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Mercedes 600 Pullman Limousine

The Mercedes-Benz 600 was a gigantic luxuriousness automobile. It was supposed to permute the direct pinnacle of automobile subject, and when introduced in 1963 had few competitors. Production began in 1965 after two period of ramp-up, with most styles shapely finished 1972. Modest creation continued to 1981, nevertheless. During this second, 2,677 vehicles were prefab.

The possibility featured some luxuries, including a labyrinthine hydraulic group which supercharged everything from the windows and way to the involuntary motility doors. The represent came in various variants:
+ A 4-door litter on a shortsighted wheelbase, corresponding to a stylish S600 litter in layout.
+ A 4-door litter on a truncate wheelbase but with a noesis pane separating the figurehead way from the back organization place.
+ A 4-door limousine on a somebody wheelbase featuring two rear-facing way and a nurture establishment center. Most, but not all, had powerfulness windows.
+ A 6-door limousine on a semipermanent wheelbase chassis. This had two headlong braving saltation seats stationed at the intervening two doors and a place establishment furniture.
+ A few of the limousines were made with a exchangeable top over the place passenger compartment and were titled landaulets. Production of this example ended a period earlier, in 1971.
+ Two coupés were made (one of them as a talent for Dr. Uhlenhaut, the man that designed the car, when he old.)
+ One funeral equipage (hearse) was prefab. This car, and the two coupés mentioned above, live to the state day in the Federated States.

The 600 was so strong that a monumental 6.3L V8 engine with return camshafts and Bosch automatonlike carbon shot was specially formed to change the vehicle. Adjustable air hiatus gave the car a unsubdivided travel and genuine manipulation over any traveling ascend, tho the cars lightness was necessarily compromised by its aggregation.

Produced until 1980 in extremely narrow lottery, this leader had no equivalent in the Mercedes-Benz roster until the intromission of the late Maybach 57 and 62 models.

The 600s "M-100" engine and air hanging were fitted to the 300SEL 6.3 theory in 1966, providing the ignitor (and more cheap) car with writer efficient debarment. Upon the informing of the "W116" chassis, a large writing of the M-100 was installed in the limited-production 6.9.

Famous owners of the 600 include Hugh Hefner, Elizabeth President, Book Lennon, Jason Kay, Aristotle Onassis,Nicolae Ceaus,escu ,Josip Broz-Tito,Lead Mao Tse-Tung and Elvis Presley.