1979 was a strange year — it started with the death of Sex Pistol’s bassist Sid Vicious from a heroin overdose, then it snowed in the Sahara Desert for 30 minutes, the Shah fled Iran, and Mardi Gras celebrations in New Orleans were canceled due to a police strike…and that was only February. The world […]
It has been 6 years since Porsche released their 500 horsepower twin turbocharged 4-door luxury sedan known as the Panamera Turbo. The jab-cross combination of out of warranty Porsche service bills and befuddlingly hideous styling should have been a knockout for residual value, but the bubble butted brawler has been hanging in the fight like […]
The Mercedes-Benz W126 class was the S-Class sized battleship from Stuttgart and lasted for a remarkable 12 year production run (1979-1991), a record since Mercedes started building their flagship mega-sedans in the early 1960s. The W126 was designed by Bruno Sacco who also penned the W126/W140/W220 S-Classes…as well as the R129 SL convertible, W202/W203 C-Class, […]
The W126 generation Mercedes-Benz was the successor to the W116 S-Class platform. It was released in 1979 with a sleek and aerodynamic body design, and a cornucopia of big inline-6 and V8 engines. It is the last car you’d ever expect to be fun in an autocross…but this video and also this one on youtube make […]
The Mercedes-Benz W126 was built from 1979-1992 as the range topping sedan (today it is called the S-Class) and was a particularly well built and comfortable car. Today this 1987 Mercedes-Benz 420 SEL with 36k original owner miles is for sale on ebay for a by it now price of $9,995 in Omaha, NE. The […]