Mercedes-Benz 600 V

The Mercedes-Benz 600 V, internal type W 148 and also planned as the 600 K, was a prototype luxury car that Daimler-Benz designed in 1941 and 1942. The company had considered a large twelve-cylinder car shortly before the Second World War and had already built a Type 540 K with a V12 engine in 1937. The prototypes of 1941 and 1942 were meant to succeed the Type 770. The 600 V was a large touring car on a 3,780 or 3,880 millimetre wheelbase, with Pullman saloon, tourer, six-seat saloon and cabriolet bodies planned, but only twelve test cars were built. Its 80 degree V12 of 6,020 cubic centimetres produced 170 horsepower, or 125 kilowatts, and took the car up to 160 kilometres per hour. Some prototypes had a supercharged engine, the 600 K, which gave 240 horsepower and 170 kilometres per hour.