Excerpts from the book:

While the new Mercedes 220 a ponton was like the 180 before him a bow to modern (aka American) design, it was not a copy of American ideas, when it came to the engine or road-holding manners. In this respect the car was a true Mercedes-Benz: giving the customer supremacy in quality, performance and agility. While the front suspension and sub frame were shared with its smaller brother, the new rear suspension was a copy of the single-joint swing axle with a low pivot point, which had been originally developed for the W196 Formula One racing car. Not a bad decision and far superior to what Daimler-Benz had offered when it introduced the Mercedes 180 ponton one year earlier>>>

<<<Together with the longer front and the differently designed hood this made the Mercedes 220 a look far more impressive, especially from the side. And once you had a chance to actually have a seat inside the car, you instantly knew that this car could definitely NOT be mistaken for the lesser version. The amount of real wood that had been applied to the dashboard and windowsills can only be described as very liberal. Even British Jaguars did not have more to offer. And craftsmanship was again a notch up to the already impressive 180 ponton and the previous Mercedes 220>>>