A one-of-a-kind Mercedes S-Class Estate is for sale in England. The car is a modified Mercedes S 600 L W140 estate with a 6-liter V12 engine under the hood.
Photo: DK Engineering
The Mercedes S-Class Estate is the ultimate form of luxury: generous interior space, a spacious trunk combined with the refinement and torque of the 6-liter V12 engine. The example, which is featured on the DK Engineering website and for sale at an auction organized by Carhuna, was built by Falcon Design based on a Mercedes S 600 L from Japan.
For the body modification, Falcon Design took the roof and rear hatchback from the E-Class Estate S210. Since the rear seat is fixed in this example, there was no need to move the gas tank.
The rear seats are electrically adjustable, and the front seats can be operated by rear passengers. This car appears to be the only Mercedes S-Class Estate with a left-side steering wheel. The example offered for sale is painted in Polar white (149U) and has Designo Green (X08) leather upholstery and Designo Green (W07) inserts.
Working under the hood is the M120 6.0-liter V12 V12 engine, also used by the Pagani Zonda C12, and this Mercedes S-Class estate is one of the few V12-powered estate cars in the world.
Only 18 units worldwide
There are only 18 Mercedes S-Class Estate examples worldwide, all modified by AMG. Of these, 15 were commissioned by the Sultan of Brunei, who has an impressive collection of exotic cars. The other three have never been seen because they have never changed ownership and haven’t been seen much at auction.
All the modified examples of the Mercedes S-Class Estate that exist in the world are based on a Mercedes S 600 L (W140), and all have the V12 engine under the bonnet, as all the VIN series of these models indicate. To work on the modifications, AMG enlisted the help of coachbuilders. All examples have the roof and rear part taken from the E-Class Estate S210. It is straightforward to see if you look at the curved shape of the C-pillar. Also taken from the E-Class Estate S210 are the rear screen, and from the E-Class Estate W124, the rear subframe, which comes with a flatter tank that allows the rear seats to be folded down. As mentioned above, the example in these pictures has a fixed rear seat.
There have been other attempts to modify the S-Class into an estate. Coachbuilders Cadform and Binz modified a standard wheelbase S-Class with a 5-liter V8 engine, to which they adapted the roof and rear end from the W124 E-Class Estate, but only one example was built.
