Mercedes-Benz 300 Messwagen, 1960.
Messwagen translates to ‘measuring car’ and that’s what this one-off Mercedes-Benz is. A wagon created for the purposes of collecting data on other cars.
Built in 1960, the Measuring Car is based on a Mercedes-Benz 300 chassis. It packs a 3.0-litre dual-carburetted straight-six producing 118kW. It needed all of those kilowatts to move around equipment that was simply too heavy and cumbersome to move and assemble otherwise. Despite being a unique solution to a tricky data-gathering problem, Mercedes-Benz only built O N E single example of the Messwagen. They wouldn’t build another fully in-house station wagon until 1977.
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Mercedes-Benz 300d Versuchsbegleitwagen, 1960 - mb143.ru
