Mercedes-Benz W08

The Mercedes-Benz W08 was a large luxury car from Daimler-Benz, introduced in autumn 1928 as the company's first eight-cylinder passenger car. Sold under several type numbers, it stayed in production with modifications and upgrades until late summer 1939, making it the longest-lived Mercedes-Benz model of the 1920s and 1930s. It is also known as the Typ Nürburg, a name taken from the village of Nürburg and the Nürburgring racetrack opened in 1927, where the newly merged Mercedes-Benz brand won the first Eifelrennen and the German Grands Prix of 1927 and 1928 with the six-cylinder W06. The first Typ Nürburg 460 used a 4,622 cc straight-eight side-valve engine and an unfashionably tall overslung chassis, and found few customers until Hans Nibel gave it an underslung chassis for 1929.