Piggybacking off the W126/C126's success, Mercedes-Benz introduced the next-gen S-Class with the W140 sedan and C140 coupe. Mercedes continuted selling and marketing the coupe as the S-Class Coupe ...

The good folks over at Car Design World (aka 'cardesignworld' on social media) tipped us off to this independent design ...

And there is a "regular" S560 model, which, despite its callback to the 560 nomenclature of the classic W126 ... S-Class Coupe and especially the Cabriolet are among our favorite Mercedes-Benz ...

Mercedes-Benz projected a number of scenes onto the relief to highlight the design's lines and lineage, including images of W189, W108 and W126 S-Class models. Aligning the images of the S-Class ...

Mercedes-Benz set out to restore the S-Class' place amongst the greatest sedans in the world ... the W223 is striving to move forward and look back simultaneously to the glory days of the seminal W126 ...