More videos about the Mercedes-Benz R129.

Not only is this my personal favorite generation of the Mercedes-Benz SL Roadster, it’s also the generation that Arthur and his parents buy in the Arthur movie for adults with the M104 inline-6 gasoline/petrol engine.

This car was based off the Mercedes-Benz W124, and it’s floorpan is a shortened version of that of the W124 to that of the length of a typical roadster.

This generation of the Mercedes-Benz SL Roadster was the very last to be overbuilt and overengineered. Each generation of Mercedes-Benz model produced around this time was the last to be overbuilt and overengineered as Daimler-Benz adopted a new strategy where quantity over quality was the name of the game, no matter how shoddy the quality of each vehicle produced from that point forward would be.

Daimler-Benz found themselves in a weaker state to compete against Toyota, Nissan, and Acura’s luxury car brands Especially when Toyota had developed a very high-tech, precise; and lower-cost way to produce each Lexus LS that had rolled off the assembly line in the Tahara, Japan assembly plant, thus; forever revolutionizing the way luxury automobiles would be produced.

As you may be aware of if you’ve been following this blog, personally, I’d rather that Daimler-Benz continued to overbuild and overengineer their cars as they always have until the late 1990’s.