Mercedes-Benz
600 Pullman Landaulet, 4 doors (W 100)

Why it matters

The four-door 600 Pullman Landaulet was the standard version of the Mercedes-Benz landaulet: rear seats facing each other and a folding hood reaching to the front edges of the rear doors. It never appeared in a price list, and the archive counts 32 of this version between 1965 and 1981. Artcurial credits the design of the 600 to Paul Bracq.

How rare is it?

Six separate kinds of rarity – never combined into one number.

Each kind of rarity is rated separately and never combined.

Production

Every figure says what it counts.

Independent counts (e.g. engine and colour) are never combined into a calculated figure. Surviving examples are never presented as original production.

History

The archive lists a production period from May 1965 to March 1981. Bonhams describes chassis 100.015-12-000237 as the first landaulet produced: it was registered on 13 May 1965 to the Untertürkheim vehicle pool, which loaned cars to the West German government, and may have been used for the state visit of Queen Elizabeth II that year. The same house puts the total at 59 landaulets built on the long Pullman chassis, 49 left-hand drive and 10 right-hand drive, whereas the archive gives 32 four-door and 26 six-door.

In September 1965 a four-door Pullman landaulet was built for Pope Paul VI with a raised roof, extended rear doors and a raised rear floor; it served three popes and returned to Stuttgart in 1985, and it is now in the Mercedes-Benz Museum. Artcurial describes a 1971 car as one of 21 built with four doors, a one-third-length hood and left-hand drive, supplied new to a presidential garage in West Africa, and Bonhams describes chassis 100.015-12-001879, built in June 1971 and sent to Dakar.

Technical specifications

Engine

Transmission & drivetrain

Chassis, body & dimensions

Performance

“Not yet verified” means no source has been checked for that value yet. Nothing is estimated to fill a gap.

Identification guide

How to tell an original from a replica or later conversion.

The factory type is 100.015, on the 3900 mm Pullman wheelbase with a length of 6240 mm and a kerb weight of 2710 kg. The standard four-door landaulet has a hood that ends at the front edges of the rear doors; a long-hood variant ends at the middle partition. Cars delivered to heads of state carried individual equipment, so the Mercedes-Benz data card (Datenkarte) is the key document: Artcurial and Bonhams both rely on it to confirm delivery country and specification, and the Bonhams car data card shows that its engine was replaced.

Sources

Each number links to the exact facts it supports.

1. 1
   600 Pullman landaulet (4 doors) / W 100, 1965 - 1981 Level A Mercedes-Benz Public Archive (Classic M@RS)

   • Units produced : 32
   • Engine type : M 100 / 100.980 (Specifications)
   • Number of cylinders / arrangement : 8 / 90° V (Specifications)
   • Total displacement : 6332 cc (tax classification: 6289 cc) (Specifications)
   • Bore x Stroke : 103 x 95 mm (Specifications)
   • Compression ratio : 9.0 (Specifications)
   • Valve operation : 1 overhead camshaft per cylinder bank (Specifications)
   • Fuel system : manifold injection ... Bosch 8-plunger injection pump (Specifications)
   • Rated output : 250 hp at 4000 rpm (Specifications)
   • Rated torque : 51 mkg at 2800 rpm (Specifications)
   • Gearing : 4-speed automatic transmission (Specifications)
   • Gear ratios : I. 3.98; II. 2.46; III. 1.58; IV. 1.0; R. 4.15 (Specifications)
   • Final drive ratio : 3.23 (Specifications)
   • Driven wheels : rear wheels (Specifications)
   • Frame design : floor assembly / steel unit body (Specifications)
   • Front-wheel suspension : double wishbone; Front springs : air-spring bellows (Specifications)
   • Rear-wheel suspension : single-joint swing axle with level control (Specifications)
   • hydraulic dual-circuit brake system with pneumatic booster ... four-wheel disc brakes (Specifications)
   • Steering : recirculating-ball power steering (Specifications)
   • Wheelbase : 3900 mm (Specifications)
   • Length : 6240 mm (Specifications)
   • Width : 1950 mm (Specifications)
   • Height : 1500 mm (Specifications)
   • Front / rear track : 1587 / 1581 mm (Specifications)
   • Kerb weight : 2710 kg (Specifications)
   • Maximum speed : 205 km/h (Specifications)
   • Acceleration 0-100 km/h : 9.7 s (Specifications)
   • Fuel tank: position / capacity : in the rear / 112 l (Specifications)
   • Fuel consumption : 17.8 l (Specifications)

   Accessed 2026-11-12
2. 2
   Mercedes-Benz Classic M@RS archive – 600 Pullman landaulet (4 doors) Level A

   • 32 4-door Pullman landaulets

   Accessed 2026-11-12