Wrong game with the same numbers
11/01/2023
Did Daimler-Benz even cheat with numbers at the factory in the sixties? Okay, the Kienle-related clickbait has slowly become a bit dead. But the Stuttgart-based company did change the numbers a little to its advantage. Albeit mainly for the benefit of convenience and less for fraudulent profit maximization.
In the official photos of the newly modernized W 110 series, which the factory sent to the press in the summer of 1965, the images of the 200 and 200 D are strikingly similar. As the "little fins" with petrol and diesel engines only differed externally in the lettering, the press department apparently took the easy way out and only exchanged the lettering and license plate instead of the entire car - and interestingly, the exhaust cover as well.
However, the position of the valves and balance weights on the rims is the same, as is the positioning of the car in its surroundings in general. The only detail that could really provide information about the drive - the "salt shaker" on the dashboard - is not visible from the outside. So whether a petrol or diesel engine sat under the hood of the model-maintained tail fin will forever remain a mystery.
