Mercedes-Benz W21

Mercedes-Benz W 21
Mercedes-Benz 200 W21 4-door long version “Limousine” (1935)
Overview
ManufacturerMercedes-Benz
Also calledMercedes-Benz Typ(e) 200
Production1933–1936
15,622 units
AssemblyStuttgart, Germany
Body and chassis
ClassMid-size luxury car
Body styleStandard 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)
LayoutFR layout
Powertrain
Engine1,961 cc I6
Dimensions
Wheelbase2,700 mm (110 in) or
3,050 mm (120 in)
Length4,060 mm (160 in) -
4,550 mm (179 in)
Width1,630 mm (64 in)
Height1,580 mm (62 in)
Chronology
PredecessorMercedes-Benz W02
SuccessorMercedes-Benz W143
Mercedes-Benz 200 W21 Pullman-Limousine (1935)
Mercedes-Benz 200 W21 cabriolet (1935)

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.

  1. ^ a b Oswald, p. 241