Mercedes-Benz 600 W100 : The Dictator's Mercedes.

[@advaitkamatha_4438]

"People who had 600 almost always had an access to airfield, coz this has the loudest horn, which means you can call a air strike"- Jeremy Clarkson

[@duongnhdn]

At least it's not a Ford Zephyr with a chrome nose.

[@carlbirtles4518]

James May: “You’re either going to murder millions of people or die on the bog trying to get 500 cheeseburgers out your poo shoot.”

[@ebayseller37922]

I love how James leads Clarkson’s entrance with “here comes Reichsmarshal Göring.”

[@SWright1978]

Amazing video. Thank you! As an owner of multiple MBZ cars over the years (111, 113, 115, 124, 126 and 140) this just makes me sad when I look at the range of cars they offer today.

[@dukeofhaas]

It's so bloody annoying trying to listen to computer generated narration.

[@fotoralf]

I really cracked at "Pope John Paul Virgin Islands". 🤣

[@PhantomEagle..]

At first I liked the Mercedes-Benz 600 because of its style but after hearing the cars history and influence It's now my favorite luxury car of all time!

[@echonga]

Fair enough!

[@WSNO]

i have one of these that i found disassembled in a barn north of Warsaw. had it put back together by Mercedes-Benz themselves so they could witness what they turned me into first hand. this car changed me.....for the better

[@anthonymarlowe6986]

Mercedes Benz 600 is beautiful elegance timeless and ageless.

[@xminusone1]

What an amazing car. This is the car my dreams are made of. Some people prefer supercars, but theses older 600 are by far my personal favourite and would be the car I want to have if money was no object. I have too be happy with my small b250. The first one I has was a 1992 190E 2.6. Small but built like a tank. It was in 1995. I guess I have Albanian blood to absolutely love older Mercedes.

[@Msian-diablo]

the Merce Pullman was never owned by POL pot from Cambodia. but the Prince of Cambodia, Prince Norodom Sihanouk was know tohave one in the 1970, but dissapeared when the Khmer Rouge took over the nation.

[@char1737]

Coco Chanel had two 600s one in her French offices and one here in her New York offices and the singer Jay Kay ended up buying the French model. My Husky Achilles and I once sat in the backseat of a 600 Pullman and I streamed a song the spice by Eon on my iPad.

[@cradiecast8407]

You forgot about the Sultan of Brunie. Pretty sure he has one in his huge car collection.

[@BrownBoyCanadian]

Jeremy Clarkson: I have got a Bonner ( when pushing this car)

[@MikeSaw-z5e]

The most complicated car to restore Amazing over engineering car

[@kristoffermangila]

Concerning Jay Leno's Grosser, his is the only Grosser (that we know of) that has a supercharger, that's why his Grosser has the "Kompressor" nameplate on the trunklid.

[@user-no8ty6vz4o]

His Royal Highness The Sultan Of Johor, Malaysia owned 7 in total of his collection Mercedes 600 pullman. 4 (blue) & 3 (black). 2 of the black is Landaulet. He also used during his coronation.

[@TheAndrewlolz]

Taib Mahmood as well... 😆

[@user-no8ty6vz4o]

@@TheAndrewlolz Sultan Muhammad V also. He used it when became Agong. Black Mercedes 600 pullman with red interior.

[@user-no8ty6vz4o]

@@TheAndrewlolz only knew Taib Mahmud have a mercedes 300 sl gullwing, not 600 pullman.

[@shabbos-goy9407]

Only 7? He should have starved his subjects to abject ruin. Freeing up funds for perhaps another 10. One needs to have one's priorities in order.

[@s.s.p.9680]

​@@shabbos-goy9407Johor is rather rich and big.

[@siegfriedbarfuss9379]

Famous movie appearances could be added. Like James Bond etc

[@Bibekarj]

Our late King Birendra also had one. He was not a bad man. Recently it was discovered in a underground parking while muncipality was trying to find a lost river.

[@Chostera]

Todor Zhivkov owned one of the 6 pullman landaulets , and it is still in the Bulgarian parlament garage in perfect condition , the only one without climate control pullmann landaulet ever made !

[@s.s.p.9680]

If there were only 6 Pullman Landaulets, that means that the rest 53 Landaulets were small regular sedan length?

[@veteranpg3d156]

Но главно караше Цил

[@Mobiedicc]

Thank you for putting Marcos as a Dictator on a list!!!

[@anderskandersson4613]

One more, the first Burmese coup leader, Gen Nay Win bought two or three six- doors 600 in early 70s .

[@OffGridInvestor]

4:33 where I used to work there were a LOT of warehouses, some of many of major companies. Wasn't unknown to see Lamborghini and stuff. I remember being at the traffic lights with one of these maybach besides me.

[@eight-cloudspurple5871]

The Official car of German Engineering, timeless masterpiece, and His Excellency, President for Life, Field Marshal Al Hadji Doctor Idi Amin Dada, VC, DSO, MC, lord of all the beasts of the Earth and Fishes of the Seas and conqueror of British Empire in Africa in General and Uganda in Particular.

[@dannygeuens8570]

Result: MERCEDES-BENZ is the best car in the whole world!!! Over and out!!!!!

[@varghesesamuel9582]

Indian prime minster Indra Gandhi also used one six door Benz

[@TellySavalas-or5hf]

They forgot Blofeld drived this one also!

[@marcopolanco6398]

As the voice discusses the suspension the video shows the rear seat headrests...? Just a bunch of photos and the computerized narrator repeats the 300 Adenauer to the 600 succession at least twice in slow voice drama.... btw, hand built sounds neat, but is no measure of quality anymore. Nowadays, only computerized robot built equals high quality.

[@davidson-mielellc980]

So many of these images aren't 600s.

[@gertchristensen1411]

The former danish travelling king Simon Spies (died in 1984) owned two of them. One short wheelbase saloon bought in 1964 (now private owned) and one four door Pullman bought in 1965 now located at The danish Museum of technology.

[@hendrikvanderwalt6960]

Just to set the record straight, all the South African presidents drove in the same car, a Pullman, it belonged to the government. FW de Klerk seldom drove in the car, he preferred to use his own car, it was a mid eighties BMW 7 series !

[@echonga]

Ok I did not know that.

[@michaelopere5424]

It was the same situation in Kenya. The late president Kenyatta and the late president Moi used be driven in either long or short wheelbase versions of state owned S600 Grand Mercedes Pullman Grossers.

[@johnlamb3101]

Who cares about that traitor - DeKlerk. Wish the car blew up with him inside.

[@patrickcannell2258]

Car was bought in 1972. Fousche, Verster and then de Klerk used that same car. Was pricier that the Cadillacs most used then.

[@charleskinuthia9210]

I heard that investing in such classic cats is like investing in the old Masters paintings. Never loses value

[@lesklower7281]

What a list of the good and the bad owners if this car and two made it to Australia l did see one once in a car dealership in Sydney Australia also there was a mechanic or maybe a couple of mechanics who travelled the world servicing these Mercedes Benz 600s

[@paulaaron9419]

That 600, 6 door presidential pullman cabriolet with tan interior with black paint. In 1980 was purchased by the owner of Armoral in Costa Mesa, California for $100,000. I drove Santa Claus, Ms Claus and elfs to Fashion Island Christmas season opening in 1981.

[@Liplip40]

“During it’s short run from 1963 -1981}”huh?

[@prza4783]

I‘d love to have a ride with one of these one day ❤️😍😍

[@zebulon9307]

At the time when the 600 was an actual model by Mercedes, I always wondered what they thought when they watched their cars on TV driven by the dictators around the globe. Where they proud of their clientele, and the reputation that came with it? I don´t know. The same thing must be true of Toyota pick-ups, though.

[@OffGridInvestor]

Probably. I mean to get your cars to be president material you'd be proud REGARDLESS. Of course, you know what other dictator they made cars for including a 6 wheel version...

[@rolfagten857]

Hitler & Goering also drove Mercedes Benz.

[@DschoermaenRetrodaddler]

Twaddle. Hitler never drove a car, because he never had a driver's licence.

[@minimonsa]

Michael Keaton's 1990 Pacific Heights movie

[@TheSuperdjica]

Some of the photos in the video are said to be W100 models, but in fact they are W123, W114/115 and W109....

[@fotoralf]

Exactly, the Cambodian vehicle is an ordinary S-class and the Israelis' car is a stretched /8.

[@numeric.alphabet]

4km dulu saat bank dunia menawarkan granted perwakilan Indonesia menggunakan limousine sementara perwakilan jepang hanya Mobil omprengan..

[@rolfagten857]

17:45 in video is a W114 / 250 limo!!!!

[@JesusGarcia-ec7jo]

Fun fact: the Pablo Escobar 600 was destroyed in the 90's in an attack to one of his garages, he used to collect cars and motorbikes. Is displayed in Hacienda Napoles in Colombia completely destroyed :"c

[@JesusGarcia-ec7jo]

Other fact: it was only 1 600 coupé produced

[@paullacey2999]

When Im ruler of a small country I think I will need to speak to Mercedes-Benz..🤣

[@numeric.alphabet]

21k Computer Monitor Monocoque of car have different occasions in any cases which is monitor Monocoque itself and engine included..

[@BuickParkAvenue]

17:56 at the bottom left corner, you can see what looks like a 1964 Chevrolet. What would a '64 Chevy be doing in Yugoslavia?

[@s.majstorovic5598]

The motor pool of the Marshal of Yugoslavia contained 85 luxury vehicles, besides these MBZs, there were Rolls Royce's, Cadillacs and the such. They were used not only by President Tito but also by the highest Yugoslav political functionaries, as well as visiting foreign heads of state, and Tito would receive as many as up to 20 foreign statesmen each year. All of these cars were purchased, owned and maintained by the government of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, some were even personal gifts to President Tito from foreign statesmen, who knew he had a love for cars and basically all things mechanical. He worked as a mechanic and test driver in a Mercedes-Benz factory as a young man before the First World War, and he would sometimes come to the motor pool of the Guard to visit and even work with the men maintaining these vehicles. He also drove them himself as often as he could find an opportunity, mostly driving visiting statesmen around the Adriatic Island of Vanga, where his personal residence was.

[@kod4130]

The then president of Kenya Daniel Moi used it as an off road vehicle

[@jasxx1108]

Dapper don style ❤

[@HesseJamez]

17:50 is a long W114 , not a W100.

[@chandrachurniyogi8394]

Mercedes Benz could do a limited run of the 1974 Mercedes Benz 600 Pullman LWB (W100) AWD + 0.5 in. Lift 6.3 Biturbo V12 4-Dr Armoured Limousine (LHD) once again . . . 600 units will be produced & retail at €830,000 - €1,500,000 . . .

[@echonga]

Are they planning to do so?

[@davidson-mielellc980]

@@echonga I am unaware that MB has any plans to do so. Updating the needed safety specs would seem prohibitive.

[@tonychavez2083]

A very impressive list of owners... MBZ has been and always will be the Premier motorcar...

[@shabbos-goy9407]

The Rolls Phantom is on par I would say for ostentatious presence. The 60's version.

[@armanblitz6908]

To be fair with Mercedes, they did make another dictator car. Six wheels, open top, but needed someone to make some hand signals.

[@RudiMenthol]

yes hitler himself did the signaling amazing

[@Carlos-gb8np]

digno de un rey

[@stanojevicnatasa2514]

Tito was not really a dictator in a sense like all these other leaders you mentioned. Yes, he was a lifelong president in a single party state, but outside first few years after WW2 when his secret police arrested and liquidated leaderships of nationalist Chetnik and Ustasha movements and their unashamed followers, life in Yugoslavia was free and relatively good. People could regularly buy cars, wear western style clothes, listen to rock and roll and other American music, obtain passports to go out of the country, practice their religion even LGBT people weren't persecuted in former Yugoslavia, knowing that multiple public figures in the 1970s were openly gay. Tito's period was the most peaceful, prosperous, progressive, cultured and financially stable time for large majority of Yugoslav population.

[@echonga]

Not all of them were dictators. But the car was popular among a few dictators.

[@stanojevicnatasa2514]

@@echonga of course, I understand, just letting the viewers know because Yugoslavia is often surrounded by misconceptions.

[@trongnghiachu1977]

This is the first time I heard that Yugoslavia doesn't persecute LGBT people, but then again, this could have to do with Yugoslavia's Eurovision participation, something that I knew very well, Eurovision is pretty much destined for some glorious LGBT goodness ever since the first edition of the contest.

[@stanojevicnatasa2514]

@@trongnghiachu1977 Serbia and other countries that came after Yugoslavia went significantly backwards in that way after the wars of the 1990s and rise of nationalism backed up by 3 different religions. Period of late 1960s to early Post-Tito years of early 1980s was the most socially progressive time in our history with multiple famous LGBT people enjoying high status in Yugoslav society, such as, for example : Jovan Kolundžija, violinist, gay man, Lepa Mlađenović, professor and intellectual, lesbian, Himzo Polovina, Bosnian sevdah singer, gay man, Jovan Ćirilov, theatre critic, gay man, Mira Trailović, theatre director, lesbian, Oliver Mandić, singer, occasional transvestite, Sonja Savić, actress, hinted to be bisexual, there were even cases of transsexual people appearing here and there in the 1973-1989 period who, due to lack of local medical knowledge, received support from their communities. Such is the story of Yugoslavia's first diagnosed transsexual, Sonja Džepina, in 1972-1973, who got part of her surgery cost covered by the collective effort of her labour union due to it "costing more than a new Stojadin" (Zastava 101, Yugoslavia's most popular family car) and her ticket to London and back paid by the Yugoslav Airlines.

[@rosewood1]

Your figures for horsepower and torque are a little confused because different countries use different measures and metrics. So my 6.3 had 300hp and 434 foot pounds. But you see different measures in part because there were different compression ratios and 2 different blocks. The fuel injection system owes it's design to WW2 where it was developed for aircraft. And yes a 6.3 as the nose rears under hard acceleration can sound like a bomber taking off. Mercedes also made 2 2 door coupe versions of the 600! Parts today are hard to find and extremely expensive. However these cars were extremely well made and if well serviced are capable of well over 1 million kilometres. You never replace switches etc on these cars. They literally last forever if looked after.

[@queensheba7766]

Emperor haile selassi of Ethiopia had one dark red 600 in the early 70’s ...,

[@abdirizaakyabdi7934]

Is Mercedes actually brand for dictators. I'm am very disappointed.

[@rolfagten857]

And the Volvo from Honnecker the DDR clown.

[@anthonymarlowe6986]

Lots of Dictator had Rolls Royce too. Mercedes Benz 600 is a beautiful elegant timeless ageless classic car.

[@emmanuelnkwenti3978]

I think Paul Biya had one too

[@bluebear6570]

No one in Germany called the Mercedes 600 "Grosser Mercedes".

[@DschoermaenRetrodaddler]

Der Große.

[@OffGridInvestor]

Everyone else does

[@richardkisulani9098]

I’ve seen one that belonged to the Ugandan dictator IDI AMIN.

[@andreaskessler-ip5sr]

Bekannter von mir hatte den 600er Pullmann von Mobuto den Schlächter von Zaire mit Blutrotem Leder

[@abdihakeemcisman6868]

Mercedes should re invent the grosser.....

[@shabbos-goy9407]

Maybach doesn't have the same "get the fk out of my way you worthless inferior piece of $hit" presence!!!

[@BrainDeath89]

Nice Video

[@echonga]

Thanks

[@g.marinestation3236]

Its so sad that the US/UK Invadors stole Sadams 600 and brought it to a Car Collector that claims he "retiteld" the Vehicle. This Car belongs to the Iraq and their People!

[@ironsidefan]

The name Laundet is pronounced lawn duh lay NOT lawn du let!

[@johnpatricklim4509]

the 600 have very influential customers....every dictator in the 60s and 70s have a mercedes 600...including elvis prestly....

[@s.s.p.9680]

18 years a "short run"?

[@charleskinuthia9210]

Bad boys love this car. The list of dictators looks like a catalogue of butchers, and ah.....

[@СергейСергеев-й9ц9п]

Гроссер,тема

[@СергейСергеев-й9ц9п]

Тольуцыет отстой

[@miropopovic4505]

You need learn facts and history about Yugoslavia and Tito!! Before you put he’s photo with those animals!!!!

[@echonga]

Not all of them were dictators. But the car was popular among a few dictators.

[@anthonymarlowe6986]

Miro Popovic Mercedes Benz 600 hundred is a beautiful car looks like it was made yesterday elegance ageless timeless.

[@dm5374]

The car of my dreams (my dad bought one new in 1966), I recently had the opportunity to be driven in a gold SWB limo version ( like in the the video, one of 15 built...). It was for sale and a car collector friend of mine asked me to check it out. How do you say no??

[@shabbos-goy9407]

Your father must have had immense wealth to purchase such a conveyance. A Pullman is the one to have . Six doors!

[@dm5374]

@@shabbos-goy9407 Actually my dad was not rich, he simply didn't spend money without necessity and when he had to buy something it was only the best. It worked because he left me an inheritance, which today more and more seems to be a rarity.

[@shabbos-goy9407]

@@dm5374 So your dad was not rich but bought perhaps the most expensive car on the planet.

[@dm5374]

@@shabbos-goy9407 My dad was an artist so he did what he wanted. In those days a 600 SWB started at about $15,000, when a Cadillac Fleetwood was $10K. Our neighbors next door had two Fleetwoods, a black one and a silver one (his and hers), and traded them in every 2-3 years. The guy was a lawyer. My dad kept the 600 ten years and in the end spent a lot less money.

[@shabbos-goy9407]

@@dm5374 fair enough

[@aldostefanini1392]

So happy to see us South Africans bought quite a few of them

[@patrickcannell2258]

One car. Used by Fousche, Vorster and de Klerk. Government garage car!

[@aldostefanini1392]

@@patrickcannell2258 dankie. Thought they each had one

[@colingarner6175]

Grossier -- not quite what it’s called 😂😂

[@Budgetgadgets2]

Daniel Arap what again?😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@KironManuelCards]

I had to thumb down this video. Mercedes Benz is a car that I will never ride in!

[@djpalindrome]

Your AI narration is absolutely ridiculous “Saint Paul Virgin Islands” 😅

[@rolandapostinona6107]

Sinistre voiture ! Malheur de tout un peuple.

[@DschoermaenRetrodaddler]

A car itself isn't sinister, its owners are.

[@andrefiset3569]

Kim Jong Un found a way to get two armored Mercedes-Maybach S600 in 2018 in violation of the United Nations sanctions on luxury goods.

[@mohantole6926]

You forgot our President of India bharat

[@相模湘南]

西ドイツの車でありながら、共産圏のの指導者も御愛用したようですね。

[@OsmanMahack-sb9er]

كل ملوك العرب لهم عشرات سياراتW100 وخاص ملك حسين اردن والراحل حافظ الأسد رئس سوري❤

[@agimternova9299]

Albanian dictator Hoxha, use to have Mercedes Benz Pullman 600 (1967)...🤮🤮🤮

[@norden9999]

14:32 President of South Korea??? 🤣

[@masoudshaghaghi5744]

You forgot His Majesty Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, the king eminence of IRAN, above all these people.

[@cadillacman9762]

Cadillac Fleetwood Brougham 💪

[@wolframsobotta4350]

Manche mochten aus politischen Gründen keine britischen KFZ.

[@kevinjackson2711]

Also Let's not Minister Louis Farrakhan (Leader Nation of Islam)

[@АлександърГорчев]

И в България се пази 600 pulman на Тодор Живков!

[@AshleyGordon-dt1zq]

Interesting video but DREADFUL, AWFUL voice over, full of pronunciation errors. Also "short run from 1963 to 1981" - that's a SHORT run??? How about getting e real voice instead of this poor imitation of one?

[@darkdarker4596]

Why do yu show Saddam hussien he was one of the best if not the best Arab leader so yu better stop this propaganda against him May his soul rest in peace ask most of the Arabs we love and adored him till this day and we cry when we remember how the Americans murdered him so just stop this propaganda

[@shabbos-goy9407]

His sons were also delightful human beings. Raping brides on their wedding day or mowing down innocent civilians with machine guns. Yep the Hussein clan were definitely the best Arabs that ever lived.

[@brianredmond4919]

Like a Rolls Royce but without the elegance and good taste.

[@anthonymarlowe6986]

BRIAN Redman - Mercedes Benz 600 beautiful elegance timeless and ageless car looks like it was yesterday. For a car that first came out 60 years a go Compered to the Rolls Royce they look there's age.

[@shabbos-goy9407]

This is subjective. Both are sublime. Like a Blonde or Brunette. The Rolls is in no way as beautifully engineered as the Grosser.

[@intrepidone2796]

Please don‘t say “Maybuck“! The correct pronunciation is “Mybuch“ with the “ch“ sounding like the Mexican ‘J‘ in ‘José‘. And the 300 (“Dryhundert“) is called “Ah-denower“ after the first postwar German chancellor. And „Rolls Royce“ is double stressed (the names of the inventors with Royce being the construction guy).

[@philipchurchill6508]

All horrible leaders except prince siihanouk ,and even Leonid Brezhnev, both decent men , though brezhnev was so nice that he put all his old pals in power , he would have made a great local mayor or something like that but not a world leader ! , good man though as was Gorbachev , Khruschev and even Andropov

[@ronniedrozario8883]

Super-Mercedes / stretch limo. Merce. with face-to- face seats was discovered in 1955,- the idea later adapted by U.S. for Cadillac, Rolls Royce, Lincoln,... Kolkata, India, & SHARE.❤

[@kleemann2068]

The name of the president of Yugoslavia was Josip Broz Tito. It is not true that the vehicle was sold in England for 2.5 million pounds. The vehicle is located in Belgrade and is owned by the State of Serbia. The Guards Unit of the Serbian Army is in charge of Titos Mercedes.

[@reljaradojicic4519]

One of two landaulets (1971) was on auction in London. The first landaulet (1967) and the other 3 Pullmans (one bulletproif) are in Belgrade...

[@TrucksScaleModels]

@@reljaradojicic4519 as far i know, tito had in total 7 of them, 2 lwb, 1 armoured, 4 swb

[@reljaradojicic4519]

@@TrucksScaleModels First was Pullman 6 doors 1965, second was Landaulet 6 doors long top 1967, the third was second landaulet long top 6 doors 1971 (auctioned in London), the fourth was Pullman 6 doors 1976, and bulletproof 1978. Tito not had SWB.

[@Trinavara]

1963 to 1981 is a very long run ...