The Mercedes-Benz W18 was a six-cylinder automobile introduced as the Mercedes-Benz Typ 290 in 1933. It was a smaller-engined successor to the manufacturer’s Typ 350 / 370 Mannheim model.Oswald, pp. 244 & 245 In terms of the German auto-business of the 1930s it occupied a market position roughly equivalent to that filled by the Mercedes-Benz E-Class in the closing decades of the twentieth century.Oswald, p. 244 The W18 was replaced in 1937 by the manufacturer’s W142 (Typ 320).Oswald, p. 244
