Mercedes-Benz W187

The Mercedes-Benz W187, sold as the 220, is a luxury car that Mercedes-Benz produced from 1951 to 1955, first as a four-door saloon and two-door cabriolet and from 1954 also as a two-door coupe. It was introduced at the Frankfurt Motor Show in April 1951 alongside the W186 300, and together they were the first Mercedes-Benz cars since the war to return to six-cylinder engines. Its new 2.2 litre M180 single overhead camshaft six produced 80 PS and became the basis of a long line of Mercedes-Benz sixes. The saloon looked old-fashioned beside the newer Ponton cars and ran only a little over three years, ending in May 1954 when the W105 219 and W180 220a replaced it, while the cabriolets and coupe continued until August 1955.