effective version. 25,000 devices consistent with yr of the gray marketplace car had been offered withinside the early 1980's