9:50 Have you heard why the Mercedes race cars get traditionally a silver paintwork? In 1932 the international racing authority reduced the permitted total weight (without driver) for Grand Prix racing cars to 750kg, starting with the races in 1934. Daimler-Benz designed the Mercedes W25 according to those rules - but at the technical acceptance test for the race at the Nürburgring at 3 June 1934 it was weighted with 751 kg. To match the limit they grinded down the originally white paintwork over night and started the other day with the blank polished aluminium bodywork - by which they fetched the nickname "Silberpfeil" (silver arrow). (Auto Union, the predecessor of Audi, had a similar idea, but their cars were called "Silberfisch" (silverfish).)
5:40 that silver car on the right is the 300 SLR Uhlenhaut Coupe. Two of them were made, that one right there and another one that was sold in 2022 for around $135 million, making it the most expensive car ever sold. What's cool about it is the engine, because unlike the 300 SL, it used a 3 liter straight eight (yes, 8 cylinders but in a line ) It was by far the fastest car in the world back in 1955 and was capable of reaching 290km/h or 180mp/h.
Fun fact: I don´t know if its still there, but some years ago, Mercedes bought a Taxi to show at the Museum. The car was still running when they bought it, going round in my beautiful city (Lisbon). Why they bought it? it had just made the 1.000.000 km mark! That´s right, no mistake, there was a million kms Mercedes taxi still working in Lisbon.
I live near Stuttgart. It is in a "Kessel", which means, it is surrounded by hills, that stunts natural city growth towards the outskirts. That is why it is among the smallest state capitals in Germany. The museum in question is basically in the industrial zone of the city, surrounded by industry.
They are probably flying the drone with the full FPV helmet and controlling the drone with head/arm movement. I've tried it once, you literally turn into a jet-hawk, a jethawk! One of the most bonkers thing i've experienced, flying a drone like that.
A Brit here, great reactions BTW…….I went to that museum and had a tour of the factory with my 4 year on son when I picked up my E class from the Stuttgart factory in 2001, which I then drove back to UK (on the autobahns at 100mph ) via Eurostar tunnel, well I was running the car in!……..……..great experience and all paid for by Mercedes Benz!!!!!! ……..
@@NiHe999 Well, there was a museum there when I went and it was very impressive…….in the early 2000s one could chose where one picked up the car, ie, at your local dealer or MB would fly you over to Stuttgart, business class, put you up in a 4 star hotel, give you a tour of the factory and museum and then hand over your car with a full tank of fuel and a Eurostar tunnel ticket back to the UK……..it was a company car as well so it didn’t cost me a penny………😁
When i worked for mercedes as an intern, at the other side of the museums street, it went there like 2-3 times a month when i had time. Its such a great museum and you see new things you missed the time before with each visit. You can really get close to the cars but of course since its a museum no touching 😊
5:40 - that's one of the most famous Mercedes models. An SL 300 Gull Wing from the 50s. With those, they won several races. It was the fastest sports car of its time with a Vmax of 237 km/h.
that was a 300 SLR uhlenhaut coupe, 2 of them were made for competition, one has just been made by HK Engineering from the original pattern, parts and moulds
Fun fact, most Mercedes registrations per resident are in a district with the license plate ST but that doesn't stand for Stuttgard but for Steinfurt in Münsterland
10:25 That would be the T80, a land speed record car made by Mercedes-Benz in the 1930s. It was the pet project of well-renowned German racing driver Hans Stuck, who wanted to be known as the fastest man in the world, and sought to set an absolute land speed record for it. Herr Stuck was going to be the one at the wheel. This 8-meter long, six-wheeled monster, was to be powered by the Daimler Benz DB 603, an inverted V12 aircraft engine with a displacement of 44.5 liters and making 3,000 horsepower. The engine ran on a special mixture of methyl alcohol (63%), benzene (16%), ethanol (12%), acetone (4.4%), nitrobenzene (2.2%), avgas (2%), and ether (0.4%) with MW (methanol-water) injection for charge cooling and as an anti-detonant.The aerodynamic bodywork was designed by none other than Dr. Ferdinand Porsche. The chassis had three axles, two in the rear to support the engine and one at the front. The target speed was originally going to be 600 km/h (373 mph), but when John Cobb set the 600 km/h land speed record in 1939, they upped the target speed to 750 km/h (466 mph) instead. They never got to make the land speed record attempt because of the outbreak of WWII, during which the T80's engine was removed and the rest of the car itself was squirreled away in a garage in Austria. The T80 survived the war and has since become a permanent exhibit at the Mercedes-Benz museum.
8:50 The Mercedes 300 on the right was the last Limousine of Konrad Adenauer, Gemanys first post-war Chancellor. The car on the left is the Mercedes-Benz 600 Pullman state limousine used from 1963 for 30 Years to chauffeur visiting heads of states.
There‘s also a huge VW Park in Wolfsburg - You need a whole day to experience everything including (pre-booked) 4x4 drive range and pick-up area for newly bought cars
I'm not really a car buff (though I like watching your channel and learn along with you) but I did visit the Mercedes museum a couple years ago, because of the history mostly... This is museum is so beautiful, we spend about 8 hours going from top to bottom, because there is just soooo much to see and read about... A must visit for a car guy!!
If you look down on the door at the entrance, it's the Merc logo. Here in South Australia, we had Merc buses, they were far superior to the M.A.N. and Scania's. Our ambulances are Mercs also.
3:40 That bus is from Argentina, that LO1112 diesel Mercedes served in the Buenos Aires Metropolitan Area (AMBA for the initials in spanish) from 1969 up until 1984, the colors and paintings on the bus body are known as "fileteado" or "fileteado porteño", a very popular hand paint styling from the streets of Buenos Aires since the late 1800s.
AMG ONE is a real beast. Had the pleasure to sit in one and hear the freaking engine running. Absolutely amazing. The museum is a must when in Stuttgart. Parts of the production are right behind the museum. It is like a city of its one.
5:45 That is one of two 1955 300 SLR Uhlenhaut Coupés. It has a 300 horsepower strait eight which accelerates the 900kg vehicle to north of 180 mph... The other car was auctioned some time ago for 135 million euros. The money funds a woldwide scholarship programm.
The W125 car behind the T80 is also a record holder it set a 1 kilometre record on a closed section of autobahn in 1938 at 432kph or 269mph which remained the highest speed on a public road for 79 years until broken in 2017.
yep, was the "flying 1 Kilometer" and i think also flying mile before it was broken by an Koenigsegg Agera RS driven in Nevada (back W125 drove on an german Highway); sadly on the same day the "rival" driver from Auto Union back them (Bernd Rosemeyer) lost his live after a strong wind gush pushed him of the round
Hey there Ian, these videos are always great, so thanks for doing them! The "Gullwing" at 6:20 is a very special car for German post-war automotive culture. As you can see in the video, the brilliant frame of the vehicle is pretty wide so the roof hinged doors were supposedly a purely practical solution when implemented but of course helped in making this car stand out. It was built from '54 to '57, powered by a 3 Liter fuel injected SOHC inline 6 with just over 200bhp@5800rpm, the fuel injection being pretty revolutionary at the time. It's got pretty tall gears for a 4 speed but since this car only weighs 1300kg, it'll accelerate steadily (0-60mph in 10seconds lol) up to it's top speed of 237km/h. The true marvel of this car is it's chassis, though: it's a full steel tube construction, making the extended door sills necessary for structural rigidity. I'm currently building a model of it :) Edit: The S600 at 8:48 is a fantastic example of complete over engineering everything on a matter of principle because when your clientele are sheiks and executives of recently overthrown countries, money is no object. Every moving appliance in this car from the trunk lid, the suspension to the windows is run on a VERY COMPLEX hydraulic system. The interior is exquisite. The engine is a monster. Apparently Gaddafi owned at least one.
I was fortunate to be there in 2016 ( 2017? ) it was a spectacular experience...we havent had much time so I had to rush a bit through it, so I couldnt read all the info, but still...was an amazing experience. We had the electronic audio guides, that tells you about the cars and stuff if you punch in the number that is also written on the info tablets....and those audio guides were handing on mercedes brand lanyards, which - after the end of the tour - we could keep. At that time (and also still today) I drove a Mercedes, and after that, I hooked that lanyard to my MB keys and still have it on today...althought the name wore off a bit, and got dirty a bit :D I still have it on.
In 2021 I was fortunate enough to visit this wonderful museum. It is even more amazing in person. And there were fairly few people due to Covid restrictions.
12:08 in this shot you can see the Stadium of VfB Stuttgart on the left (once called Mercedes-Benz Arena, now MHP Arena) and on the right is one of their biggest factories with around 12.000 people working there, as well as the heatquater.
Greetings and Love from Germany again. Here's an Info bout the Mercedes you've been wondering bout. The white one with this special paint job, that looks like an Artwork of Picasso. In May 2015, the German rapper, who always appears in a panda mask and has been a Mercedes-Benz brand ambassador since 2013, transformed a Mercedes-Benz CLA Street Style into a work of Art, using spray cans, touch-up pens and paint. Just like a Graffiti artist. The car was then shown throughout Germany during the Mercedes-Benz Roadshow and then handed over to the lucky winner who took part in this charity raffle. Oh, and btw. you didn't asked how those huge, great and very long Trucks and Busses came up to the 4-5 Floor of the Museum...😅 have a peaceful weekend and stay safe, buddy
@5:00 Answer from me "That's why we in Germany have T-shirts with the print...! "If I want to drive a Benz, I'll call a taxi!" @ 5:36 that is the best example for a Taxi Cap..... take note : inná olde times Taxis wear Black in Germany and that was the "Standard" befor they change to , what we nowadays call "Taxi white"
Nope. The colour is called "hellelfenbein (RAL 1015)" => light ivory. It's not white at all and between Berlin and Bochum I never heard that from a taxidriver.
In English, you only "drive" a road or rail vehicle (except motor bikes and bicycles) if you personally sit behind the steering wheel, in all other cases you "ride" a vehicle (cars, buses, trains, etc.). So the translated shirt slogan ought to be, "If I want(ed) to ride a Benz, I('d) call a taxi." This differentiation does not exist in the German language where you use the verb "fahren" for both.
@@berlindude75 Well, it kinda does, we have "fahren" for driving and "mitfahren" for "riding", leading to beautiful compound words as "Mitfahrgelegenheit" ≈ "Opportunity to ride along". But it's true that "fahren" is used for driving and riding here.
@@Justforvisit The verb "mitfahren" consists of the stem verb "fahren" and the verb particle "mit". The same you have in English with "ride along" (stem verb "ride" and verb particle "along"), it's just not written as a single word. In German, this verb particle also becomes detached in inflections: "Wir nahmen unser Auto und sie fuhr (mit uns) mit." = "We took our car and she rode along (with us)."
The gullwing doors where first featured on the 300 SL, simply out of necassaty. They made the car so low and the door seals so high , that a normal door just wouln't fit. The gullwing was the solution.
Yep, we did this last year and it is impressive. It was 37C at the time and the aircon was flat out trying to cope. We are both petrolheads, and spent a long time here. The story of world events (not all car related) as the timescale progresses is told by wall panels, and I read them all -very well done. There was mention of the company's total compliance with the Third Reich but it wasn't dwelt on!! Oh, and it was very reasonably priced too. €12 or something, time unlimited.
Good wishes from Germany. That Museum is 30min away from me. The biggest thin about that Museum is. There Are not so many Stairs. The hole Building you can Walk Like a hill. It is an Screw Building.
This museum has set the "standard" for other manufacturers auto-museums, at least in Germany. The building looks much smaller than it really is ;) What is missing in the beginning of the video is the so intersting elevators (lifts?) that take you up to the top floor where you walk down the history of Mercedes-Benz. On the top floor there is no "Mercedes" as Mercedes wasn't "invented" until later - it was all Karl Benz with the first patented automobile and then Gottlieb Daimler & Wilhelm Maybach with their motorcycle (the first in the world) and then cars. Mercedes as a brand wasn't born until decades later.
"Stuttgart looks pretty, You can see parts of the city - it's got some big hills..." Well, no. Most of the buildings are Mercedes factory grounds or company parking lots/garages. It's pretty much 100% Mercedes (well, 75-80ish%). And it's all industrial suburbs, too. The 'hills' are quite interesting, tho. Every hill in that area is a vinyard. And they make good wine. How do I know? That's 2 miles from my place. :D
On my bucket list too. My first car here in Finland was a -86 W124, back in- 99. It was a great car and I have had seven different models of 124 since that. A W140, W210, W203, W211 etc etc...140 was my favourite. -Finnish person.
Greetings from Germany. Funny, I visited the Mercedes-Benz Museum with my daughter two weeks ago and the next day the Porsche-Museum. You should check this out as well.
There was a documentary in the UK about the Pre-WW2 Grand Prix and land speed record cars (called Hitler's Supercars, if I'm remembering correctly) within the context of their use in Nazi Germany's sportswashing. Towards the end of that documentary, they modeled that T 80 land speed record car from its blueprints and ran 2 computer simulations on it, one for drag, and one for downforce. They concluded that the car's power and drag would have been enough to take the record, but most of its downforce was generated at the rear, behind the rear wheels [Edit: It also produced lift at the front]. It likely would have backflipped if it actually ran.
Hmm...would the record still count if it backflipped but made a perfect Moonsault, landed back on all 4 wheels and kept on driving? Just being silly here, just had that funny image in my head
The Benz Museum also has the world record for the highest artificial tornado, that's their anti smoke system in case of a fire ( ruclips.net/video/DvK8D0VNumQ/видео.html )
The 'prototype Le Mans type cars' were Group C cars, raced from 1982-1992 in the World Sportscar Championship. Mercedes competed in cooperation with Sauber from 1985-1991. They would return in 1997 to the FIA GT Championship (the spiritual successor) in the GT1 class. They only competed 2 years, withdrawing from GT sports after the Mercedes-Benz CLR proved to be aerodynamically unstable in close battles with other cars. This led to drivers going airborne on the straight after Mulsanne corner. Freakishly, both drivers (Webber and Dumbreck) crashed almost exactly at the same point of the track.
That first Gullwing with the sidepipes is one out of two 300 SLR Uhlenhaut Coupé, the other one costs 135 million euros and is the most expensive car ever sold.
In Germany, there is a fairly rigorous traineeship/apprenticeship in any kind of profession. I don't know how it is in this museum, but at the Deutsche Bahn Museum, all the scale replicas of historic trains and lots of the repairs on the real trains were done by apprentices in the apprentice workshop. Perfect blend of learning and doing something productive. I can well imagine that the old cars in the museum were either restored or replicated by Mercedes Benz trainees...
I went to the Museum in 2022. I must have spent almost an hour taking in the 300 SLR Uhlenhaut Coupe alone. One of the best cars ever built, and now officially the most expensive production car ever.
Don't worry. None of the customer AMG Project ONE's will see road or track. They'll sit in collectors garage connected to a battery tender under a nice microfibre car cover It also has actual Formula 1 engine. And even in this "road" configuration you can only drive it for 31.000 km before complete rebuild. In US Mercedes, BMW and Audi are considered luxury cars, while in Europe they're a little more expensive commuter cars. Merc E-classes (even new 2020+ W213 and soon W214 generation) are used as taxis in Germany and almost all are painted in beige color 6:03 that right there is a 1955 Mercedes-Benz 300 SLR Uhlenhaut Coupé (1 of 2 ever built), the most expensive car ever sold on auction. It was sold for $135 million to anonymous buyer. I'm not sure if the one in the video was sold or the 2nd one 7:45 F1 used Mercedes AMG safety and medical cars exclusively from 1996 until 2021 when Aston Martin were added alongside AMG cars. And AM Vantage uses AMG 4.0l engine from AMG GT so you could say it's still an AMG safety car Here a video of S204 C63 AMG Medical car ruclips.net/video/nqRfwix-ntg/видео.html 8:26 a lot of 1980s-1990s Mercedes' were dual painted. I read it somewhere why, but can't find it anymore. Even base spec versions 8:39 CLA is probably similar to BMW Art car 8:49 to quote Jeremy Clarkson: "People who had a 600 almost always had access to an air force." 10:23 Mercedes-Benz T80. It's 6 wheeled also. Designed by Ferdinand Porsche (yes, that Ferdinand) and was intended to break the world land speed record, but never made the attempt, due to the project having been overtaken by the outbreak of World War II. (as shown later in the video) The one right to it is W125 Rekordwagen Drone footage is not CGI. It's real and they used FPV (first person view) drone. Basically you have FPV goggles similar to Apple Vision Pro and radio controller (similar to RC car controller) and drone is the size of Apple iPad (some are bigger, some are smaller)
The Mercedes museum is quite cool. What you don't really see is the museum starts on the top floor and has a double spiralling walkway down showing both commercial and private transportation. At the centre top is the original motor Carl Benz designed, a single cylinder engine that within its first year powered a car, a boat and an airship!
Cool video - thanks! You should google the Uhlenhaut Coupé - thats the Silver one you didn`t know obviously. Its one of the most expensive cars on earth if not the most expensive one ;-) The one with the Gullwing Doors is the 500 SL which was also called the Gullwing. Thats a legendary car as well and they are also very expensive for a good reason. The Museum is a must when you are around Stuttgart and I have been there about 5 times already. Also go to the Porsche Museum then as it is also located in Stuttgart. Its great as well but smaller of course.
Maybe the PS.Speicher in the German town Einbeck may be interesting too. Its the presentation of parts of the collection of more than 2600 bikes, motorcycles, cars and trucks from all around the automotive history in an old warehouse on 25000 m². All vehicles original or restaurated, running and regularly moving to conventions, rallies, and so on. The donator of his collection owned the worlds largest motorcycle collection and the worlds largest small cars collection. Maybe you should have a look for some of their videos here on youtube.
3:00 I love that very early car where you have two benches facing each other and the driver looks ahead but has to look past the passengers in front of him to see the road.😄Even that early on, they should have realised that's not a great idea.
Before I go to a PORCUPINE TREE concert in Stuttgart, I visit this museum....very cool. Btw...I work for the VW-PASSAT-FACTORY for 42 years and now I am retired
Das Museum ist wirklich faszinierend! Man fährt in einem Lift nach oben und geht durch das ganze Museum bergab. Ausergwwöhnlich sind die Spezialfahrzeuge wie z.B. "der blaue Wal". Den musst du dir anschauen. in der Nähe ist auch das Porschemuseum, da muss ich noch hin!
one can usually program drones to fly certain paths (also how it should rotate or focus on, view points) - and with certain patterns. one can also let it follow you (from all kind of distances and angles) while you move (per pedes, bike, car, whatever) - or circles around you while moving and so on ....
The Porsche Museum is also extremely nice. In case you‘ll visit the miniature Wunderland in Hamburg, also take a look into the car museum near by - it’s small compared to those others but has some gems of different automakers on show
From a 80's 90's perspective in the Netherlands, Mercedes had no small cars, yet (A series, B series etc.). It was a very high middle class brand (200 C). Taxi drivers (240 E), Contractors (240 E stationwagon), more expensive models (500 SEL) for diplomats and corporate SEO's.
Back in the olden days of formula One some countries had national colours they raced under, Italy was/is Italian red, Germany was/is silver, France was/is racing blue and England was/is racing green
Sounds like Ian should look into drone racing, just remember to add content warnings for possible seasickness and melted brains. It's that drone footage multiple times faster in much tighter spaces, incredibly fascinating to watch if your head and stomach can handle it. So a highly skilled racing drone pilot would have the knowledge and experience to do that as easily as driving on a sunny and lazy Sunday day trip. Please Ian look into those videos, you'll be gobsmacked with the level of speed they can cope with.
8:30 to 8:33 in the background the grey mighty open tourer cabriolet is the last car of German Emperor Wilhelm II. From 1931 MB 770 Grosser Pulman Cabriolet F, four doors six windows eight passenger version, flip seats for 2 bodyguards. 7.7 liter inline 8 supercharger 150/200 bhp . Weight 3.5 tons
The drone video is not computer generated. I've worked with some of the people who were involved in making it. Apparently they had a very good drone pilot and did a lot of practice runs. I'm not sure whether there may be some hidden cuts, though. As you said, seeing the museum in person is a much better experience still. The vehicles are awesome of course, but it goes far beyond that. They don't only display the cars, they also put them in the historical context that explain what life, and work, was like at the time. For example, at one point they show a bottle of lemonade. Why? Because in the early 20th century it was common for workers in manufacturing to dring apple cider at work. But workers always being slightly drunk posed a safety risk. So the factory provided lemonade instead.
8:58 These are the postwar cars from Mercedes that were sold under the title „ Grosser“ Mercedes a humble way for DB to mark a car for country leaders. The 600 produced handmade between 1963 to 1981 and the 300 produced handmade 1951 to 1962, this is 300d or Mark4 , 3.0 liters aluminum 6 fuel injection 160 bhp topspeed 170 kmh.
It's like a two hour drive between Stuttgart (Mercedes museum, Porsche museum) and Ingolstad (Audi). Nurenberg is nearby as well, all should visit that museum for quite different reasons. And then of course, from Ingolstadt it is a four hour drive to Prague. From where it is another hour to the Škoda Muzeum*, just saying. ;-) It is just lovely driving around in Germany on obviously great roads among the castles, schnitzels and beers. * You'll literally drive through Pilsen get to there.
Of the T80 they've made an official reproduction of the rolling chassis in 2017/2018, including a partially sectioned engine but similar to the intended DB603 V12.
The drone pilot is flying an FPV drone, he flies manually and has goggles. He's certainly experienced and although I could probably get the same kind of shots, I would be so scared flying arround all those expensive and legendary cars. Check out some acro fpv videos! (not necessarily for reaction)
Speaking of the T80, you should also look up W125 rekordwagen. There's a video of it doing a top speed run on the autobahn. It held the fastest speed on public road until koenigsegg took its throne 79 years later
Ian you have seen the 300 SL but near it there was the 300SLR Uhlenhaut, the hard top one, there are (I think) only two and the other one that is not in the Musseum was sold for 135.000.000 US$
The American should travel and experience the German museums. I think i like the Wolfsburg museum Autostadt most. Visited the Mercedes and Porsche museum last summer.
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7:56 The G-Modell is the armored pope´s car.
i was commenting that too.. but you were faster :D
popemobile
We call it Papamóvil in Spain, and there's a ton of different models. Definitely worth it checking them out.
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9:50 Have you heard why the Mercedes race cars get traditionally a silver paintwork? In 1932 the international racing authority reduced the permitted total weight (without driver) for Grand Prix racing cars to 750kg, starting with the races in 1934. Daimler-Benz designed the Mercedes W25 according to those rules - but at the technical acceptance test for the race at the Nürburgring at 3 June 1934 it was weighted with 751 kg. To match the limit they grinded down the originally white paintwork over night and started the other day with the blank polished aluminium bodywork - by which they fetched the nickname "Silberpfeil" (silver arrow). (Auto Union, the predecessor of Audi, had a similar idea, but their cars were called "Silberfisch" (silverfish).)
The car with gullwing doors is THE Gullwing!
Mercedes 300 SL Gullwing. Worth millions.
You've already seen the Audi museum, you've seen the Mercedes museum, now all that's missing is the BMW and VW museums.
Porsche
When in Stuttgart it is best to go to the Porsche museum as well since that is also in Stuttgart.
The bmw one is the shape of the badge
Porsche Museum????
Porsche
5:40 that silver car on the right is the 300 SLR Uhlenhaut Coupe. Two of them were made, that one right there and another one that was sold in 2022 for around $135 million, making it the most expensive car ever sold.
What's cool about it is the engine, because unlike the 300 SL, it used a 3 liter straight eight (yes, 8 cylinders but in a line )
It was by far the fastest car in the world back in 1955 and was capable of reaching 290km/h or 180mp/h.
Fun fact: I don´t know if its still there, but some years ago, Mercedes bought a Taxi to show at the Museum. The car was still running when they bought it, going round in my beautiful city (Lisbon). Why they bought it? it had just made the 1.000.000 km mark! That´s right, no mistake, there was a million kms Mercedes taxi still working in Lisbon.
I live near Stuttgart. It is in a "Kessel", which means, it is surrounded by hills, that stunts natural city growth towards the outskirts. That is why it is among the smallest state capitals in Germany. The museum in question is basically in the industrial zone of the city, surrounded by industry.
The Mercedes 500E is hands down the best looking sedan ever built. I'd give anything to get my hands on one. It's been my dream car since I was a kid.
They are probably flying the drone with the full FPV helmet and controlling the drone with head/arm movement. I've tried it once, you literally turn into a jet-hawk, a jethawk! One of the most bonkers thing i've experienced, flying a drone like that.
A Brit here, great reactions BTW…….I went to that museum and had a tour of the factory with my 4 year on son when I picked up my E class from the Stuttgart factory in 2001, which I then drove back to UK (on the autobahns at 100mph ) via Eurostar tunnel, well I was running the car in!……..……..great experience and all paid for by Mercedes Benz!!!!!! ……..
The museum was opened in 2006
@@NiHe999 Well, there was a museum there when I went and it was very impressive…….in the early 2000s one could chose where one picked up the car, ie, at your local dealer or MB would fly you over to Stuttgart, business class, put you up in a 4 star hotel, give you a tour of the factory and museum and then hand over your car with a full tank of fuel and a Eurostar tunnel ticket back to the UK……..it was a company car as well so it didn’t cost me a penny………😁
@@NiHe9992006 is just for the current Building.
When i worked for mercedes as an intern, at the other side of the museums street, it went there like 2-3 times a month when i had time. Its such a great museum and you see new things you missed the time before with each visit. You can really get close to the cars but of course since its a museum no touching 😊
5:40 - that's one of the most famous Mercedes models. An SL 300 Gull Wing from the 50s. With those, they won several races. It was the fastest sports car of its time with a Vmax of 237 km/h.
also what inspired the modern Supercars, the SLS and AMG GT
@@alinadornieden8411yes, those were heavily inspired by the 300 SL (as was almost every sports car produced by Mercedes later on).
that was a 300 SLR uhlenhaut coupe, 2 of them were made for competition, one has just been made by HK Engineering from the original pattern, parts and moulds
@@uncle_matulatrue, an Uhlenhaut Coupé. The normal 300 SL is the one with the open Gull Wing doors to the left. My bad.
If this is on your bucket list: hit me up when you're in town. There's also the Porsche museum 10 miles away and tons of other stuff to check out.
Sinsheim the technical museum is a must see for every car enthusiast
Fun fact, most Mercedes registrations per resident are in a district with the license plate ST but that doesn't stand for Stuttgard but for Steinfurt in Münsterland
7:55 This is a "popemobile" from John Paul II, a modified Mercedes-Benz 230 G.
10:25 That would be the T80, a land speed record car made by Mercedes-Benz in the 1930s. It was the pet project of well-renowned German racing driver Hans Stuck, who wanted to be known as the fastest man in the world, and sought to set an absolute land speed record for it. Herr Stuck was going to be the one at the wheel.
This 8-meter long, six-wheeled monster, was to be powered by the Daimler Benz DB 603, an inverted V12 aircraft engine with a displacement of 44.5 liters and making 3,000 horsepower. The engine ran on a special mixture of methyl alcohol (63%), benzene (16%), ethanol (12%), acetone (4.4%), nitrobenzene (2.2%), avgas (2%), and ether (0.4%) with MW (methanol-water) injection for charge cooling and as an anti-detonant.The aerodynamic bodywork was designed by none other than Dr. Ferdinand Porsche. The chassis had three axles, two in the rear to support the engine and one at the front. The target speed was originally going to be 600 km/h (373 mph), but when John Cobb set the 600 km/h land speed record in 1939, they upped the target speed to 750 km/h (466 mph) instead.
They never got to make the land speed record attempt because of the outbreak of WWII, during which the T80's engine was removed and the rest of the car itself was squirreled away in a garage in Austria. The T80 survived the war and has since become a permanent exhibit at the Mercedes-Benz museum.
Germany had very sophisticated wind tunnels which were able to deliver pretty high speeds.
@@V100-e5q Speaking of the wind tunnels, they did make a wind tunnel model of the T80 during the vehicle's development.
8:50 The Mercedes 300 on the right was the last Limousine of Konrad Adenauer, Gemanys first post-war Chancellor.
The car on the left is the Mercedes-Benz 600 Pullman state limousine used from 1963 for 30 Years to chauffeur visiting heads of states.
There‘s also a huge VW Park in Wolfsburg - You need a whole day to experience everything including (pre-booked) 4x4 drive range and pick-up area for newly bought cars
I'm not really a car buff (though I like watching your channel and learn along with you) but I did visit the Mercedes museum a couple years ago, because of the history mostly... This is museum is so beautiful, we spend about 8 hours going from top to bottom, because there is just soooo much to see and read about... A must visit for a car guy!!
If you look down on the door at the entrance, it's the Merc logo. Here in South Australia, we had Merc buses, they were far superior to the M.A.N. and Scania's. Our ambulances are Mercs also.
In Germany we still have Most of these vehicle build by Mercedes. busses, ambulances, workvans, trucks, taxis, police cars. Very prominent
08:00 The Pope's car
Popemobile.
3:40 That bus is from Argentina, that LO1112 diesel Mercedes served in the Buenos Aires Metropolitan Area (AMBA for the initials in spanish) from 1969 up until 1984, the colors and paintings on the bus body are known as "fileteado" or "fileteado porteño", a very popular hand paint styling from the streets of Buenos Aires since the late 1800s.
8:27 The Black Mercedes 190 next to the car with the crazy paint job belonged to Nicholas Cage.
AMG ONE is a real beast. Had the pleasure to sit in one and hear the freaking engine running. Absolutely amazing.
The museum is a must when in Stuttgart. Parts of the production are right behind the museum. It is like a city of its one.
5:45 That is one of two 1955 300 SLR Uhlenhaut Coupés. It has a 300 horsepower strait eight which accelerates the 900kg vehicle to north of 180 mph...
The other car was auctioned some time ago for 135 million euros. The money funds a woldwide scholarship programm.
The W125 car behind the T80 is also a record holder it set a 1 kilometre record on a closed section of autobahn in 1938 at 432kph or 269mph which remained the highest speed on a public road for 79 years until broken in 2017.
yep, was the "flying 1 Kilometer" and i think also flying mile before it was broken by an Koenigsegg Agera RS driven in Nevada (back W125 drove on an german Highway); sadly on the same day the "rival" driver from Auto Union back them (Bernd Rosemeyer) lost his live after a strong wind gush pushed him of the round
Hey there Ian, these videos are always great, so thanks for doing them!
The "Gullwing" at 6:20 is a very special car for German post-war automotive culture. As you can see in the video, the brilliant frame of the vehicle is pretty wide so the roof hinged doors were supposedly a purely practical solution when implemented but of course helped in making this car stand out. It was built from '54 to '57, powered by a 3 Liter fuel injected SOHC inline 6 with just over 200bhp@5800rpm, the fuel injection being pretty revolutionary at the time. It's got pretty tall gears for a 4 speed but since this car only weighs 1300kg, it'll accelerate steadily (0-60mph in 10seconds lol) up to it's top speed of 237km/h. The true marvel of this car is it's chassis, though: it's a full steel tube construction, making the extended door sills necessary for structural rigidity. I'm currently building a model of it :)
Edit: The S600 at 8:48 is a fantastic example of complete over engineering everything on a matter of principle because when your clientele are sheiks and executives of recently overthrown countries, money is no object. Every moving appliance in this car from the trunk lid, the suspension to the windows is run on a VERY COMPLEX hydraulic system. The interior is exquisite. The engine is a monster. Apparently Gaddafi owned at least one.
You have to take a look at the 1955 Mercedes 300SLR.
The Sound of this Mercedes is unbelievable!
And it is the most expensive Car in the World.
I was fortunate to be there in 2016 ( 2017? ) it was a spectacular experience...we havent had much time so I had to rush a bit through it, so I couldnt read all the info, but still...was an amazing experience.
We had the electronic audio guides, that tells you about the cars and stuff if you punch in the number that is also written on the info tablets....and those audio guides were handing on mercedes brand lanyards, which - after the end of the tour - we could keep.
At that time (and also still today) I drove a Mercedes, and after that, I hooked that lanyard to my MB keys and still have it on today...althought the name wore off a bit, and got dirty a bit :D I still have it on.
The 300SL gullwing is an icon of an automobile. One of the most expensive, too. You have to spend millions to get one.
In 2021 I was fortunate enough to visit this wonderful museum. It is even more amazing in person. And there were fairly few people due to Covid restrictions.
12:08 in this shot you can see the Stadium of VfB Stuttgart on the left (once called Mercedes-Benz Arena, now MHP Arena) and on the right is one of their biggest factories with around 12.000 people working there, as well as the heatquater.
Greetings and Love from Germany again. Here's an Info bout the Mercedes you've been wondering bout. The white one with this special paint job, that looks like an Artwork of Picasso.
In May 2015, the German rapper, who always appears in a panda mask and has been a Mercedes-Benz brand ambassador since 2013, transformed a Mercedes-Benz CLA Street Style into a work of Art, using spray cans, touch-up pens and paint. Just like a Graffiti artist. The car was then shown throughout Germany during the Mercedes-Benz Roadshow and then handed over to the lucky winner who took part in this charity raffle.
Oh, and btw. you didn't asked how those huge, great and very long Trucks and Busses came up to the 4-5 Floor of the Museum...😅 have a peaceful weekend and stay safe, buddy
@5:00 Answer from me "That's why we in Germany have T-shirts with the print...!
"If I want to drive a Benz, I'll call a taxi!"
@ 5:36 that is the best example for a Taxi Cap..... take note : inná olde times Taxis wear Black in Germany and that was the "Standard" befor they change to , what we nowadays call "Taxi white"
Nope. The colour is called "hellelfenbein (RAL 1015)" => light ivory.
It's not white at all and between Berlin and Bochum I never heard that from a taxidriver.
In English, you only "drive" a road or rail vehicle (except motor bikes and bicycles) if you personally sit behind the steering wheel, in all other cases you "ride" a vehicle (cars, buses, trains, etc.). So the translated shirt slogan ought to be, "If I want(ed) to ride a Benz, I('d) call a taxi." This differentiation does not exist in the German language where you use the verb "fahren" for both.
@@berlindude75 Well, it kinda does, we have "fahren" for driving and "mitfahren" for "riding", leading to beautiful compound words as "Mitfahrgelegenheit" ≈ "Opportunity to ride along".
But it's true that "fahren" is used for driving and riding here.
@@Justforvisit The verb "mitfahren" consists of the stem verb "fahren" and the verb particle "mit". The same you have in English with "ride along" (stem verb "ride" and verb particle "along"), it's just not written as a single word. In German, this verb particle also becomes detached in inflections: "Wir nahmen unser Auto und sie fuhr (mit uns) mit." = "We took our car and she rode along (with us)."
The gullwing doors where first featured on the 300 SL, simply out of necassaty.
They made the car so low and the door seals so high , that a normal door just wouln't fit.
The gullwing was the solution.
Yep, we did this last year and it is impressive. It was 37C at the time and the aircon was flat out trying to cope. We are both petrolheads, and spent a long time here. The story of world events (not all car related) as the timescale progresses is told by wall panels, and I read them all -very well done. There was mention of the company's total compliance with the Third Reich but it wasn't dwelt on!! Oh, and it was very reasonably priced too. €12 or something, time unlimited.
Good wishes from Germany. That Museum is 30min away from me. The biggest thin about that Museum is. There Are not so many Stairs. The hole Building you can Walk Like a hill. It is an Screw Building.
Even when german engineering screws up it doesn't actually screw up 🤣
Did you realize that the entrance door with the three panes has the shape of a Mercedes star? ;) These museums are really creative.
This museum has set the "standard" for other manufacturers auto-museums, at least in Germany. The building looks much smaller than it really is ;)
What is missing in the beginning of the video is the so intersting elevators (lifts?) that take you up to the top floor where you walk down the history of Mercedes-Benz.
On the top floor there is no "Mercedes" as Mercedes wasn't "invented" until later - it was all Karl Benz with the first patented automobile and then Gottlieb Daimler & Wilhelm Maybach with their motorcycle (the first in the world) and then cars. Mercedes as a brand wasn't born until decades later.
6:21 - That's the car that invented 'gull-wing' doors. 1950s SL 300 coupe.
"Stuttgart looks pretty, You can see parts of the city - it's got some big hills..."
Well, no. Most of the buildings are Mercedes factory grounds or company parking lots/garages. It's pretty much 100% Mercedes (well, 75-80ish%). And it's all industrial suburbs, too.
The 'hills' are quite interesting, tho. Every hill in that area is a vinyard. And they make good wine. How do I know? That's 2 miles from my place. :D
On my bucket list too. My first car here in Finland was a -86 W124, back in- 99. It was a great car and I have had seven different models of 124 since that. A W140, W210, W203, W211 etc etc...140 was my favourite.
-Finnish person.
Greetings from Germany. Funny, I visited the Mercedes-Benz Museum with my daughter two weeks ago and the next day the Porsche-Museum. You should check this out as well.
Your enthusiasm is brilliant! Thank you for the video!
There was a documentary in the UK about the Pre-WW2 Grand Prix and land speed record cars (called Hitler's Supercars, if I'm remembering correctly) within the context of their use in Nazi Germany's sportswashing.
Towards the end of that documentary, they modeled that T 80 land speed record car from its blueprints and ran 2 computer simulations on it, one for drag, and one for downforce.
They concluded that the car's power and drag would have been enough to take the record, but most of its downforce was generated at the rear, behind the rear wheels [Edit: It also produced lift at the front]. It likely would have backflipped if it actually ran.
Hmm...would the record still count if it backflipped but made a perfect Moonsault, landed back on all 4 wheels and kept on driving?
Just being silly here, just had that funny image in my head
7:56 was the pape mobile no ?
The Benz Museum also has the world record for the highest artificial tornado, that's their anti smoke system in case of a fire ( ruclips.net/video/DvK8D0VNumQ/видео.html )
The 'prototype Le Mans type cars' were Group C cars, raced from 1982-1992 in the World Sportscar Championship. Mercedes competed in cooperation with Sauber from 1985-1991. They would return in 1997 to the FIA GT Championship (the spiritual successor) in the GT1 class. They only competed 2 years, withdrawing from GT sports after the Mercedes-Benz CLR proved to be aerodynamically unstable in close battles with other cars. This led to drivers going airborne on the straight after Mulsanne corner. Freakishly, both drivers (Webber and Dumbreck) crashed almost exactly at the same point of the track.
9:08 Mercedes CLK-GTR ❤ Ever since "Need For Speed III - Hot Pursuit" I fell in love with that thing.
That first Gullwing with the sidepipes is one out of two 300 SLR Uhlenhaut Coupé, the other one costs 135 million euros and is the most expensive car ever sold.
I was there and in the Porsche museum in 2015 it was awesome.
In Germany, there is a fairly rigorous traineeship/apprenticeship in any kind of profession. I don't know how it is in this museum, but at the Deutsche Bahn Museum, all the scale replicas of historic trains and lots of the repairs on the real trains were done by apprentices in the apprentice workshop. Perfect blend of learning and doing something productive. I can well imagine that the old cars in the museum were either restored or replicated by Mercedes Benz trainees...
I went to the Museum in 2022. I must have spent almost an hour taking in the 300 SLR Uhlenhaut Coupe alone. One of the best cars ever built, and now officially the most expensive production car ever.
Don't worry. None of the customer AMG Project ONE's will see road or track. They'll sit in collectors garage connected to a battery tender under a nice microfibre car cover
It also has actual Formula 1 engine. And even in this "road" configuration you can only drive it for 31.000 km before complete rebuild.
In US Mercedes, BMW and Audi are considered luxury cars, while in Europe they're a little more expensive commuter cars. Merc E-classes (even new 2020+ W213 and soon W214 generation) are used as taxis in Germany and almost all are painted in beige color
6:03 that right there is a 1955 Mercedes-Benz 300 SLR Uhlenhaut Coupé (1 of 2 ever built), the most expensive car ever sold on auction. It was sold for $135 million to anonymous buyer. I'm not sure if the one in the video was sold or the 2nd one
7:45 F1 used Mercedes AMG safety and medical cars exclusively from 1996 until 2021 when Aston Martin were added alongside AMG cars. And AM Vantage uses AMG 4.0l engine from AMG GT so you could say it's still an AMG safety car
Here a video of S204 C63 AMG Medical car ruclips.net/video/nqRfwix-ntg/видео.html
8:26 a lot of 1980s-1990s Mercedes' were dual painted. I read it somewhere why, but can't find it anymore. Even base spec versions
8:39 CLA is probably similar to BMW Art car
8:49 to quote Jeremy Clarkson: "People who had a 600 almost always had access to an air force."
10:23 Mercedes-Benz T80. It's 6 wheeled also. Designed by Ferdinand Porsche (yes, that Ferdinand) and was intended to break the world land speed record, but never made the attempt, due to the project having been overtaken by the outbreak of World War II. (as shown later in the video) The one right to it is W125 Rekordwagen
Drone footage is not CGI. It's real and they used FPV (first person view) drone. Basically you have FPV goggles similar to Apple Vision Pro and radio controller (similar to RC car controller) and drone is the size of Apple iPad (some are bigger, some are smaller)
The Mercedes museum is quite cool. What you don't really see is the museum starts on the top floor and has a double spiralling walkway down showing both commercial and private transportation. At the centre top is the original motor Carl Benz designed, a single cylinder engine that within its first year powered a car, a boat and an airship!
The glas box at 7:53 is the popemobile. They built, armored and gifted that to Pope John Paul II.
You need to react to the porsche museum, it is also in Stuttgart
Cool video - thanks! You should google the Uhlenhaut Coupé - thats the Silver one you didn`t know obviously. Its one of the most expensive cars on earth if not the most expensive one ;-) The one with the Gullwing Doors is the 500 SL which was also called the Gullwing. Thats a legendary car as well and they are also very expensive for a good reason. The Museum is a must when you are around Stuttgart and I have been there about 5 times already. Also go to the Porsche Museum then as it is also located in Stuttgart. Its great as well but smaller of course.
Maybe the PS.Speicher in the German town Einbeck may be interesting too. Its the presentation of parts of the collection of more than 2600 bikes, motorcycles, cars and trucks from all around the automotive history in an old warehouse on 25000 m². All vehicles original or restaurated, running and regularly moving to conventions, rallies, and so on. The donator of his collection owned the worlds largest motorcycle collection and the worlds largest small cars collection. Maybe you should have a look for some of their videos here on youtube.
Just this week I visited the Unimog museum in the town of Gaggenau. You can find viodeos on RUclips about that aswell if you're interested.
The Porsche museum is also in Stuttgart btw 😉 Just visited it recently
3:00 I love that very early car where you have two benches facing each other and the driver looks ahead but has to look past the passengers in front of him to see the road.😄Even that early on, they should have realised that's not a great idea.
While they should have realised that's not a great idea, but at the same time, most early cars had top speed of 24-32 km/h (15-20 mph)
Safety wasn't taken as a consideration back then
Before I go to a PORCUPINE TREE concert in Stuttgart, I visit this museum....very cool.
Btw...I work for the VW-PASSAT-FACTORY for 42 years and now I am retired
Check out the indoor tornado which can be created to remove smoke in case of a fire.
The elevators in the Museum are very futuristic looking, too.
You really need to check out the german car tuner BRABUS. Car tuning next level. They only do Mercedes Benz AMG and Porsche though.....
Das Museum ist wirklich faszinierend! Man fährt in einem Lift nach oben und geht durch das ganze Museum bergab. Ausergwwöhnlich sind die Spezialfahrzeuge wie z.B. "der blaue Wal". Den musst du dir anschauen. in der Nähe ist auch das Porschemuseum, da muss ich noch hin!
Shame on me. It`s not the blue wale, it`s the blue wonder 😅
one can usually program drones to fly certain paths (also how it should rotate or focus on, view points) - and with certain patterns. one can also let it follow you (from all kind of distances and angles) while you move (per pedes, bike, car, whatever) - or circles around you while moving and so on ....
The Porsche Museum is also extremely nice.
In case you‘ll visit the miniature Wunderland in Hamburg, also take a look into the car museum near by - it’s small compared to those others but has some gems of different automakers on show
Ian,
You should also check out the Schlumpf Bugatti museum in Mulhouse, France
That silver racecar on in the middle of the racetrack looks like a group C Sauber c9, those things could top over 240 mph in the late 80s.
From a 80's 90's perspective in the Netherlands, Mercedes had no small cars, yet (A series, B series etc.). It was a very high middle class brand (200 C). Taxi drivers (240 E), Contractors (240 E stationwagon), more expensive models (500 SEL) for diplomats and corporate SEO's.
Back in the olden days of formula One some countries had national colours they raced under, Italy was/is Italian red, Germany was/is silver, France was/is racing blue and England was/is racing green
Sounds like Ian should look into drone racing, just remember to add content warnings for possible seasickness and melted brains.
It's that drone footage multiple times faster in much tighter spaces, incredibly fascinating to watch if your head and stomach can handle it.
So a highly skilled racing drone pilot would have the knowledge and experience to do that as easily as driving on a sunny and lazy Sunday day trip.
Please Ian look into those videos, you'll be gobsmacked with the level of speed they can cope with.
Porsche also has an incredible museum in Zuffenhausen. The collection is smaller than M-B, but, no less spectacular.
8:30 to 8:33 in the background the grey mighty open tourer cabriolet is the last car of German Emperor Wilhelm II. From 1931 MB 770 Grosser Pulman Cabriolet F, four doors six windows eight passenger version, flip seats for 2 bodyguards. 7.7 liter inline 8 supercharger 150/200 bhp . Weight 3.5 tons
Beside the grey car , red limousine, 770 großer without superchargers 1935. Gift of The German government to emperor Hirohito of Japan the Tenno…
And in Stuttgart gives 4 Factorys in the next of the Museum . And in Stuttgart Zuffenhausen is the Porsche factory and the Porsche Museum.
7:53 The white one with the glass body is the Mercedes 230 G Papa Mobil from 1980. Papa Mobil = Pope's Car
The drone video is not computer generated. I've worked with some of the people who were involved in making it. Apparently they had a very good drone pilot and did a lot of practice runs. I'm not sure whether there may be some hidden cuts, though.
As you said, seeing the museum in person is a much better experience still. The vehicles are awesome of course, but it goes far beyond that. They don't only display the cars, they also put them in the historical context that explain what life, and work, was like at the time.
For example, at one point they show a bottle of lemonade. Why? Because in the early 20th century it was common for workers in manufacturing to dring apple cider at work. But workers always being slightly drunk posed a safety risk. So the factory provided lemonade instead.
8:58 These are the postwar cars from Mercedes that were sold under the title „ Grosser“ Mercedes a humble way for DB to mark a car for country leaders.
The 600 produced handmade between 1963 to 1981 and the 300 produced handmade 1951 to 1962, this is 300d or Mark4 , 3.0 liters aluminum 6 fuel injection 160 bhp topspeed 170 kmh.
You should definitely check out the two German pigs, the AMG red pig and the Porsche pink pig, both great cars and worthy of there own video
Hi Ian. Have you ever heard about the Mercedes C111 . There were only 10 built.
Is it me or is the spinning door at the beginning is a merc badge when he looks down in the floor
Hope you'll also check out the Porsche Museum, especially the "Drone Flight Tour" so to speak on their official channel.
I'm living only 20 km from the Mercedes-Benz museum in Untertürkheim...👍🤘And 10 km from the AMG and HWA factory in Affalterbach...🤓
It's like a two hour drive between Stuttgart (Mercedes museum, Porsche museum) and Ingolstad (Audi).
Nurenberg is nearby as well, all should visit that museum for quite different reasons.
And then of course, from Ingolstadt it is a four hour drive to Prague. From where it is another hour to the Škoda Muzeum*, just saying. ;-)
It is just lovely driving around in Germany on obviously great roads among the castles, schnitzels and beers.
* You'll literally drive through Pilsen get to there.
I've been there. The day I went (2019) next door was Pink's concert and it was hell to go inside. Bought several die cast Gullwings for presents
8:50 The one the left might be Elvis's car. He definitely had that model.
Of the T80 they've made an official reproduction of the rolling chassis in 2017/2018, including a partially sectioned engine but similar to the intended DB603 V12.
The drone pilot is flying an FPV drone, he flies manually and has goggles. He's certainly experienced and although I could probably get the same kind of shots, I would be so scared flying arround all those expensive and legendary cars.
Check out some acro fpv videos! (not necessarily for reaction)
Speaking of the T80, you should also look up W125 rekordwagen. There's a video of it doing a top speed run on the autobahn. It held the fastest speed on public road until koenigsegg took its throne 79 years later
Ian you have seen the 300 SL but near it there was the 300SLR Uhlenhaut, the hard top one, there are (I think) only two and the other one that is not in the Musseum was sold for 135.000.000 US$
The American should travel and experience the German museums. I think i like the Wolfsburg museum Autostadt most. Visited the Mercedes and Porsche museum last summer.
I was there a week go and yes, that Museum is top notch
the best race series on tarmac still are the old DTM, V8 Star, BMW 700 Cup and the Historic Touring Car up to 1300cc (Kampf der Zwerge).
"That thing" is best described by it's name; the Popemobile.
Amazing place and videos, definetly a must check for any motor fan!
6:11 that silver 300SL is the most expensive car ever sold… worth over 120million€
The revolving door to the museum is a three pointed Mercedes star.