Mercedes-Benz W105

The Mercedes-Benz W105 is a four-door executive car that Daimler-Benz built from 1956 to 1959 and sold as the Mercedes-Benz Typ 219. It was intended as an intermediate, no-frills six-cylinder model, and was made by combining the front of the larger 220 series, including its 2.2 litre straight-six M180 engine, with the shorter and simpler cabin of the four-cylinder 180 and 190. The result is a wheelbase and overall length shorter than the 220 S but longer than the 190, and the clearest outward sign is the shorter, single-window rear doors of the smaller car. Inside it used the simpler instruments of the 180 and bakelite trim in place of wood, and it shared the same boot. The Ponton body shape had first appeared in 1953 on the entry-level W120 180, and the 219 was replaced in the line-up by the 220 S version of the 220 a.