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Economy from Swabian steel - Mercedes-Benz 200 D in the (historic) test

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Created on December 3, 1965

Reading time 9min

Written by:

Jürgen Stockmar

Photos:

Daimler-Benz AG

Mercedes-Benz 200 D (1966) – am Bodensee

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Mercedes-Benz 200 D (1965) – Blinker jetzt unter den Scheinwerfern statt auf den Kotflügeln

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Mercedes-Benz 200 D (1965) – Seitenansicht

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Mercedes-Benz 200 D (1965) – äusserlich nur durch den Schriftzug von den Benzinern zu unterscheiden

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Mercedes-Benz 200 D (1965) – Armaturenbrett. Der "Salzstreuer" versteckt sich hinter dem Lenkradkranz

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Mercedes-Benz 200 D (1965) - Dieselmotor der kleinen Baureihe

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Mercedes-Benz 200 D (1965) – mit grösseren 14-Zoll-Rädern

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Mercedes-Benz 200 D (1965) – als Taxi am Stuttgarter Hauptbahnhof

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Mercedes-Benz 200 D (1966) – schick mit Weisswandreifen

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Mercedes-Benz 200 D (1966) – Schriftzug wechsel dich: exakt dieses Foto gibt es auch von einem 230

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Summary

Anyone who sees driving a car not as a pleasure, but as a necessary evil that should be as painless and economical as possible, found their ideal means of transportation in the Mercedes-Benz 200 D: as comfortable as all Stuttgart products and at the same time extremely frugal - but also in terms of driving performance, as this historical test report shows.

This article contains the following chapters

The unequal brothers
Cheap kilometers
Knocking banned
Diesel for computers
Technical data & measured values

Estimated reading time: 9min

Preview (beginning of the article)

Since the days of the 170 D, Daimler-Benz has also equipped its smallest vehicle type with a diesel engine. It is not only the fact that the compression-ignition engines with their formerly rather rough and sometimes uncultivated engine running are offered by this company that is astonishing, but also the success of the diesel-powered cars with the three-pointed star. For while the diesel engine has now established itself almost everywhere in the field of commercial vehicle construction, most car buyers have not really been able to make friends with it. Several automobile companies have already tried to exploit the advantages of the diesel process in passenger cars, but buyers have decided against it. On the continent, only Peugeot and Mercedes, whose diesel versions represent a not insignificant percentage of all units produced, have not been discouraged. At Daimler-Benz, the 190 D was even the best-selling model of all.

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