Daimler DS420 Magazine articles (non English) 1990-present

L'ultima regina
Author: Alex Roggero
Magazine: Auto Capital
Date of publication:
N.9, September 1990
Language: Italian
The article features a UK-registered car A200FLR, and has a photo of car B94DOF.


Daimler DS420 Magazine articles (non English) 1990-present

This web page shows various magazine articles in French, Dutch, German and Italian. They are shown in chronological order from 1990-present. Another web page shows non-English magazine articles from 1968-1989. Also, there are parallel web pages with English language articles 1968-1986 and 1987-present.

Click on a page to obtain a medium size view. With that medium size view, a menu of choices appears: step to the other pages of the article, get a large view, or get a contrast enhanced view on the text (which gives much better readability, but ruins the photographs).

			Der Grosse Daimler: nur mit Chauffeur Test im Fond Author: Paul Simsa Magazine: MOT Date of publication: 16/1990 Language: German The article features Germany-registered car HG-JD40.

			Fährt der Lord bald Ford? Vergleich - Chauffeurs-Limousinen Daimler Limousine gegen Coleman Milne Author: Christian Wüst Magazine: Auto Bild Date of publication: 22 December 1990 Language: German

Brits tot het bittere einde
Author: Christian Wüst, Lex Vranken
Magazine: AutoWeek
Date of publication: (#8), Feb. 22, 1991
Language: Dutch

The AutoWeek magazine bought the rights for the German article, but published a slightly different main photo. Also, the text was rewritten to eliminate all references to Coleman Milne.

The small article (left) is from the AutoWeek of Dec. 21-28 1990, and announces the end of the production for the Limousine. Note that the photo is a colour version of press photo DA1321, shown on the Press Photographs page of this web site.

Am Ende eines guten Tages
Author: Georg Kacher
Magazine: Auto Revue (Österreich/Austria)
Date of publication: 3/1993
Language: German

Two month before the publication of this article, the same author (and photographer) wrote an article on the same theme in the English language magazine Car. That article features the same demo limo (D800FHP) but has a totally different text. See it here.

Strange enough, this article states that the passengers on the occasional seats travel "opposite to the direction of driving", even though the photograph on page 3 shows the contrary.

Daimler Limousine, God Save the Queen
Author: Marc Joly
Magazine: British Cars
Date of publication: (No.18), Dec/Jan 1995
Language: French

Belgian license plate ZCH195, but it also carries a Monaco (MC) sticker on the back.

Lichter der Nacht
Author: Bernd Woytal
Magazine: Motor Klassik
Date of publication:
Jan. 1996
Language: German

Note that this car, HG-JD40, already appeared in a 1990 magazine article shown earlier on this page.

Mothers Finest
Author: Bernd Stegemann
Magazine: Auto Motor und Sport
Date of publication: (No. 13) 14 June 1996
Language: German

Londra - Bergamo Express
Author: Fulvio Zucco
Magazine: Ruote Classiche
Date of publication: (No.151) June 2001
Language: Italian

Featuring car CYJ739Y: Italian owned, with British license? The car was put up for sale almost immediately after this article was published, which triggered a few picky comments from the readers of this magazine.

Daimler DS 420 Limousine. L'ultime douairière
Magazine: Un Siècle d'Automobiles (Hachette)
Date of publication: (#110), 24/10/2003
Language: French

A run-of-the-mill article, no original photographs, all standard information.

There's a bloody hole in your car'
Author: Hans Lubberding
Magazine: British Car
Date of publication: June 2004
Language: Dutch

This article features the limo 92-DD-JH (car 1M2887) of Ben Kolvenbach from Beneden Leeuwen in The Netherlands. Ben runs a garage specialised in the maintenance of classic Jaguars, and has built himself the reputation of being "the best address in The Netherlands". He maintains my limos too.

1st row: Hi-class car, Daimler DS420'1987
Magazine: Hi-class
Date of publication: vol 24, no. 252, 2006
2nd row: Daimler DS420
Magazine: Thailand Classic Cycle - Car
3rd row: Daimler DS420
Magazine: Thaidriver magazine

Although the majority of our website-visitors will not be able
to read these texts in Thai language, the illustrations with these articles,
showing Pravut Kanchanawat from Bangkok, Thailand, look good.
More information is on Mr. Kanchanawat's Cars&Owners page
of this website.

«Sir, ich denke, ihr Auto passt nicht auf unsere Parkfelder»
Author: Zoran Mitrović
Magazine: Automobil Revue (Switzerland)
Date of publication: nr. 29, 16. juli 2008
Language: German

Zoran Mitrović from Bern in Switzerland describes how he bought a DS420 from Zenith Classics in Manchester, and drove it home.

magazine issue 49 fr magazine issue 49 nl The British publisher GE Fabbri devoted issue no. 49 of its popular fortnightly "James Bond Car Collection" magazine to the Daimler DS420 as a James Bond movie car. The magazine came with a diecast 1:43 scale model made by Universal Hobbies in China. The French edition appeared in November 2008, although the magazine itself bears no date. The German edition was published in November 2009, and the Dutch version early February 2010. The UK edition of this issue appeared in November 2008, one or two weeks before the French version. photo DA1321a - 1991

The magazine has 16 pages of which 8 have DS420 coverage, mainly photographic. Several parts of the text seem to have been taken from an older version of the Wikipedia entry on the DS420, including several inaccuracies that were present there (and have been corrected since). Jaguar press photo DA1321 in full colour is used as the centerfold image.

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