" TECHNOLOGY IN CHANGING TIMES " 1982 MERCEDES-BENZ W201 190 SERIES CAR PROMO FILM XD83085

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@thebigweasle 6 ай бұрын

The w201 and the larger w124 were the most advanced cars on the road at that time. What’s even more impressive is they were designed in the late 1970’s!

@UnixAnt 6 ай бұрын

I had a 300ce-24 many years ago and absolutely loved it - the car felt special and was a joy to drive. I returned to Mercedes-Benz several times since the 90s and that feeling I had driving my w124 (c124?) and being passenger in a 560 SEC (c126) never returned. Remove the badge from modern-day Mercs and you could be sat in literally any other car.

@thebigweasle 6 ай бұрын

I 100% agree! Every Mercedes I’ve had after 2000 was complete junk!

@Hubjeep 6 ай бұрын

I daily drive a 1995 e300 diesel W124 here in the USA.

6 ай бұрын

I hope and pray that Germany is freed from its psychological captivity they`ve been under for the past 140 years or so just so they can fill the world with their sublime intellect and industrious prowess.....Look at that baby Benz, a car so magnetic in its aesthetics you can`t stop staring at it..... was and still is a dream to sit behind its wheels and drive that buttery smooth chassis.

@Reminisciences 6 ай бұрын

Looking forward to any more tech films you have on Merc from the 80s. Has a totally different feel than their modern marketing

@jagboy69 6 ай бұрын

Oh you like marketing about the actual product and not ESG/DEI stuff?

@Reminisciences 6 ай бұрын

@@jagboy69 This and actual ergonomic and useful cars, not just shiny plastic with touchscreens

@jagboy69 6 ай бұрын

@@Reminisciences Exactly!!

@apl175 6 ай бұрын

Meanwhile at GM in the United States: We'll sell heaps by telling prospects that "It has room for five AND front wheel drive!"

@AlanMydland-fq2vs 6 ай бұрын

@@apl175 yikes thats a no go

@gregorymalchuk272 6 ай бұрын

That's funny, because the GM TBI electronic fuel injection being introduced on the Iron Duke and 122 family four cylinders in 1982 was way better and more reliable than the mess of Bosch Jetronic.

@apl175 5 ай бұрын

@@gregorymalchuk272 There was a series of films that GM produced where dealers were trained that "Throttle body injection, is simpler and trouble free compared to those companies that are doing so called complicated multi-port injection which requires computers that can go wrong." They also said "fewer gears in our 3-speed automatic transmissions means less to go wrong."

@luckybestwash 6 ай бұрын

I actually like that dune buggy test vehicle more than any of their finished cars

@SigEpBlue 6 ай бұрын

12:06 Anyone else getting flashbacks of James May crossing the Makgadikgadi?

@tomcrozier9548 6 ай бұрын

The only problem with the 190 was that it wasn’t big enough to fit a full sized driver!

@Assuranipal 6 ай бұрын

... and, with like all german cars: Rust.

@popolvuh8097 6 ай бұрын

you mean driver about 200 kg?

@jfv65 6 ай бұрын

BS. The full size (aka FAT) driver maybe shouldn't have eaten so much. After Mercedes introduced the 190 it later Introduced even SMALLER cars like the A-class. And the Smart for2. All these models sold quite good in Europe.

@albear972 6 ай бұрын

"full sized driver" Nice euphemism. 😂🤣😂

@jagboy69 6 ай бұрын

What was the weight of the average driver back then? 165lbs? Unlike today's driver pushing 200+ so they need these egg shaped minivans. So to not hurt their feelings, we call them suvs or crossover vehicles. I wanna skip this age and go straight to where people lounge on their hoovering devices and float around like on wall-e.

@karamuenster 6 ай бұрын

Periscope 👍🏻💯

@heyjoe113 6 ай бұрын

When Germany was stable and secure.

@robertusa1234 6 ай бұрын

Well. At least the west side of it

@johnryno 6 ай бұрын

1937

@heyjoe113 6 ай бұрын

@@johnryno get a haircut

@johnryno 6 ай бұрын

@@heyjoe113 why

@heyjoe113 6 ай бұрын

@@johnryno your head is obviously not useful for anything else.

@bardo0007 6 ай бұрын

Made in Germany 100% those were the good times

@jagboy69 6 ай бұрын

This was back when quality was the name of the game and corporate profits came second. It's been all downhill since the mid 90s. I will never park another 3pointed PITA in my driveway.

@americameinyourmouth9964 6 ай бұрын

That’s never been true. There have always been low quality and high quality vehicles.

@albear972 6 ай бұрын

15:43 Seriously, Mercedes? Having *no passenger* side view mirror was very common on the cheapest of the cheap cars during the 80's

@thedrivechannel83 6 ай бұрын

Cars have never been better than 80s MB.

@Carstuff111 5 ай бұрын

I miss the days when Mercedes actually cared about quality above all else. It was brand loyalty well deserved. I rather have one of these with a diesel and manual transmission over anything Mercedes builds now. I don't care how much faster or how much tech has been shoved into the new cars, THIS is a proper Mercedes-Benz, what is built now is garbage.