Albania's Unbreakable German Taxi: +1,000,000KM Clocked!
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- Опубликовано: 7 окт 2022
- In Albania, every third registered car is a used Mercedes, like the one Luan Nina owns. He has been working as a taxi driver for fifteen years, and has driven this 30 year old Benz more than one million kilometers. No wonder they love German cars in Albania, they seem to be built like tanks!
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Report: Lennart Behnke
Camera: Moritz von Lüpke
Edit: Jennifer Gärtner
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Mercedes Benz should definitely reward this guy with a new car for taking care and promoting Benz all these years. It would not cost much for Benz to do that.
The W124 is probably the pinnacle of heir reliability and engineering. There was a study done a few years ago to see how much a similarly engineered and R&D E Class would be. It would stat at €70,000 new.
Watching this while sitting in my 95 W140, these 90s and 80s tanks are indestructible and made to last a lifetime with the best engineering available at the time with no expenses spared. Nothing beats an old Merc.
W124 are really reliable over engineered sedans.
As an Italian, I love how most of Albanians speak Italian (when he said "me ne frego"), they're very similar people to us.
The time when Mercedes made reliable cars
I was to Bamako, Mali where every other taxi is a yellow W124 Diesel Mercedes. These cars were also popular as personal transportation. I asked my taxi driver why there were so many of these old Mercs still around. He said it’s the only car that’s tough enough for Africa where only a limited number of roads are paved. That was 11 years ago, I kept in touch with him and he still drives the same car.
I was born in 93 in Albania & these are the only cars I remember, everyone had one 🤣🤣
He said his name is Luan, not Luna.
W124 still a reasonable and durable mercedes here in indonesia. They survived the tropic season for more than 2 decades with relatively minimum problems
It has 1.5mil km... IN ALBANIA
That phone in the steering wheel lol 😂
i also got this car from my late grandmother , i've been keeping it for 20 years now. mileage still on 190,000 KM. every 6 months im doing medical checkup for this car , normal services almost nothing broken or need to change every 6 years , except tyre and battery kaput every 3-4 years.
For real old mercedes are the best
I wanna take a ride in that cab
Old cars had really good build quality, today's generation most of the cars won't be able to stand in front of this car. Respect for the car and the person's hardwork.
I once sat in a Mercedes taxi in turkey. I said to the driver this is the first taxi here that I saw there that only had 300.000km! His answer was that The cluster already went round to zero
Albania has not only a lot of Mercedes passenger cars, but a lot of old Mercedes buses as well. Many city buses are directly bought used from German public transport companies. I've ridden buses from VBB Berlin and MVV Munich in Tirana and RMV Hanau bus in Durres. They don't even bother removing the German city's ÖPNV map and “riding without a ticket will be fined 60 €” warning in the buses.
His name is Luan which translates to Lion in English not Luna.
This is more eco friendly than those electric cars.