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: Regards, --DeLarge 17:28, 11 November 2006 (UTC)
 * 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.
 * 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 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!'' --  tariq abjotu  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..

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.

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