Mercedes-Benz W 21 | |
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Overview | |
Manufacturer | Mercedes-Benz |
Also called | Mercedes-Benz Typ(e) 200 |
Production | 1933–1936 15,622 units |
Assembly | Stuttgart, Germany |
Body and chassis | |
Class | Mid-size luxury car |
Body style | Standard length: 4-door ”Limousine” (sedan) 4-door ”Limousine” (sedan) (from 1935) Torpedo bodied 2-door “Tourenwagen” Cabriolet Sport-Roadster Long wheelbase (from 1934: 4-door ”Pullman-Limousine” 6-seat “Landaulet” (cabriolet-style folding roof for third row passengers only) Torpedo bodied 6-seat “Tourenwagen” 4-door long ”Limousine” (sedan) Cabriolets (long bodied - a choice of several types) |
Layout | FR layout |
Powertrain | |
Engine | 1,961 cc I6 |
Dimensions | |
Wheelbase | 2,700 mm (110 in) or 3,050 mm (120 in) |
Length | 4,060 mm (160 in) - 4,550 mm (179 in) |
Width | 1,630 mm (64 in) |
Height | 1,580 mm (62 in) |
Chronology | |
Predecessor | Mercedes-Benz W02 |
Successor | Mercedes-Benz W143 |
The Mercedes-Benz W 21 was a six-cylinder passenger car launched in 1933 using the name Mercedes-Benz Typ 200.[1] It was one of several Mercedes-Benz models known, in its own time, as the Mercedes-Benz 200 (or sometimes, in this case, as the Mercedes-Benz Typ(e) 200) and is therefore in retrospect more commonly referred to using its Mercedes-Benz works number, “W21”.
The car was a development upmarket from the manufacturer's W15, itself introduced two years earlier.[1] The W21 replaced the Mercedes-Benz W02 (in its own day known as the Mercedes-Benz Typ(e) 200 “Stuttgart”) which the company had been manufacturing since 1928.