[1975] Mercedez-Benz C111 Design Study by Bruno Sacco
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[1975] Mercedez-Benz C111 Design Study by Bruno Sacco
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It looks like something Pininfarina could have styled.
What a great Mercedes ! Never seen it before.Sure, it's not a C111. Try to ask on the forum of this website : [url="http://www.supercarfrance.com"]http://www.supercarfrance.com[/url]
[IMG]http://www.cars-wallpapers.net/wp-content/uploads/2008/01/mercedes-c-111.jpg[/IMG]
It does share a lot of lines with the C111's
but also with the C112:
[IMG]http://e-carzone.com/mercedes/c112_1991/c112b.jpg[/IMG]
The "C11x" are famous prototype/mule cars from Mercedes to test out new designs and ideas. Maybe the car you have found is a "C111,5"!?
The C112 was also my first thought, until I went back to my own pictures of that car.....this is something else.
AFAIK it's an early, 1969 C111 prototype design study (C111-Designstudie), designed by Bruno Sacco. Piece of beauty.
:eek:its beautiful.
That C112, when did they make it? Who ripped off who with the back half of it? It stinks of NSX.
Ecnelis is right, it is a C111 II by Bruno Sacco.
C112 is concept of 1991
[ame="http://www.ultimatecarpage.com/forum/showthread.php?t=8338"]Mercedes-Benz C112 Concept (1991) - Ultimatecarpage.com forums[/ame]
But it was also the only C111 with a Diesel (i have a magacine that says so)
C111-III was Diesel-powered, too, and it broke few Diesel-powered cars records. Diesel engines were used also in C111-IV and in some time in C111-II, if I'm not wrong.
I think I've read that there were a few versions of those gullwing concepts. They were sort of test beds, so they built a few different revisions to test different hardware. This one appears to be somewhere between the C111 and C112.
Edit: particularly the C111, it had different versions with different engines, Diesel, Wankel, etc.
This picture has three different ones:
[URL="http://s2.desktopmachine.com/pics/MB_C111-06-1024.jpg"]http://s2.desktopmachine.com/pics/MB_C111-06-1024.jpg[/URL]
Compared to the other C series prototypes, this model seems to be much less angular and much more sensuous. It's gorgeous.
[quote=IBrake4Rainbows;951181]Compared to the other C series prototypes, this model seems to be much less angular and much more sensuous. It's gorgeous.[/quote]
Agreed- I prefer this 100x to the SLS AMG.
3 more pictures (1024x683)... :rolleyes: