The Țiriac Assortment Museum has added two uncommon luxurious limousines: the Mercedes 600 and 600 Pullman, each white with white leather-based upholstery.
Photograph: Răzvan Loghin, Țiriac Assortment
The Mercedes 600 (W100) was the expression of absolute luxurious, being offered in 1963 on the Frankfurt Motor Present because the successor to the venerable W186/189 Adenauer 300. The mannequin was produced for 18 years, till 1981, in solely 2,677 examples, of which 2,190 had been regular wheelbase items, 428 long-wheelbase Pullmans (304 four-door and 124 six-door), and 59 Landaulet variations.
The Țiriac assortment was enriched by two examples: a 1966 Mercedes 600 and a 1969 Mercedes 600 Pullman six-door. Each fashions are fairly uncommon, being the one ones to supply the mixture of white exterior and white leather-based upholstery inside.
Each fashions had been restored within the workshop of Klaus Kienle, a widely known Mercedes mannequin restorer within the restoration enterprise since 1984. The usual Mercedes 600 has 100,499 km on board, whereas the 600 Pullman has 95,223 km pushed.
On the Pullman model, the middle doorways haven’t any exterior handles and may solely be opened from the within.
Mercedes has produced three variations of this mannequin:– the three,200 mm (126 in) quick wheelbase model (a few of them had glass separating the entrance and rear seats)– the three,900 mm (153.5 in) lengthy wheelbase model referred to as Pullman, accessible with 4 or six doorways. A few of these had been transformed into Landaulet variations.
6.3 liter V8 engine with 250 ps (247 hp) and 500 Nm (369 lb-ft)The Mercedes 600 was an enormous and heavy automobile and Mercedes determined to make use of an even bigger engine. So, as a substitute of the 3-liter 6-cylinder M189 engine, a 6.3-liter M100 V8 with a single overhead camshaft and Bosch multipoint injection was fitted, which transmitted energy to the rear wheels by way of a 4-speed automated gearbox. The engine developed 250 ps (247 hp) and a beneficiant 500 Nm (369 lb-ft) of torque from 2,800 rpm.
Air suspension commonplace The 600 was a real technological showcase of its time, that includes a extremely advanced hydraulic system powered by a 2,200 psi pump that operated the home windows, hatch, and trunk lid and even closed the doorways robotically.
As well as, the Mercedes 600 had air suspension on all wheels, and the rear suspension maintained the bottom clearance fixed no matter load. With entrance and rear stabilizer bars, a double-wishbone entrance axle, and a low-pivot swing axle rear axle, the Mercedes 600 had a protected road-holding, and recirculating ball steering was exact.
The automobile had no onboard electronics, only a rudimentary laptop that adjusted the air-con to the specified temperature.
The journal “auto motor und sport” wrote in 1964 that “the Mercedes 600 is essentially the most attention-grabbing, essentially the most superior and the very best automobile that has ever existed”.
Spectacular checklist of ownersMercedes 600 homeowners have included businessmen, actors, singers, TV stars corresponding to Jay Leno, Elvis Presley, Eric Clapton, Jack Nicholson, Jeremy Clarkson, Elizabeth Taylor, and Rowan Atkinson, in addition to kings and heads of state corresponding to Thailand’s King Bhumibol, Deng Xiaoping, Ferdinand Marcos (he owned 4 examples, together with a Landaulet), former Ugandan dictator Idi Amin, former President of the Republic of Korea, and former President of the Republic of Korea; edent of Egypt Hosni Mubarak, North Korean dictator Kim Jong-Un, former Chinese language chief Mao Zedong, former Communist dictator of Romania Nicolae Ceaușescu, Silvio Berlusconi, former Bulgarian president Todor Jivkov or Soviet chief Leonid Brezhnev.
When it was launched in 1964, the Mercedes 600 price DM 56,500 in Germany and the 600 Pullman DM 63,500. Within the U.S., the fashions have been accessible since 1965 at $22,000 for the 600 and $24,000 for the Pullman.
