Back in the days 200 km/h seemed really fast, today its nothing to get exited about. I had a Opel Astra 1.9l Diesel estate, that could do 210 km/h on a cool night on the Autobahn. And it only used 7.5l / 100km doing that, not 18l like the Mercedes 280
Well you should take into consideration that your Opel was made from majority plastic & tin parts. Don't compare a 50 year old car by today's standards!!!!
@@AB-pl1ko I actually learnt something today. I thought they were all 4 speed manuals because my dad's later model W123 and W124 are both 4 speed. One manual and one auto
@@teamangie2051 - The optional 5-speed on W113 cars was made by ZF. The normal 4-speeds seen in the W113 and other MB models such as the W123 were built in house by Mercedes. From what I understand by the time the W124 was introduced, MB offered a 5-speed as standard?
Many owners replace the rear axle assembly with the rear axle assembly from a W108 4.5 V-8 sedan. That gives a 3.27 final drive and drops the rpm, at "normal" freeway speed, by about 800-900. The other "upgrade" that makes them more enjoyable on the freeway, is to put on a set of larger 14" tires. This gets the tire diameter closer to the diameter of the original bias-ply tires that the cars came with. So a 195/75R-14 or a 205 width tire. I've done this to my '66 W111 Coupe (4 on the floor and electric sliding sunroof), and it's made the car fantastic, both around town, or on the freeway. It was the first thing I did, after purchasing the car in April '92.
Sadly from 2030 on all combustion cars including classics will be banned from public streets in entire EU and Scandinavia :-( In Germany the Green Peoples Party gave order to shorten fuel supply from 2025 on by reducing all conventional fuel stations to only one state operated central gas station per city or county. Now they want to slow down all the gas station fuel pumps from 20 litre per minute to 2 litre per minute...From 2027 on in the EU certain car spare parts will be banned too....as exhaust systems, turbo chargers and even some engine and gearbox oils...California and New York will do the same from 2027 on.... So no investments should be done in oil burning cars any longer....They even created a new kind of crime here, called emissions and smoke crime.
These Mercedes from this era were probably the best all around cars available.
Beautiful, fast, safe, reliable.
They were the pinnacle.
I could watch a video of this car driving all day 💓
Das alt auto ist super, sehr schön und elegant. Die beste Qualität ❤
What a beautiful, smooth running car. I love it!
Fabulous !!
I watch this video everyone's I'm having a bad day, thank you kind sir.
Doing what it was born to do
Gorgeous car
Driving in seat belt less cars always makes me kinda anxious :D
😂😂😂I drove such cars for half of my life, no worries…
totally satisfy
pre seat belt option model
Year of car?
it from 50's
Back in the days 200 km/h seemed really fast, today its nothing to get exited about. I had a Opel Astra 1.9l Diesel estate, that could do 210 km/h on a cool night on the Autobahn. And it only used 7.5l / 100km doing that, not 18l like the Mercedes 280
Tu opel astra era una puta mierda
Well you should take into consideration that your Opel was made from majority plastic & tin parts. Don't compare a 50 year old car by today's standards!!!!
Have a red one just like this, 4 speed, Euro 280SL. 5000rpm easy
No air bags carefully
I had 2 of them I’d hate that in left hand drive madness they are a lot cheaper half price and forget Manual not for me
5th gear would be great
- a 5-speed transmission was an option back in the day, but was rarely chosen. Most W113's were automatics.
@@AB-pl1ko I actually learnt something today. I thought they were all 4 speed manuals because my dad's later model W123 and W124 are both 4 speed. One manual and one auto
@@teamangie2051 - The optional 5-speed on W113 cars was made by ZF. The normal 4-speeds seen in the W113 and other MB models such as the W123 were built in house by Mercedes. From what I understand by the time the W124 was introduced, MB offered a 5-speed as standard?
@@AB-pl1ko 4 speed auto and 5 speed manual on W124
Many owners replace the rear axle assembly with the rear axle assembly from a W108 4.5 V-8 sedan. That gives a 3.27 final drive and drops the rpm, at "normal" freeway speed, by about 800-900. The other "upgrade" that makes them more enjoyable on the freeway, is to put on a set of larger 14" tires. This gets the tire diameter closer to the diameter of the original bias-ply tires that the cars came with. So a 195/75R-14 or a 205 width tire. I've done this to my '66 W111 Coupe (4 on the floor and electric sliding sunroof), and it's made the car fantastic, both around town, or on the freeway. It was the first thing I did, after purchasing the car in April '92.
Beide Hände ans Lenkrad LOL. Es gibt keinen 5.Gang 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Natürlich, das auto ist alt aber sehr cool 🎉 die beste!
Gloves.
Sadly from 2030 on all combustion cars including classics will be banned
from public streets in entire EU and Scandinavia :-( In Germany the
Green Peoples Party gave order to shorten fuel supply from 2025
on by reducing all conventional fuel stations to only one state operated central gas
station per city or county. Now they want to slow down all the gas station fuel
pumps from 20 litre per minute to 2 litre per minute...From 2027 on in
the EU certain car spare parts will be banned too....as exhaust systems,
turbo chargers and even some engine and gearbox oils...California and
New York will do the same from 2027 on.... So no investments should be
done in oil burning cars any longer....They even created a new kind of
crime here, called emissions and smoke crime.
This car hauls ass for a 1960