Talk:Mercedes-Benz W111

Photograph

I think it's great that people have contributed to this article, but User:Red marquis removed my original (clear, representative, in my opinion) image, firstly for an unclear "Glamour shot", and then a fairly plain, but less obvious image. If you're going to be rude enough to just take over, please at least discuss it in the talk page.

- User:Dawidl (27 Jan 2005, 12:25 SAST)

W111/Fintail

I just noticed the Mercedes-Benz W111 page was made into a redirect on 12:18, July 6, 2006. However, the opening paragraph of this article says "Though never officially designated as such, the cars gained the nickname [Heckflosse] because of..." etc etc.

I'm going to reverse the redirects for two reasons:

1. Wikipedia suggests naming articles after "what the majority of English speakers would most easily recognize". Clearly, that wouldn't be the German word for 'Fintail'.
2. For consistency with the rest of Wikipedia; see the Classic MB template and pretty much every individual article linked from there.

Regards, --DeLarge 17:28, 11 November 2006 (UTC)

I agree, the model name is a more appropriate title than the nickname. Recury 17:34, 12 November 2006 (UTC)

Move Request

It was requested that this article be renamed but the procedure outlined at WP:RM#Steps for requesting a controversial page move did not appear to be followed, and consensus could not be determined. Please request a move again with proper procedure if there is still a desire for the page to be moved. Thank you for your time! -- tariqabjotu 05:57, 18 November 2006 (UTC)

Crumple zones

Randroide 18:43, 21 November 2006 (UTC) The fintail was the first car using them:

Safety Cell: The idea of a "safe" rigid cell surrounded by softer "crumple zones" to protect people in a crash came from Bela Barenyi, a hero of car safety who worked as an engineer for Mercedes-Benz. The idea was patented in 1951 and went into production in 1959 on the "fintail" series.[1].

The source does not support that claim. I have reworded it. // Liftarn

Need to remove the external link to the Heckflosse restoration. It now appears to be a domain squatter.

It now goes to a page with no actual content and flashing ads.

Jolly mutant seattle (talk) 05:54, 4 January 2008 (UTC)

the link to the news article at refrence [1] appears to not work anymore —Preceding unsigned comment added by 121.45.181.114 (talk) 00:35, 23 April 2008 (UTC)

Heap of raw data at the top

What is it? What is it meant to be? Someone please fix it, or throw it away.

Maribert (talk) 21:00, 4 June 2008 (UTC)

Bad caption and section heading

The photo of a late W111 coupe is captioned as a "1966 280SE," but there is no such beast, since 280SE did not exist until 1968, according to the page itself. Also, the clearance lights indicate that it's a U.S. model, 1968 or later. I edited the caption accordingly.
Also, the heading "Second Series, 1966-1968 is incorrect, since the information on the page itself indicates that the W111 was produced through the 1971 model year. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 198.189.141.254 (talk) 20:50, 24 June 2008 (UTC)

220SE Sedan

In the section on the sedan it says "all models shared the 2195 cc M127 straight-six engine carried over from the previous generation, producing 95 hp (71 kW) at 4800 rpm", but below in the chart it lists 3 models of 220 Sedan, starting with 95PS and reaching 120PS. They all used the M127 engine, but not the 95PS version. I assume that was the base model. One of these claims must be mistaken.

64.222.125.27 (talk) 18:22, 1 March 2020 (UTC)