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The Mercedes-Benz Ponton was car manufacturer Daimler-Benz's first entirely new model in the post World War 2 period. The Mercedes-Benz Ponton was launched in July 1953 and in the subsequent 9 years Daimler-Benz would go on to produce over half a million Mercedes-Benz Ponton cars until production ceased at the end of 1962.
Daimler-Benz in the immediate post World War 2 period
As one of Germany's major industrial complexes Daimler-Benz was the focus of intensive allied bombing which which left 60 years of Daimler-Benz industry in ruins and resulted in the Daimler-Benz board issuing a statement saying that the company ceased to exist in 1945. Despite this the company had by 1946 managed to start producing small pre-war designed low-powered vehicles that found a market in the post war austerity period. These early steps at rebuilding the Daimler-Benz company laid the foundation for a newly designed car to be introduced:the Mercedes-Benz Ponton.
The Mercedes-Benz Ponton era
Autumn 1953 arrived and the public could get their first view of the Mercedes-Benz Ponton W120 a four cylinder sedan, built with comfort and safety in mind. Over the next 3 years development continued as 3 different body styles, a sedan, a roadster and a cabriolet were released. These Mercedes-Benz Ponton models came with different engines including the 4 or 6 cylinder sedan, the 4 cylinder roadster and the 6 cylinder cabriolet
Design Innovation
In safety terms the Mercedes-Benz Ponton design team challenged the prevailing thinking at the time that safe cars had to be rigid bodied. The company wanted a unitary car body and the design team produced what became known as the three box design: a rigid passenger compartment with crumble zones to the front and rear. The crumple zone design was patented by Daimler-Benz, and proved to be a milestone in car design.
Origin of the name 'Ponton'
Mercedes-Benz Ponton: 'Ponton' is the German word for pontoon, and the cars name refers to the post war styling trend of 'pontoon fenders', which subsequently became known as 'Ponton styling'
Ponton Series
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1957 | Mercedes-Benz 220 S
Mercedes-Benz - 220 S - 1957
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1957 | Mercedes-Benz 220 S Cabriolet
Mercedes-Benz - 220 S Cabrio - 1957
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1959 | Mercedes-Benz 220 SE Cabriolet
1959 Mercedes-Benz 220SE Ponton Cabriolet '59
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1960 | Mercedes-Benz 220 SE
Mercedes-Benz 220 Coupe
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1959 | Mercedes-Benz 220 S
Mercedes-Benz 220 220S Ponton Top Condition Driver (1959)
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1958 | Mercedes-Benz 220 SE
Mercedes-Benz 220 Sedan
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1957 | Mercedes-Benz 220 S Cabriolet
Mercedes-Benz 220 S Ponton Cabrio in schönster Farbkombination
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1959 | Mercedes-Benz 190
perfekter Zustand
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1961 | Mercedes-Benz 220 SE Cabriolet
1961 Mercedes-Benz 220 SE Ponton Cabriolet '61
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1959 | Mercedes-Benz 220 SE Cabriolet
Neuwagenniveau
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1959 | Mercedes-Benz 220 SE
Coupe Ponton tetto apribile
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1962 | Mercedes-Benz 180 c
180 D Bj. 02 - 1962
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1960 | Mercedes-Benz 220 SE Cabriolet
Restored by Arthur Bechtel in 2019
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1957 | Mercedes-Benz 190
Spanish car Madrid Plates in original preserved condition