1977 Mercedes Benz 450 SEL original vintage advertisement & 4pgs. Road Test W/Specs.
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The magnificent Mercedes-Benz 450 SEL: It’s a world unto itself.
The Mercedes-Benz 450SEL: For all its passengers - a world unto itself. (Light alloy wheels available at added cost.)
With its price of more than $24,000, it’s reasonable to expect that everyone — driver and each and every passenger — should enjoy every moment spent in the Mercedes-Benz 450SEL. Everyone does.
Because within its artfully sculpted contours, the 450SEL conceals an extraordinary array of creature comforts. Yet here is one car that appeals as strongly to the intellect as it does to the senses. Read on. Some surprises may be in order.
The Mercedes-Benz 450SEL is the contemporary version of the classic touring car. The automotive embodiment of elegance.
To be sure, it is a driver’s automobile, replete with dozens of stunningly sophisticated engineering developments. Most of them are unique to the 450SEL. But the 450SEL is also a passenger’s automobile, in which a host of biotechnological ideas are beautifully translated into human terms. The result is pleasure… pure pleasure, whether you take the wheel or simply enjoy the ride.
Appeals to the senses
You enter the Mercedes-Benz 450SEL through doors, front or rear, that open a full 36 inches wide. Close the doors and you’re wrapped in a sure, secure and satistyingly luxurious environment. You savor satiny, premium leather — or, if it’s more to your taste, rich velour. You settle into wide, anatomically correct seats, whose individual suspension is actually tuned to the car's own suspension. You notice that all interior surfaces are padded and finished for safety as well as sumptuousness.
Under way… silence. The passenger compartment is sealed against engine and road noise as well as heat or cold. Four kinds of sound-absorbing materials surround the entire compartment.
You defy the elements with a Climate Control system designed to automatically maintain the precise temperature you prefer at any-setting between 65° and 85°. The system also defogs, defrosts, and de-humidifies.Twelve strategically-placed vents — including front doors that actually "breathe” — assure proper ventilation in every area of the 450SEL Sedan.
Synergism and human touches
You observe the world outside through an expanse of tinted glass. If you are a passenger, unobtrusively sited rear reading lamps let you read or work at night without interfering with the driver’s vision. Adjustable stereo speakers bathe you in sound at the touch of a switch. You cruise even the roughest roads with confidence, the result of the 450SEL’s synergistic combination of independent suspension, 116.7-inch wheelbase and welded — not bolted — monocoque construction.
As you ride, you appreciate why 450SEL’s must be assembled at so slow a rate. Time is lavished on hundreds of hand operations. Human touches, loving attention to detail that makes the 450SEL an automobile few — if any — automobiles in the world can even hope to match.
Appeals to the intellect
The 450SEL Sedan comes to you with a complement of safety, performance and comfort features — as standard equipment — that is almost unheard of these days. Your Mercedes-Benz Dealer can give you all of the surprising details.
The 450SEL is a sensibly complete car. It's fully-equipped right from the start, and priced to reflect its essential honesty. What few items of optional equipment you might consider adding have more to do with your own sense of aesthetics, rather than engineering. Even so, the list is startlingly short. It includes such ultra-refined touches as an electric sunroof, heated seats, light-alloy wheels or rear-seat headrests.
The Mercedes-Benz 450SEL is virtually a limited-edition automobile. Only 5,392 will be imported into the U.S. in all of calendar year 1977. And only 16,001 have been available in America since its introduction in 1973.
There is another advantage to the 450SEL that deserves your thought. Retained value.
For the automobile industry, retained value is the ultimate test of quality. As you’d expect, year after year, Mercedes-Benz has achieved an unparalleled record in this vital test. Based on the average official used car prices over the past five years alone, Mercedes-Benz holds its value better than any other make of luxury car made in America. Any other make.
Given the extraordinary attributes of the 450SEL, it seems only logical that this car should enjoy remarkable resale value indeed.
Applying the Golden Rule
When you buy a Mercedes-Benz 450SEL, you do unto others — magnificently — as you would have them do unto you. The 450SEL is a very special world unto itself. For you... for every passenger. Contact your Mercedes-Benz Dealer. A convincing demonstration is easy to arrange.
HANDLING: A Mercedes-Benz forte for decades, brought to a new standard of excellence in the 450SEL Touring Sedan.
COMFORT: In engineering, interior dimensions, quality of materials and craftsmanship the 450SEL offers superb comfort for all its passengers.
SAFETY: Over one hundred separate safety elements and systems are combined in the 450SEL.
Standard Equipment in the Mercedes-Benz 450SEL:
1. Climate Control.
2. Armrests, front and rear.
3. Automatic Antenna.
4. Automatic Transmission.
5. Breakerless Transistorized Ignition System.
6. Central Locking System.
7. Cruise Control.
8. 3-Speed Electric Windsheild Wipers.
9. Electrically Heated Rear Window.
10. C.I.S. Fuel-injection System.
11. Energy Absorbing Front and Rear Bumpers.
12. Four 3-Point Inertia-Reel Safety Belts.
13. Halogen Fog Lights.
14. Fully Reclining and Adjustable Front Bucket Seats.
15. Leather or Velour Upholstered Seats.
16. Standard Metallic Paint.
17. Parcel Nets.
18. Plasticized Undercoating.
19. Power Brake System with 4-Wheel Disc Brakes.
20. Power Steering.
21. Radio (Becker Mexico AM/FM Stereo with Tape Deck Cassette Player.)
22. Rear Reading Lamps.
23. Steel-Belted Radial Tires.
24. Steering Lock.
25. Tachometer Quartz Chronometer.
26. Tinted Glass (all around.)
27. Velour Carpeting.
28. Trunk Carpeting.
Mercedes-Benz
Engineered like no other car in the world.
©Mercedes-Benz, 1977
1977 Mercedes-Benz 450 SEL 6.9 - Road Test - 4 pgs. w/specifications
For those with the means and - more important - the skill, a car for all season.
SPECIFICATIONS:
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Size: Ad - Full Double Page (2) Separate pages - 8
inches x 11 inches - 20 cm x 28 cm (each page)
Road Test -
Full Page (4) Separate pages - Reverse Printed - 8
inches x 11 inches - 20 cm x 28 cm (each page)
ALL SIZES ARE APPROXIMATE DUE TO CROPPING
Country - USA
Grading - Excellent, normal toning (yellow-copper tint due to age.)
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