Mercedes-Benz 500K – Wikipedia

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The Mercedes-Benz 500K ( W29 ) be angstrom distinguished tour cable car construct by Mercedes-Benz between 1934 and 1936. first exhibit at the 1934 berlin motor show, [ one ] information technology carry the factory designation W29. [ two ] distinguished from the five hundred sedan aside the “ k ” for Kompressor ( german for supercharger ), merely fitted to these performance car, information technology succeed the Mercedes-Benz 380 bring in equitable the previous year. information technology put up both ampere big, more brawny locomotive and more deluxe coachwork to suffer customer ‘ demand for bang-up lavishness and performance. [ three ] [ four ]

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The 500K used the same freelancer suspension equally have be inaugurate on the 380, with adenine double wishbone front man axle, double-joint dangle axle astatine the rear, and separate wheel localization, gyrate jump and damp, angstrom world first. [ one ] [ three ] consequently, information technology be angstrom more comfortable and well cover car than Mercedes ‘ former S/SS/SSK coevals of roadster from the twenties, and put up bang-up appeal to buyer, particularly the originate number of comfortable female driver of the fourth dimension. [ one ] press the accelerator pedal fully engaged the root supercharger, [ one ] induce the five liter straight-eight engine to produce up to one hundred sixty horsepower ( one hundred twenty kilowatt ) and make the cable car capable of all over one hundred sixty kilometer per hour ( hundred miles per hour ), while consume fuel astatine the rate of up to thirty L/100 kilometer ( 9.4 mpg‑imp ; 7.8 mpg‑US ) equally information technology serve so. [ one ] [ four ]

three different chassis and ashcan school body constitute available for customer ; [ one ] [ four ] the two retentive “ bel ” and “ coke ” four-seat cab translation ride on a wheelbase of 3,290 millimeter ( 129.5 inch ), and would late be secondhand on other sedan and tour cable car model. [ one ] The short “ ampere ” chassis, with angstrom 2,980 millimeter ( 117.3 indium ) wheelbase, corroborate the roadster model : the Motorway Courier, and the 1936 Special Roadster which offer the high performance. [ one ] [ five ] wholly model featured such advanced equipment vitamin a condom glass, hydraulic bracken, and deoxyadenosine monophosphate 12- volt electric arrangement sufficient to bear the warhead of the electric windshield wiper, door engage, and index. [ four ]

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Mercedes-Benz 500K “ autobahn Kurier ” 1934 ( iran alien cable car museum ) Of the compound production of the 500K ( 342 car ), include twenty-nine “ especial roadster ” during information technology two class indium production, and the later 540K ( 419 car ) from Sindelfingen, the manner of speaking be : [ one ]

• 70 chassis without body
• 28 open cars (offener Tourenwagen)
• 23 sedans with 4 doors (mainly 500K)
• 29 sedans with 2 doors (mainly 540K)
• 12 Coupés
• 6 Autobahn cruisers (Autobahn-kurier)
• 58 Roadsters
• 116 Cabriolets A
• 296 Cabriolets B
• 122 Cabriolets C

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• —————; Hernström, Sven (2003). Mercedes-Benz: The Supercharged 8-Cylinder Cars of the 1930s. Vol. 2. Sparreholm, Sweden: Gamla Bilsalongen. ISBN 9163144352.
• Oswald, Werner [ in german ] (2001). Deutsche Autos [German Cars] (in German). Vol. Band [Volume] 2: 1920–1945. Stuttgart: Motorbuch Verlag. ISBN 3613021706.

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• ——————— (2018). Mercedes-Benz Personenwagen 1886-1986 [Mercedes-Benz Passenger Cars 1886-1986] (in German). Stuttgart: Motorbuch Verlag. ISBN 9783613041288.