S-Class (W222/C217/A217) [Official] Mercedes-Benz S-Class (W222)

[Keyonte]

production starts tomorrow:

Is this their world HQ?

 

[lukeswiss]

They have that star on a few of their buildings..... It spins... kinda like the old KFC bucket

 

[Dawid21]

My new S Class generation

http:///2013/06/job-1-rollt-vom-ban...e-baureihe-222-in-sindelfingen-ist-gestartet/

 

[Betty Swollocks]

I never said anything about bias Betty.

I never said you did. I wasn't sure hence my QUESTION whether you were referring to bias. Inverted commas around the word "British" doesn't make it clear whether you were referring to bias as this was published by a British magazine OR my other thought, that you were indeed questioning the validity of the statement that these cars are not British.

I was humoured by the notion that these cars are 'British'.

On what grounds are they not British? Just because the owners happen to be foreign?

In a world where multi-national, cross-border share holders are common place, the idea that a company is not inherently from a certain country just because the major shareholder happens to be based in another country is moribund, and a very simplistic and black and white view.

Chrysler is controlled by the Fiat Group. Does that suddenly make Chrysler an Italian company? Of course it doesn't.

 

[Deckhook]

I visited Autocar's site:

Top 5 Ultimate Luxury cars:

1. RR Phantom
2. RR Ghost
3. Aston Rapide
4. Bentley Mulsanne
5. W221 S-class

Actually all these cars ahead of the Merc are British despite who now control them because they are assembled in Britain by a mainly British workforce. The reality IMO is that the Merc is probably technically superior to all of them but it falls down against all of them on image and when you are spending this much on a car that plays a huge part.

 

[Kilcrohane]

1. RR Phantom
2. RR Ghost
3. Aston Rapide
4. Bentley Mulsanne
5. W221 S-class

Actually all these cars ahead of the Merc are British despite who now control them because they are assembled in Britain by a mainly British workforce. The reality IMO is that the Merc is probably technically superior to all of them but it falls down against all of them on image and when you are spending this much on a car that pays a huge part.

- if it's a matter of where it's assembled determines its nationality then the Aston Martin was Austrian for most of its life, only becoming British when the contracted number of minimum units with Magna was not reached, due to poor sales.

 

[PHYBENZ]

^^^ Those are some TIGHT shut lines.

 

[Betty Swollocks]

- if it's a matter of where it's assembled determines its nationality then the Aston Martin was Austrian for most of its life, only becoming British when the contracted number of minimum units with Magna was not reached, due to poor sales.

I think there are many factors which can determine the "nationality" of a manufacturer, and I don't think where they're made is the sole factor. If Ferrari decided to move all of their manufacturing to Poland, it wouldn't suddenly make a Ferrari a Polish car.

In that same vein, just because an Indian decides to buy JLR, it doesn't suddenly make an XJ an Indian car.

 

[Monster]

I think there are many factors which can determine the "nationality" of a manufacturer, and I don't think where they're made is the sole factor. If Ferrari decided to move all of their manufacturing to Poland, it wouldn't suddenly make a Ferrari a Polish car.

In that same vein, just because an Indian decides to buy JLR, it doesn't suddenly make an XJ an Indian car.

Please take this discussions to somewhere else.

 

[PINHEAD]

There's no headlamp washer?

 

[Monster]

There's no headlamp washer?

Apparently you don't need headlamp washer with these new LED headlights.

 

[PINHEAD]

Apparently you don't need headlamp washer with these new LED headlights.

Apparently. But if it's raining and the new LED headlights are covered with dirt?

 

[Monster]

Apparently. But if it's raining and the new LED headlights are covered with dirt?

You will have to ask the MB engineers for answers, personally I have driven cars with and without headlight washers and I never needed them at all.

 

[Keyonte]

isnt it alittle too soon to begin production it hasn't been a month yet and there are still prototypes running around in some countries

 

[snksnok]

S63 first apeerance at 2:40 here

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[Amat46]

^^Omg, it surely is S63.

 

[Merc1]

And you know Mercedes did that on purpose lol.

We must be getting close to the launch. Then the GLA and S/CL Coupe, all should be dropped in the next month or so leading up to Frankfurt.

M

 

[Mr. Mercedes]

I never said you did. I wasn't sure hence my QUESTION whether you were referring to bias. Inverted commas around the word "British" doesn't make it clear whether you were referring to bias as this was published by a British magazine OR my other thought, that you were indeed questioning the validity of the statement that these cars are not British.



On what grounds are they not British? Just because the owners happen to be foreign?

In a world where multi-national, cross-border share holders are common place, the idea that a company is not inherently from a certain country just because the major shareholder happens to be based in another country is moribund, and a very simplistic and black and white view.

Chrysler is controlled by the Fiat Group. Does that suddenly make Chrysler an Italian company? Of course it doesn't.

The brands may be British but all the fundamental engineering is German for Rolls and Bentley and American for Aston, though I'm less sure about this last point. So in my head, rightly or wrongly, they are not truly British.

 

[Mr. Mercedes]

http://paultan.org/2013/06/12/first-w222-mercedes-benz-s-class-rolls-off-production-line/

A bit sad thinking it should have been Wolfgang Bernhard standing there with Zetsche. Instead he's been shipped off to the truck division.

 

[Dawid21]

Guys,
After watching the movie I personally mixed feelings.
I do not know whether if I had lots of money I would give for a new S class as much as he wants. I am afraid that I do not. :/