Mercedes-Benz W188

The Mercedes-Benz W188 was a two-door luxury sports tourer that Mercedes-Benz produced between 1951 and 1958 as the 300 S and, from 1955, the 300 Sc. It was the company's most expensive and exclusive car, hand-built and about 50 percent dearer than the four-door 300 Adenauer, and it was offered as a hard-topped coupe, a cabriolet and a roadster. It shared its straight-six engine, suspension and chassis with the 300 SL Gullwing, the 300 S using a 150 PS version of the 3.0 litre M186 with triple Solex carburettors and the 300 Sc a mechanically fuel-injected M199 of 175 horsepower. A total of 760 were built, 560 of them 300 S and 200 of them 300 Sc.