We have no idea if the owner of the following Frankenstein car is a technician certified to transform a perfectly good S-Class sedan into a four-door S-Class convertible. By that we mean that the ...

The W126 Mercedes-Benz S-Class, which was built between 1979 and 1991, will always be cherished for its timeless styling, its no-expense-spared build quality and amazing reliability (despite not ...

We just had a whole sequence of Jeco and Kanto Seiki car clocks in the Car Clock of the Week series, so this week we'll head over to Europe for a VDO-made clock pulled from the dash of a mighty W126 ...

The convertible, built by Straman, is based on a 1986 560 SEC coupe. The car has lived its whole life as a convertible, having been ordered and completed by Straman when new. Mercedes never built a ...

One of the interesting side effects of a life spent in both old and new cars is the realisation that progress isn't linear, or even guaranteed. The point was made very stylishly last year when I got ...

From the July 1987 issue of Car and Driver. It's been another long day on Wall Street. Your clients will never know what you've gone through to keep them from taking it in the neck. You loosen your ...

I’d been trudging up to the Alps chalet, my feet stopped in their snowy tracks. A glimmering gold W126 Mercedes-Benz S-Class sat on winter tires, with chains on the rears. It looked perfect. Instantly ...

The early 1980s were not short on powerful coupes, but few cars projected authority quite like the 1983 Mercedes-Benz 500SEC.

Even after the introduction of big, powerful competitors, the Mercedes-Benz 560SEL remains the standard-bearer for its impressive blend of luxury and capability. 1987 Mercedes-Benz 560SEL 1987 ...

Mercedes-AMG might be a popular sub-brand offering performance-focused variants of nearly the entire Mercedes range, but let’s not forget it was once an independent tuner before the merger in the late ...