The Mercedes-Benz E-Class is one of the world’s most popular luxury cars, and a fine taxi too, but what does the E stand for, if anything?
The car range we know today as the E-Class only got that name in 1993 when the W124 series cars were facelifted and rechristened. Prior to this, the W124 and its predecessors were simply referred to by either the model code or its engine displacement derived name, for example 200T or 220E.
The E suffix, which was used throughout the Mercedes-Benz lineup, stood for Einspritzmotor or Fuel-injected Engine.
It wasn’t until 1993 that E switched from being a suffix, to denote the then common and almost standard fuel injection system, to being a model name.
Technically nowadays E doesn’t stand for anything, it’s just a little that comes way before the larger S-Class and after the smaller C-Class.
