This makes the 240D we spotted a W115, hailing from the mid 1970s and produced between 1973 and 1974—right before the W123 arrived to pick up the baton.

Designer David Obendorfer has taken the W115 and imagined it for today with the Icon E Concept, which – if it weren’t just a computer-generated animation – would be built upon an E-Class ...

The Mercedes-Benz ‘W115’ sedan is one of the car manufacturer’s most iconic models, and thanks to car designer David Obendorfer, has been re-imagined as a modern-day concept.