Daimler DS420 Magazine articles (non English) 1990-present

 

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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).

 
 
TestImFond p1. (26kB)    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.

 
TestImFond p3. (18kB) TestImFond p4. (18kB)    TestImFond p5. (17kB) TestImFond p6. (16kB)
 
 
 
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.

    Auto Capital editorial     Auto Capital p1.
 
Auto Capital p3.     Auto Capital p5.
 
Auto Capital p7.     Auto Capital p9.     Auto Capital p10.
 
 
 
AutoBild p1. (14kB) AutoBild p2. (14kB)     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
 
AutoBild p3. (24kB)    AutoBild p5. (17kB)
 
 
 
Autoweek p1. (72kB)    Autoweek p2. (66kB)
 
Autoweek p3. (54kB)   

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.

   AutoRevue p1. (12.4kB) AutoRevue p2. (12.8kB)
 
AutoRevue p3. (14.3kB)    AutoRevue p4. (13.2kB)    AutoRevue p5. (11kB) AutoRevue p6. (14kB)
 
 
 
BritishCars p1. (26kB)   

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.

 
BritishCars p3. (16kB) BritishCars p4. (18kB)    BritishCars p5. (13kB) BritishCars p6. (15kB)
 
 
 

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.

LichterDerNacht p1. (25kB) LichterDerNacht p3. (12kB)
 
LichterDerNacht p4. (18kB) LichterDerNacht p5. (17kB) LichterDerNacht p6. (16kB) LichterDerNacht p7. (18kB)
 
 
 
MothersFinest (14kB)    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.

RuoteClassiche p1. (32kB) RuoteClassiche p3. (13.5kB) RuoteClassiche p4. (13kB)
 
RuoteClassiche p5. (15kB) RuoteClassiche p6. (15kB) RuoteClassiche p7. (14kB) RuoteClassiche p8. (17kB)
 
 
 
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.

   Un Siècle d'Automobiles, 2003. (17kB)    Un Siècle d'Automobiles, 2003. (17kB)
 
 
 
Kolvenbach p1. (28kB) Kolvenbach p3. (14kB)
       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.

 
Kolvenbach p4. (15kB) Kolvenbach p5. (15kB) Kolvenbach p6. (16kB) Kolvenbach p7. (14kB)
 
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