Best to worst, IMO:

1. W112
2. W108
3. W111
4. W128
5. W180
6. W116
7. W140
8. W126
9.
10.
11.


......

223. W220
224. W221

Sorry, I had to leave a big gap due to the huge step down they took.

*Puts on flame suit*

I do not know these enough to be sure, the info about the coupé is the result of what I read on wikipedia: the coupé was the only one to have a 1999 as last year

This needs changing to the year of release then, is this the 94 model?
http://www.imcdb.org/vehicle_63827-Mercedes-Benz-S-Klasse-W140-1999.html

It seems that only the coupé was 1999

Can someone tell me the exact date the W140 stopped production, we have some 1999 listed W140s on the site and i'm not sure about them?

I like the W116, W126, W140 and W221.
I really don't like the W220, i don't know what they were doing when they designed that. I don't know much about the older ones, but i do know they looked beautiful.

Well S-Class started in 1994 when the W140 models reversed from say, 600SEL to S600L but the cars before this were really predecessors, just with different badging. I'm glad they changed it, because i found it rather confusing. I used to think the W123 was the old C-class until i realised the "E" was for E-Class.

The S-Klasse peaked @ W140 and then went downhill. I must say the W220 has grown on me a lot after those years, it looks like a W126 after an extreme facelift to me (and I also like the W126 obviously). The W221 is a blasphemy and a reason not to revere Daimler anymore.

BTW, the S-Klasse nameplate only started quite recently, some of the cars in the poll aren't legitimate S-Klasses.

I thought some of you might like this picture that i found:

I guess we all love the 1991-1999 W140