Originally Posted by alabbasi

I don't know, it had some pretty cool stuff that you could not find in an ordinary sedan of the era.

Hydraulic suspension (the French had it for ages but that was it)
Dry Sump - Racing application
ABS - I think it was the first car with it
Fuel injection

We need to remember that compared to every day cars, any MB was out of the ordinary and some features did not get adopted by other companies for years.

At college I drove a 1971 250CE for a few years. It has hard for my Ford and Vauxhall driving friends who had newish cars with no power steering, disk brakes all round, EFI and electric gizmos to accept that my 27 year old car did.

The cool thing about the 6.9 is that a lot of this stuff still works well even by today's standard. People tend to complain about the suspension but the reality is that those hydraulic shocks and spheres take ages to go bad and many of the 6.9's that are out there today still have the original suspension.