One hundred years ago (May 1914...!) , seven years after Rolls Royce was acclaimed 'Best Car in the World' by Autocar magazine, the UK distributor of Mercedes came with nearly the same words: 'World's Best Car' attaching these to their superior 80-90HP models, available upon request as six cylinder with cardan drive or four cylinder with chaindrive. Obviously they wanted to wake up the Rolls-Royce following. And no matter what you think of Mercedes as alternative to Rolls-Royce, the german car is a statement indeed. Still interesting to note that so few of theze cars were sold or survived. Price was a 'modest' GBP 1200 and at a small extra of only GBP 85 it came with full electric package. Plenty of dealers from London to Edinborough. And finally delivery within a month after order! So why didn't they sell plenty more of these?
Too costly? Too big? Not british enough?