It is an attempt to make two model lines into one, a bit like today's platform strategies. Only at that time complete car parts also remain outside the same from 190D to 300 and differ only in the front car. But then one makes every effort to differentiate the two more expensive versions 220S and 220SE in appearance. Since the larger headlamps with fog lamps are combined under a lens. The bumpers are duplicated and the rear lights simultaneously larger and more pretentious framed accordingly.

This is the (economic miracle) period in which a customer wants to see/show something for all that money. The world should notice that he has done it. Thus, also the interior clearly distincts. Wood and chrome lift significantly the atmosphere. A later, barely reached thickness of the back rests with chrome-plated reclining seat devices and head restraints, whose fittings are drawn around the upper end of the backrest. Real wood instead of Bakelite also adorns the dashboard. However, the roll tachometer, held for modern at that time is with all tail fins the same.

That the larger front end would not essential have been necessary at least at the 220, the 230 demonstrates, whose six-cylinder engine was packed in the 14.5 cm shorter engine compartment of the four-cylinder. It is considered a hot tip of understatement, because all in all less conspicuous and faster than the 220S with carburetor and also than the 220SE with injection. For sporty breakthrough it lacks the floor-mounted shifter until 1964, although with the usual column-mounted shifter also are possible steering wheel circuit switching are remarkably remarkably low switching pauses.

The W108 is the continuation of the tail fin without tail fin. It is now recognized that this was just one fashion, swashing over from U.S. and returns back to normal mudguards at the rear, which Mercedes anyway described only as 'direction finding bars' for easier overview to the rear of the vehicle. This initiates, together with the introduction of prime/eight generation the separation of middle and upper class since 1968. 04/12