Mercedes-Benz W114/W115

The Mercedes-Benz W114 and W115 are ranges of front-engine, rear-drive, five-passenger executive cars and coupes that Mercedes-Benz introduced in 1968 to succeed the W110 and built until model year 1976, when the W123 arrived. The W114 had six-cylinder engines and was sold as the 230.6, 250 and 280, while the W115 had four-cylinder engines and was sold as the 200, 220, 230.4 and 240, with a D for the diesels. They were marketed as the New Generation models and earned the nickname Strich Acht, or stroke eight, from the /8 on their ID plates. The range introduced the semi-trailing rear arm suspension used in all new Mercedes-Benz passenger cars until the 1980s, the first five-cylinder diesel OM617, and Bosch D-Jetronic fuel injection on the 250 CE. Coupes arrived in 1969, with 67,048 built against 1,852,008 saloons, and a 1976 W115 240 D taxi in Greece passed 4.6 million kilometres.