One of the best-built cars Mercedes-Benz ever made. One of the last cars that the engineers designed, not the accountants. These will run forever with proper maintenance. You bought one of these for the quality and the solid driving experience. If you wanted flash and gadgets, Cadillac was down the road. Mercedes-Benz lost its way when it started chasing after that market. This car is for eating up miles on the Autobahn. The blue leather looks fantastic and blue over silver exterior is classy. The W124 is such a simple stately design. The convertibles are pretty rare. The monowiper is trippy to see when it's raining and the headlight wipers are cool.
We had a 1995 E320 cabriolet. Absolutely wonderful car and built like a bank vault. It was red with chrome wheels. A van turned in front of us at a light and we hit it broadside. The car did exactly what it was supposed to do and we walked out without a scratch. I did cry to see my car damaged.
The Winter tire button is actually a special drive mode when driving in hefty winter with (in german) "Schneeketten" Which are actual metal chains being put on your tires. Seems to be a euro thing tho
I have to strenously disagree with your assesment of the diving/ride dynamics of these W124s. They are not soft boulevard cruisers. They're autobahn burners. You see, back in the day, it was common for well-handling European cars to have body-roll. It was purposely designed-into the chassis tuning. They rolled, but they were unflappable. Planted no matter what you through at them. Afterall, they were designed to take sweeping curves at 110-140 mph. (Today, people associate good handling with flatness, and that's not necessarily true). That was the miracle of these cars...soft and smooth up ultra planted and surefooted. And the engines were powerful but lazy. To get the full power, you had press the accelerator very hard and deep, and hold it there, then it would kick-down launch like a horse with a bee sting. Also, they started from stop in second gear--also a design feature that caused people to think they're slow.
Factory Radios again are always preferable to aftermarket, I'm gonna go so far to say that I would not finish the deal if the car doesn't have one, I would consider it to be butchered and not a complete vehicle.
I hired one of these to impress a girl I wanted to go out with. I was only 17 and did not have a licence so my dad had to drive it. We drove it to the girls wedding. I think I wasted my money 🤑
Oh for God’s sake. Do some research. The rest “headrests” are the most advanced rollover protection on the road at the time. If the sensors detect two wheels leaving the road and the car at an angle, they shoot up in 0.3 seconds. That’s why you manually raise them when you have rear passengers. If they deployed with someone leaning back in the rear, it would destroy the back of their head. The genius is that the rollover system doesn’t rely on a motor or explosive charge to push the ‘tombstones’ up. By retracting them, you’re stretching giant springs into an extremely high tension so the energy needed to deploy them in 0.3 seconds is there all the time, before you need it, same as the R129 SL, so it won’t fail to deploy even if the car has already had a bad bang before it flips. For the time, it was the best 4 seat convertible on the road for scuttle shake. They put lead weights around the windscreen, diagonal cross braces and anti roll bars under it, and shock dampeners in the trunk, engine bay and one in the top of the windscreen. The three layer roof was over an inch thick with all the insulation and unlike the SL, it had a glass rear window. I’ve owned half a dozen Mercedes and that’s my favourite and gets more admiring glances than my new E class coupe. Couldn’t agree with you more about the stereo. Dreadful. Europe had some better Blaupunkt options but the non-standard sized 4.7inch paper cone speakers sounded crap 30 years ago and unlistenable now.
One of the best-built cars Mercedes-Benz ever made. One of the last cars that the engineers designed, not the accountants. These will run forever with proper maintenance. You bought one of these for the quality and the solid driving experience. If you wanted flash and gadgets, Cadillac was down the road. Mercedes-Benz lost its way when it started chasing after that market. This car is for eating up miles on the Autobahn.
The blue leather looks fantastic and blue over silver exterior is classy. The W124 is such a simple stately design. The convertibles are pretty rare. The monowiper is trippy to see when it's raining and the headlight wipers are cool.
The interior color is just awsome.
I like it. Before I bought my W140 you see in my videos I thought about a W124 convertible for a while.
We had a 1995 E320 cabriolet. Absolutely wonderful car and built like a bank vault. It was red with chrome wheels. A van turned in front of us at a light and we hit it broadside. The car did exactly what it was supposed to do and we walked out without a scratch. I did cry to see my car damaged.
I own a white one with black interior and black top. Excellent car.
The Winter tire button is actually a special drive mode when driving in hefty winter with (in german) "Schneeketten"
Which are actual metal chains being put on your tires. Seems to be a euro thing tho
I think it only means "snow mode" here. But yeah, cool facto!
Those aren’t headrests. Those are basically the roll bar, you can manually raise them or they will pop up in the event of an impending roll over.
I love the fact that you have a individual BFB Test time stamp, good video Zack keep up all the good videos🤝👌
The Headrests double as rollover protection, they pop up if you are in danger of a rollover. No other car had these, why didn’t you mention it?
Oh darn, headlight windshield wipers weren’t turned on. I was looking forward to it. Oh well, great video as always Mr Zack, love your channel
Please do more German vehicles! Thank you!
I have to strenously disagree with your assesment of the diving/ride dynamics of these W124s. They are not soft boulevard cruisers. They're autobahn burners. You see, back in the day, it was common for well-handling European cars to have body-roll. It was purposely designed-into the chassis tuning. They rolled, but they were unflappable. Planted no matter what you through at them. Afterall, they were designed to take sweeping curves at 110-140 mph. (Today, people associate good handling with flatness, and that's not necessarily true). That was the miracle of these cars...soft and smooth up ultra planted and surefooted. And the engines were powerful but lazy. To get the full power, you had press the accelerator very hard and deep, and hold it there, then it would kick-down launch like a horse with a bee sting. Also, they started from stop in second gear--also a design feature that caused people to think they're slow.
I wanna see you review 2012-14 Volkwagen Passat TDI SEL. Hope it comes soon😀
Factory Radios again are always preferable to aftermarket, I'm gonna go so far to say that I would not finish the deal if the car doesn't have one, I would consider it to be butchered and not a complete vehicle.
I agree for the most part but if the aftermarket unit looks clean and has an oem look i might consider it.
That head unit used to have a Mercedes-Benz number.
Mirror Button switch to right sight for easy and fast control for sight lane parking looking and not scratching your rims 🫣😉
I hired one of these to impress a girl I wanted to go out with. I was only 17 and did not have a licence so my dad had to drive it. We drove it to the girls wedding. I think I wasted my money 🤑
So neat
Cue serenade no. 13. You’ll know what I mean once you look it up
You should trade mark the words super excited Zach lol
Oh for God’s sake. Do some research. The rest “headrests” are the most advanced rollover protection on the road at the time. If the sensors detect two wheels leaving the road and the car at an angle, they shoot up in 0.3 seconds. That’s why you manually raise them when you have rear passengers. If they deployed with someone leaning back in the rear, it would destroy the back of their head.
The genius is that the rollover system doesn’t rely on a motor or explosive charge to push the ‘tombstones’ up. By retracting them, you’re stretching giant springs into an extremely high tension so the energy needed to deploy them in 0.3 seconds is there all the time, before you need it, same as the R129 SL, so it won’t fail to deploy even if the car has already had a bad bang before it flips.
For the time, it was the best 4 seat convertible on the road for scuttle shake. They put lead weights around the windscreen, diagonal cross braces and anti roll bars under it, and shock dampeners in the trunk, engine bay and one in the top of the windscreen. The three layer roof was over an inch thick with all the insulation and unlike the SL, it had a glass rear window.
I’ve owned half a dozen Mercedes and that’s my favourite and gets more admiring glances than my new E class coupe.
Couldn’t agree with you more about the stereo. Dreadful. Europe had some better Blaupunkt options but the non-standard sized 4.7inch paper cone speakers sounded crap 30 years ago and unlistenable now.
Wrong thumbnail bro
You was supposed to write A124
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It looks weird with the roof off, but great car otherwise. IMO, I'd rather have the coupe or even better, the sedan.
Wagon for me. I've given thought to importing a Euro-spec manual turbodiesel wagon.
To meet thus car seems so ugly ㅠ.ㅠ I feel like BMW aged much better