the W108 is hella safe, the whole cabin is super rigid while trunk and engine bay are not, also the fire wall is shaped as to push transmission and engine downwards to deflect it from the passengers
Comfort over speed. Actually, comfort _and_ speed. Sure, not Ferrari fast, but this thing cam run pretty well. The 6.3 version was the world's fastest 4-door sedan back then. Also, an Autobahn cruiser, it could cruise at 130 mph all day long in the Autobahnen, and that's pretty impressive for a car from late 60's.
@@cyruswong9174 Exactly. 🍷🗿 Even if that is merely a tribute, because the AMG-designed/AMG-built M156 engine that powered the models sporting the -63 sufix and the "6.3" badge in the front fenders was actually a 6.2. 👀
@@StarFroggo Yeah, I often struggle with the keyboard on the phone because the letters are too close to each other. 🗿 I'm aware of the typo's, but since editing the post would remove the "like/heart" by the video uploader, I decided to keep it that way.
Not as bad as you think, it was among the first cars to feature crumple zones engineered into the body, the steering column was telescoping and the steering wheel was mounted on a special hub that collapsed on impact. Probably the safest car of the late 60s/early 70s.
Not strictly built to race at Le Mans-it was Spa it is most well known for, and came second overall-but DID make it to Le Mans for the 4 hour test in 1972.
It feels weird to call this beauty old when i see it like 70% of the time in my country since its still used...my dad still drives the Mercedes 300 SE 1990.. that thing is also a beauty
Beautiful car and mod...I saw the cars IRL a few times in my childhood. They just glided through traffic :) Edit: Just tried the mod - it deserves 5/5 stars.
@michaelramsey82 Yeah. The older Japanese cars make sense. I was just curious if the devs got some inspiration from the Mercedes car, too. Not really sure... 🤷
@@AdaBow10yeah, the devs like to take inspirations from several cars , in making one of their own. The blue buck is one of my favorites for that reason. A Bluebuck is a similar animal to an Impala. But the devs also took early 60s Chrysler and Ford styling into consideration when making the blue buck as well.
I have one of those in real life it's a 1969 benz 280se with the 2.8l i6 and 4 speed manual it's a nice car the cam in the engine needs to be replaced but it'll run forever.
What it is, Neil…I’m in Richmond but I’m at the hospital getting stitches cause my dummy ass cut my arm pretty bad at work. You know where to find it if you wanna see it. Anyways I get to catch up on your content while getting stitches in Richmond, how do you like that haha. Stay righteous, guy.
Modern cars are made to be crushed after 5 years of use, old cars will last decades as long as you keep the rust at bay and do general maintanance...and can find parts after 25 years...something I am struggling with right with my daily.
Neil neil neil.. screw volvo.. Nakajima invented the force latch, as a way to alow for flaps to be deployed at high speeds on aircraft back in WW2. The whole strap and latch was them.. putting it in a car, does not make one an inventor.
Classic European car in Italy, the police just thought you were part of the Mille Miglia. The police escort them through traffic and all sorts of crazy stuff. They'd probably get mad at you for not contravening road laws :)
all cars have tintet rear view mirrors. you can flip a little switch or turn them up or down and you can switch between dark and normal. actually nice if you drive at night and the bimmer in the rear shines his laser leds in your face.
@@Leo_Santisteban which one does not have? tell me 1 car. hard to believe since every car i had in my life had it. all our company cars have it too. old peugeot 106 gti had it. mitsubishi eclipse have it also. mitsubishi colt. mazda 2. mitsubishi spacestar. mercedes 114. firstz generation subaru impreza. second gen impreza. third gen impreza. opel campo. even an old saurer truck had it. possible but hard to believe....
The reason why old cars are considered "better" is because yes, your risk of dying is higher in a crash, BUT But But. If you survive you don't have to throw away the whole car cause it's squashed like a tomato and you have to do fewer repairs, if you die you don't have to worry about repairing your car. You don't have to worry about anything, you're dead
Thank you for addressing the myth about old cars being "safer"! I've had that argument with boomers in Facebook car groups so many times, and it gets old so fast. "bAcK iN mY dAy We HaD nO aIrBaGs AnD wE wErE fInE" - yes, grampa, and all the people who weren't fine aren't here to share their side of the story, are they? Yes, older cars may have survived crashes with less cosmetic damage, but that was at the expense of the occupants. Modern cars are designed to sacrifice themselves to save the people inside.
Old Mercs are one of the exceptions to this rule. Even as far back as the previous generation to this-the W111-Mercedes was already designing in crumple zones and a safety cell structure. Quite literally decades before some companies even considered this.
Oh, I've got a little old metal toy car of that thing. I found it in a pile of dirt from a house my dad tore down for someone many years ago. Ima try to find it!
Classic Mercedes were built to last. You might die in a significant collision (significant being key as these were actually quite safe cars as others have mentioned), but the car will live on for your family to drive for decades after, unlike anything from the last decade which will be scrapped from electrical failures or manufacturers dropping parts support for them. I don't understand driving expecting to crash. Safety tech only aims to reduce the severity of injuries in a collision, a rare event in driving, but it increases the risk people take while driving, therefore increasing the chances of being in a crash where your life depends on it. Put a spike in the middle of the steering wheel of every vehicle on the roads, and maybe actually educate people before giving them a licence, America, and you'd have far less risky driving and subsequent incidents occur. If you're actually concerned about crashing, 'Reg Local' is a good youtube channel to watch to learn how to drive to a far higher standard to avoid collisions to begin with. Known as 'advanced' in the UK, the Roadcraft/IAM/RoSPA level is what our emergency service drivers are taught to to be able to clock up to 150 mph on our roads safely, so it would dramatically improve your day to day driving to be able to be better prepared than even Teslas with all their sensors (that only react, never predict) for what can happen on the roads. If anyone looks at this 'advanced' level and thinks it's too much for them, you aren't truly committed to safe driving and any future collision you might be involved in will always have you as partly to blame for it, regardless of how insurance, etc divides up 'fault'. It might appear extreme compared to the basic test you passed to gain your licence, but that's just how extremely lacking *every* country's licence testing is, which the US amongst many others fall even further below. People shouldn't hold a licence if they can't drive to that 'advanced' level.
Hey Neil, little words of wisdom for you. You probably shouldnt make fun of what is more than likely to be, a good portion of your fan base throughout an entire video like this. Its a really good way to get yourself "canceled". When we say"built like a tank" we mean at normal day to day city road speeds. Where the fastest speed limit ive seen is 55mph. They will take the hit, yes, you will get hurt, but you shouldnt die, and unlike the other "new" car, yours will be fixable. I wrecked my classic pickup about 12 years ago,. head on doin about 45mph, had to be flatbeded home, but was only out of commission for a week before it was back on the road. The other vehicle was totaled. Whats funnier, is the other driver had more injuries than my due to all the safety equipment in his car. I was able to walk away with only a couple of bruised ribs. They had to go to the hospital. I was never told what for. Now, you get into a wreck on the highway above 50mph, lets be honest here, most of us are going a minimum of 70mph regardless of the actual speed limit, not only is the car going to be totaled regardless of its age, but there is also a very low probability of you coming out of it alive let alone uninjured. Most wrecks at highway speeds tend to be extremely violent in such a way that the safety tech wont matter, and if ima die in a car wreck, I at least wanna die in something cool. Im sorry, but a smart car just isnt cool. Unless its been k-swapped in which case its just down right dangerous which is what makes it fun/cool. Now for some education since you dont seem to want to educate yourself on your own. 1st - Mercedes has always been an industry leader for new technology so they will always have the cutting edge tech for a few years before it trickles down into the rest of the industry. 2nd - Setbelts were first invented in 1959 by Volvo but wasnt made mandatory until 1968. Thats almost 10 years that seatbelts were an option that you could tick off on the order form when buying a new car. For that reason, there are still a ton of cars between 59 and 68 on the roads today that dont have seatbelts in them. However, even though they were optional, if your car was equipped with them, it was still mandatory for you to use them.
Its true if you crash a old car its a bigger chance to die but old cars is better in everything else i love the old cars design i wish they remade old cars with modern engines its a piece of art new cars is boring kompared to the old ones
the W108 is hella safe, the whole cabin is super rigid while trunk and engine bay are not, also the fire wall is shaped as to push transmission and engine downwards to deflect it from the passengers
Too true, it also had disc brakes all round. A modern feature at the time
And that steering wheel is designed to bend away just like those Citroëns
And real seatbelts by that point, none of the loose sash belts from the early days
Safe for the time at least
"Can you get out of here dude??"
Proceeds to fling him across the entire map. Don't know why that was so funny but it was. Love ya Neil!
I laughed my ass off seeing that🤣🤣
Comfort over speed.
Actually, comfort _and_ speed.
Sure, not Ferrari fast, but this thing cam run pretty well. The 6.3 version was the world's fastest 4-door sedan back then.
Also, an Autobahn cruiser, it could cruise at 130 mph all day long in the Autobahnen, and that's pretty impressive for a car from late 60's.
And part of the reason why the top AMG models are named "63" today can be traced back to that car. 🤟
@@cyruswong9174 Exactly. 🍷🗿
Even if that is merely a tribute, because the AMG-designed/AMG-built M156 engine that powered the models sporting the -63 sufix and the "6.3" badge in the front fenders was actually a 6.2. 👀
Oof, you were struggling to type at some points
@@StarFroggo Yeah, I often struggle with the keyboard on the phone because the letters are too close to each other. 🗿
I'm aware of the typo's, but since editing the post would remove the "like/heart" by the video uploader, I decided to keep it that way.
@@Roddy_Zeh i struggle with the mobile keyboard too, i feel ya
Not as bad as you think, it was among the first cars to feature crumple zones engineered into the body, the steering column was telescoping and the steering wheel was mounted on a special hub that collapsed on impact. Probably the safest car of the late 60s/early 70s.
That horn after the car landed 😭😭😂😂
It screamed out of anger 😭🤣
When
@@UngabungaMcgee the beginning segment, when he tosses the car off the bridge
💀💀💀🗿
i love old cars not because of how safe but they are just so beutiful they are
agree
Modern cars have additional safety because of the safety standards nowadays
No airbags, no abs, no ESP…we die like real men!
Thanks for reviewing my mod
0:24 "YEEET" - Greystillplays
I had a 1990 300E and honestly one of my favorite cars I’ve had. Also the interior wasn’t too far off from this one.
W124 was one of the best all-around cars ever, I wish I had kept mine longer!
As for speed. AMG built a version of this car to race at Le Mans. It was known as the red pig. Very fast, at least in a straight line
Not strictly built to race at Le Mans-it was Spa it is most well known for, and came second overall-but DID make it to Le Mans for the 4 hour test in 1972.
It feels weird to call this beauty old when i see it like 70% of the time in my country since its still used...my dad still drives the Mercedes 300 SE 1990.. that thing is also a beauty
Cuba?
That flight was elegance at its finest 😂
A classic car indeed ...great video as always Neil 😊
Beautiful car and mod...I saw the cars IRL a few times in my childhood. They just glided through traffic :)
Edit: Just tried the mod - it deserves 5/5 stars.
Love the GT3 music in the background.
A mod of an old Mercedes-Benz car huh? I like it! I wonder if its design was an inspiration to the Miramar as it came to my mind? 🤔
I think the Miramar is based more on '70s Japanese cars.
@michaelramsey82 Yeah. The older Japanese cars make sense. I was just curious if the devs got some inspiration from the Mercedes car, too. Not really sure... 🤷
@@AdaBow10 The styling might have taken some subtle cues from Mercedes. They do tend to mix and match parts from different cars.
@@michaelramsey82 Ah. Gotcha 👌
@@AdaBow10yeah, the devs like to take inspirations from several cars , in making one of their own. The blue buck is one of my favorites for that reason. A Bluebuck is a similar animal to an Impala. But the devs also took early 60s Chrysler and Ford styling into consideration when making the blue buck as well.
@8:20 is like a ski slalom race - even sounds like their shins slapping the poles
How do you make your thumbnails?
Any 80's volvo will survive everything
I have one of those in real life it's a 1969 benz 280se with the 2.8l i6 and 4 speed manual it's a nice car the cam in the engine needs to be replaced but it'll run forever.
Just before you leave the ramp, rip up the handbrake and try to spin like a top through the air
What it is, Neil…I’m in Richmond but I’m at the hospital getting stitches cause my dummy ass cut my arm pretty bad at work. You know where to find it if you wanna see it. Anyways I get to catch up on your content while getting stitches in Richmond, how do you like that haha. Stay righteous, guy.
I love old Mercs
Yes the newer cars may be safer but the newer car quality is not as good the older stuff the older car are better built.
Modern cars are made to be crushed after 5 years of use, old cars will last decades as long as you keep the rust at bay and do general maintanance...and can find parts after 25 years...something I am struggling with right with my daily.
Don’t forget that the older cars are less fuel efficient
My uncle had the eu version of that car and I've seen a couple in museums. They look as good irl
hey guys, how's it goiNG AND WELCOME BAck to beam n g drive
Really old cars can withstand a EMP.
Neil neil neil.. screw volvo.. Nakajima invented the force latch, as a way to alow for flaps to be deployed at high speeds on aircraft back in WW2. The whole strap and latch was them.. putting it in a car, does not make one an inventor.
I Love this mod
Neil: *Sees car*
Also Neil: *Throws car away to enhance the showcase.*
Congrats you watched the video
Classic European car in Italy, the police just thought you were part of the Mille Miglia. The police escort them through traffic and all sorts of crazy stuff. They'd probably get mad at you for not contravening road laws :)
I've seen those cars before, cool looking!
The car in the beginning, it just gave you the honk XD
First head-on collision in slo-mo was satysfiying.
Neil became a poet for a split second with all that rhyming and I will say it was actually kinda impressive
seatbelts were first used in a car in 40s, and seatbelts were invented in mid 19th century
and also first car to have airbags was mercedes in 1982
ok?
Need someone to make a w123 mod. Hand down my favourite classic mercedes ever.
I've owned two W123's, I miss them so much!
Hi Neil. I love old mercs.
Neilogical always make videos about what I'm thinking to do with BeamNG Drive. 🤔💯
that mod is crazy
No air bags we die like real men
my grandpa used owns this car, it's literally my dream car, few months ago i tried to find this car mod to add it to beamng but i wasn't able to
keep up the great work Neil
all cars have tintet rear view mirrors. you can flip a little switch or turn them up or down and you can switch between dark and normal. actually nice if you drive at night and the bimmer in the rear shines his laser leds in your face.
no not all cars do 💀
@@Leo_Santisteban which one does not have? tell me 1 car. hard to believe since every car i had in my life had it. all our company cars have it too. old peugeot 106 gti had it. mitsubishi eclipse have it also. mitsubishi colt. mazda 2. mitsubishi spacestar. mercedes 114. firstz generation subaru impreza. second gen impreza. third gen impreza. opel campo. even an old saurer truck had it.
possible but hard to believe....
The reason why old cars are considered "better" is because yes, your risk of dying is higher in a crash, BUT
But
But.
If you survive you don't have to throw away the whole car cause it's squashed like a tomato and you have to do fewer repairs, if you die you don't have to worry about repairing your car. You don't have to worry about anything, you're dead
Btw Neil some cars have auto dimming rear view cameras becasue of how bright some cars headlights can be.
hell yeah, ive seen one irl, a 300d , such a classic, all i know is that these things run forever
Thank you for addressing the myth about old cars being "safer"! I've had that argument with boomers in Facebook car groups so many times, and it gets old so fast. "bAcK iN mY dAy We HaD nO aIrBaGs AnD wE wErE fInE" - yes, grampa, and all the people who weren't fine aren't here to share their side of the story, are they? Yes, older cars may have survived crashes with less cosmetic damage, but that was at the expense of the occupants. Modern cars are designed to sacrifice themselves to save the people inside.
Old Mercs are one of the exceptions to this rule. Even as far back as the previous generation to this-the W111-Mercedes was already designing in crumple zones and a safety cell structure. Quite literally decades before some companies even considered this.
You could option safety belts in cars as early as the 1940's ding dong 😂
headlight, are the lights on the car's head Neilogical 2023 6:39
this was actually one of the first cars to have over the shoulder seatbelts. very much a pain in the ass to put on tho.
I think the reason everyone in Italy was after you is because you put pineapple on pizza.
"This car has seatbelts?" Like as in the 60s no seatbelts no airbags we all die.
These are pretty safe though. These are made in a period where Mercedes was actually Mercedes and built quality cars
finally a cool clasic car mod!
I've got an 84 w123 and from factory all the mirrors are tinted, it's a mercedes thing but usually it's a blue ish tint
Neil casually commits a Godly act... watches it happen...
AnyWaYS
The crashes…, and the car being thrown. Hilarious! And, I’m early for a video. Super cool,and great job!
Anyone know how to get the Bugatti Chiron mod in Beamng? I got the file in my file explorer, just dont know jow to put it in the game.
As long as your not going too fast, and you dont come to a stop instantly, crashes have a more favorable outcome.
sometimes Beamng thinks youre driving a police car. I've noticed it with a few mods. If you're a police car they wont chase you.
Someone needs to make a Mercedes Benz 600 for Beam
The w109 300 SEL 6.3 my pops had was a big boat that roll out with prejudice
That was funny. Thx for making me laugh. Does that bad boy come in manual transmission.
Keep up the good work with comodo
I honesty think the safest old car ever built is the Volvo 240 series
The Vievace be like: that was rude😢
Oh, I've got a little old metal toy car of that thing. I found it in a pile of dirt from a house my dad tore down for someone many years ago.
Ima try to find it!
Fact a californian car Shop called Gotham Garage turned this Car into a Driftbeast Equipet with a Chevy v8
So many lore-breaking mods......
*Rips car off of bridge*
"...Anyway,"
hey Neil u wanna know something the car that ur driving one of my neighbors has the same car
My grammar has that mercadies and still drives it
i lost it when the other car was YEEted
Hi
Isn’t this the same old Mercedes from the hangover? 💀
Stop bullying the AI
Classic Mercedes were built to last. You might die in a significant collision (significant being key as these were actually quite safe cars as others have mentioned), but the car will live on for your family to drive for decades after, unlike anything from the last decade which will be scrapped from electrical failures or manufacturers dropping parts support for them. I don't understand driving expecting to crash. Safety tech only aims to reduce the severity of injuries in a collision, a rare event in driving, but it increases the risk people take while driving, therefore increasing the chances of being in a crash where your life depends on it. Put a spike in the middle of the steering wheel of every vehicle on the roads, and maybe actually educate people before giving them a licence, America, and you'd have far less risky driving and subsequent incidents occur.
If you're actually concerned about crashing, 'Reg Local' is a good youtube channel to watch to learn how to drive to a far higher standard to avoid collisions to begin with. Known as 'advanced' in the UK, the Roadcraft/IAM/RoSPA level is what our emergency service drivers are taught to to be able to clock up to 150 mph on our roads safely, so it would dramatically improve your day to day driving to be able to be better prepared than even Teslas with all their sensors (that only react, never predict) for what can happen on the roads. If anyone looks at this 'advanced' level and thinks it's too much for them, you aren't truly committed to safe driving and any future collision you might be involved in will always have you as partly to blame for it, regardless of how insurance, etc divides up 'fault'. It might appear extreme compared to the basic test you passed to gain your licence, but that's just how extremely lacking *every* country's licence testing is, which the US amongst many others fall even further below. People shouldn't hold a licence if they can't drive to that 'advanced' level.
Yo Neil, how do you get such good renders for your thumbnails? TIA
So cool
Is the lack of throttle modulation because everybody plays using the keyboard as the controller or is that a BeamNG feature?
It's the keyboard. I use the mouse and throttle modulation is super smooth.
Awesome
Use crash dummies please lol
Hey Neil, little words of wisdom for you. You probably shouldnt make fun of what is more than likely to be, a good portion of your fan base throughout an entire video like this. Its a really good way to get yourself "canceled". When we say"built like a tank" we mean at normal day to day city road speeds. Where the fastest speed limit ive seen is 55mph. They will take the hit, yes, you will get hurt, but you shouldnt die, and unlike the other "new" car, yours will be fixable. I wrecked my classic pickup about 12 years ago,. head on doin about 45mph, had to be flatbeded home, but was only out of commission for a week before it was back on the road. The other vehicle was totaled. Whats funnier, is the other driver had more injuries than my due to all the safety equipment in his car. I was able to walk away with only a couple of bruised ribs. They had to go to the hospital. I was never told what for. Now, you get into a wreck on the highway above 50mph, lets be honest here, most of us are going a minimum of 70mph regardless of the actual speed limit, not only is the car going to be totaled regardless of its age, but there is also a very low probability of you coming out of it alive let alone uninjured. Most wrecks at highway speeds tend to be extremely violent in such a way that the safety tech wont matter, and if ima die in a car wreck, I at least wanna die in something cool. Im sorry, but a smart car just isnt cool. Unless its been k-swapped in which case its just down right dangerous which is what makes it fun/cool.
Now for some education since you dont seem to want to educate yourself on your own.
1st - Mercedes has always been an industry leader for new technology so they will always have the cutting edge tech for a few years before it trickles down into the rest of the industry.
2nd - Setbelts were first invented in 1959 by Volvo but wasnt made mandatory until 1968. Thats almost 10 years that seatbelts were an option that you could tick off on the order form when buying a new car. For that reason, there are still a ton of cars between 59 and 68 on the roads today that dont have seatbelts in them. However, even though they were optional, if your car was equipped with them, it was still mandatory for you to use them.
I assure you it’s not that serious man hah. Good info in this comment tho.
Cool
my car has been in 2 accidents and the frame is still straight along with suspension
here within 13 seconds sup neil
Love it
Name mod please?
You can just move your car to a different location
o wow
I wish there were some modern cars that still had this classic flair. All cars nowadays are ugly. Every one.
Its true if you crash a old car its a bigger chance to die but old cars is better in everything else i love the old cars design i wish they remade old cars with modern engines its a piece of art new cars is boring kompared to the old ones
What's the map name??
hehe germen brick
Why is no one talking about the car he fling into oblivion???
youd think you could talk and drive instead of spending a 1/4 of the 11 minute video on a bridge, stationary.
First
Nope
Nah am first
Quit yabalin@@Womp-Womp_-.176
FIRST!
No they don't build them like they use to