Mercedes-Benz W02

Mercedes-Benz Typ 8/38 PS / Typ Stuttgart 200 (W 02)
Mercedes-Benz 8/38 PS (1927)
Overview
ManufacturerDaimler-Benz AG
Also calledMercedes-Benz 8/38 PS (1926–1933)
Mercedes-Benz Typ Stuttgart 200 (1929–1933)
Mercedes-Benz W02 (1929–1933)
Production1926–1933
16,956 built
AssemblyStuttgart, Germany
Body and chassis
Body styleTorpedo-bodied "Tourenwagen"
2- & 4-door "Limousine" (sedan/saloon)
Cabriolets
LayoutFR layout
Powertrain
Engine1,988 cc In line six-cylinder sidevalve engine
Dimensions
Wheelbase2,810 mm (111 in)
Length4,060 mm (160 in) - 4,375 mm (172.2 in)
Width1926-29: 1,680 mm (66 in)
1929-33: 1,710 mm (67 in)
Height1,800 mm (71 in)

The Mercedes-Benz W02 was a midsize six-cylinder two-litre-engined automobile introduced by Daimler-Benz at the Berlin Motor Show in October 1926. It was developed in some haste under the manufacturer's Technical Director, Ferdinand Porsche in parallel with the smaller Mercedes-Benz W 01 (which never progressed beyond the prototype stage) and the larger three-litre-engined Mercedes-Benz W03 following the creation of Daimler-Benz, formally in July 1926, from the fusion of the Daimler and Benz & Cie auto-businesses.

The new company's models for 1926 were unencumbered by an excess of technical sophistication, but came from a company with a long-standing reputation for quality: serious teething problems afflicting the early cars were the focus of conflict between Daimler-Benz Chairman, Wilhelm Kissel and the Technical Director responsible for the new models: Porsche's employment contract was not renewed beyond 1928, which led to an acrimonious litigation.[1]

  1. ^ Oswald, p. 217