FIVE DOOMEDATTEMPTS TO REINVENT THE PAGODA
The Pagoda’s elegant styling wasa quantum leap in Mercedes design language after the outgoing model’s bulbous, baroque wing-line and heavyuse of chrome.Its bold horizontal lines, slimmer profile and light, airy, highly glazed cockpit moved the sports model into a more user-friendly and safer era. Such brilliance is hard to improve on, but a selection of unusual attempts were made,and acouple of them were even built.