Mercedes-Benz W02

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Mercedes-Benz Typ 8/38 PS / Typ Stuttgart 200

(W 02)

Mercedes-Benz 8/38 PS (1927)

Overview

Manufacturer Daimler-Benz AG

Also called 1926-33 Mercedes-Benz 8/38 PS

1929-33: Mercedes-Benz Typ Stuttgart 200

1929-33: Mercedes-Benz W02

Production 1926–1933

16,956 cars

Assembly Stuttgart, Germany

Body and chassis

Body style Torpedo-bodied "Tourenwagen"

2- & 4-door "Limousine" (sedan/saloon)

Cabriolets

Layout FR layout

Powertrain
 Engine 1,988 cc In line six-cylinder sidevalve engine

Dimensions

Wheelbase 2,810 mm (111 in)

Length 4,060 mm (160 in) - 4,375 mm (172.2 in)

Width 1926-29: 1,680 mm (66 in)

1929-33: 1,710 mm (67 in)

Height 1,800 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]