Broken Dreams: Mercedes C111. A Laboratory for Tomorrow

The end of the 60s was marked by great technological innovations and achievements for humanity, such as the Apollo 11 moon landing in 1969. The period was also a particularly fertile one for cars, with considerable experimentation happening among the manufacturers at the time. After shelving the SLX project, the new board at Mercedes gave the green light to a series of experimental cars to develop new technical solutions. The code name within the company was C101, later changed to C111 to avoid legal disputes with Peugeot who had registered and patented the three-digit acronyms with a zero in the middle for its models.