В середине 1980 года завершается производство первого S-класса. Всего было выпущено 473 035 автомобилей. Если учесть, что Нефтяной кризис 1973 года совпал с началом выпуска автомобиля, то успех производства такого масштаба особо впечатляет, благодаря высокому качеству и экспорту по всему миру. Car W116-the first official of the S-class, which appeared in August 1972[11]. The car was radically different from its , the exterior design was more masculine, but sporty, and will continue on all car models until the mid-1990s. Initially, the family included four models-six-cylinder 280S, 280SE and eight-cylinder 350SE and 450SE.

A year later, there were models with a long base V116 . In 1978, there is a unique model 300SD with which was produced only for export to the United States and Canada, at the same time in 78-m to year on the top-version of the 450SEL 116 series, the first in the world installed anti-lock braking system. Its cost at first was extremely high and reached 10% of the price of a very expensive car. In the middle of 1980 the of the first S-class was completed. A total of 473,035 vehicles were produced. If we consider that the oil crisis of 1973 coincided with the beginning of of the car, the success of of this scale is , with high quality and export to all over the world.

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