Look at the trunk paint...

these cars are so cheap anyways, most people probably wouldn't bother. Not saying I would not appreciate a basic clean etc, but not everyone are living on a healthy budget to just get stuff like that done for a one-time occasion.

@@Real_MisterSir I actually clean and polish my own car...it costs nothing and I get a workout at the same time.

@A real bisexual petrol-head If my car was going to be seen by millions of people and reviewed by Doug, I'd spend all the time that's required to make it look the best it could possibly be...just sayin'.

@@mikevale3620 Good on you! I do (did) the same with my motorcycle. But I can understand that not everyone has the time or dedication to it. Just means that clean examples are so much more appreciated :)

Hahahah I know.. the black paint needs it

Is this what you get for $299 at Mako? This paint looks awful!

FFS Did the use house paint on the poor Merc?

It looks that someone used a brush to paint that car. My 9 yo daughter could make better job

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AND THIS HAD NOT SHOWED ANY OF THOSE OPTIONS... AND THEN SAID CHEAP CAR SAME LEVEL AS W140... COMPLETELY CRAZY...

this was available on bmw e39 5 series in the 90ies too so I imagine 7 series had it. Could be that mb invented it tho

My 2001 W210 has this feature where I can controlled the windows opening when parked using the remote. I believe it is also a standard features on conti cars now as I have 2014 VW Polo which also has same feature using the remote.

Of course a woman would own them 🙄 must be nice having money

​@@elmagnifico1 the rich lady in my neighborhood drove one ,the next time I saw her a young man was driving her in a rolls 😂

Talha Mirza 😆

My grill brush after having a massive barbecue grilling steaks on it

Also it was painted with a paint roller before

Jesus doug did you get this one at a junkyard?

1995 nobody's phone was fitting in anything smaller than a backpack

Agreed. He can adjust all scores to the state of the art of the time.

He should have separate ratings for the time it was made, and the time of the video's making. He should also rate them depending on what the car IS. Such as rating an economy hatchback as "slow" isn't fair, because it isn't meant to be fast. He should compare it to other economy hatchbacks to see which one is the fastest/most comfortable etc etc. He should have a personal rating and a "class" rating for each car. Rating a 120 hp economy hatchback as "slow" isn't fair because it isn't made to be a race car. Same thing with an S-class. If the quality is on par with an economy car it shouldn't get the same quality score as the economy car, because it's advertised as a "luxury car".

@@nicklasveva that's the point. What is the point of rating and giving any kind of score to so different cars? Dunno. Maybe we should just ignore Doug Score and consider it as just some unnecesary quirk/feature.

I don’t really see it as an issue because after giving it the Doug score he shows where it ranks next to similar cars from similar eras so you can gauge how good it was for what kind of car from whichever time period

So i think

Nobody passes Doug's Car Class.

I honestly don’t get his rating but it’s his opinion

All the cars he reviews he grades them according to modern standards.so it isn't as good as it was back in the 1990s

It still kicks all asses.

Yeah. He will give a two seater car a low rating for practicality, meanwhile a two seater does exactly what is intended, so it should be rated high for practicality. I like Doug's reviews, but when he starts with the doug score, I pause and move to the next one

More like sandblasted down to bare metal and repainted again..

Paint swirls are underrated.

I noticed that, the car's had a Stevie Wonder respray

@@mattridgley9095 That trunk is also 90% body filler.

Nope, "the best example of the best S-Class ever"!

i can see how having it in the trunk could be a good idea but i've yet to hear it from a actual firefighter

Also it is accessible from the rear seats by lifting the bench so it’s easy to access

I also never got into a police trap, they always wave me through when I am in the W140 :-)

Ну, Кирюха, загнул. "Чёфферед" - сколько ж я этого слова не слышал...

I love Russia and fast W140s.

@@Kerogas_ читай больше книжек английских)

@@websnail This is true indeed, I was never even once stopped by police whenever I drive mine they just wave me through. I've also noticed that people get a little bit uneasy/scared whenever I arrive with this car and especially when I get out of it. LOL

Probably so! Certainly one of the best. Now they mostly look like every other Amero-Euro-Asian car.

f308gtb1977 to be fair to Mercedes, that’s because other manufacturers - particularly the Asian companies - have imitated MB’s designs pretty successfully for the past decade or so. It’s not MB’s fault.

VideoAmericanStyle , you’re not wrong.

You’d say that to your DAUGHTER!!!???

A real bisexual petrol-head , uh... no.

That's exactly how it looks

It could be truth

Or a black permanent marker! Omg what crap job

🤣

I grew up with this car. My parents bought an S500 in 1994, and I felt like the coolest kid getting dropped off in school haha. It was incredibly massive, insanely quiet, and my dad still has it. He even built cupholders for it by milling aluminum retractable cupholders for that tiny center storage box where the cell-phone controls used to be in. I told him he could totally sell that on etsy or whatever but for whatever reason, he won't (he said it costed him lots of time to mill, and with materials cost; it would cost too much to sell). Anyways, the paint quality never held up well with the car. He always had it garage-kept; yet the paint just deteriorated after 20 years. I recall my buddy's dad also has one, and the paint on these were just utter crap. And the windows, them being dual-pane, are insanely expensive too. The outer layer on the passenger-side rear window just decided to shatter one day. Sigh..

Whoa! I forgot all about those!

I remember that in the Netherlands. Thx for the memory. But driving is driving would be a good idea still!

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Jepp, my Mum is still using hers. Not McD, but it still is as practical as ever.

Honestly, I still think cup holders in cars are a weird idea.

Assassin Force this was the most Doug thing ever 😅

That is insanely true.

this is another car you will never buy, but be interested in, and quickly check out on carsales.

@@bradford_shaun_murray Here in germany you can get these for 1000 Euro in bad condition xD

@@boonamai8926 yeah exactly, i had the coupe two years ago. Coupes are slightly more expensive and i bought mine for about 5k EUR and it was running fine as a daily. However by running i mean just engine and gearbox - all of those quirks and features worked like on schedule which will break this week. Repairs of those features were a lot more expensive than for instance in BMW E39, took a lot of time and nobody wanted to work on it, because everything was made slightly different than in other cars. Even the Mercedes dealerships didn't wanted to deal with some of the issues. Only good thing about it is that parts are still produced by Mercedes. They are expensive but at least if you can't find used you can just order it. After some time i've sold it and i bought brand new Mustang GT. After two years running cost (including monthly payment for Mustang, taxis and rental cars during Mercedes period) of both cars is pretty much similar, and while Mustang is slightly more expensive to run... it actually runs without spending weeks in service. And yes, i could keep Mercedes under the blanket and buy some Skoda for everyday use, but i wanted to drive a fun car, not to own it.

experts. experts everywhere. 2 weeks with w140 dont make you expert. i will tell you secret. after 8 years with w140 i can say that 90% malfuncions can be fixed by spending few h on mb forum then finding cleaning and viola its working again. urban legenda from people who copy legends from other people...

The w126 was best

W140 is a pain to repair and service.

I love my w126, but almost everything is mechanical. Stuff has a habit of breaking. I want a w126 with some w140 elements

sandpaper

I've painted several cars with paint rollers to more success than this

Palm.

Seriously!

Old cars=gold cars

Old but gold

S70 AMG ... pagani v12

im glad im not the only one😂 too many supercars on social media already but not these gems

I just picked up a ‘92 500SL. Loving it

They sure loved those i-spy mirrors

I'm still looking for one myself

SlitWristMisfit I own one. It has routine oil changes and that’s it. Mechanically it’s completely sound for a ‘98. One owner. Always wintered. My e46 cost more in my first year than my Benz. And it’s a lot less comfortable.

@@Got_it I envy you dude! That's my all time favorite benz. Just timeless beauty.

Me too man... me too

SAME.

Lol same

6:50 Same here. This is one of the worst paint jobs I've ever seen.

House paint maybe?

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More like painted with a potted plant

Repainted with the roller by Doug

Thats exactly what I thought

In Mongolia nick name is the bull.

@@ironknight2824 oh wow

In Saudi Arabia they call it "shabah" till this day, and it means "ghost".

я искал этот комментарий! я думал, что никто не напишет!

@@MrMrmody1996 Same in Bahrain, they call it the "ghost" for whatever reason but then again, peoplrd called the 90s chevy caprice a "soap bar" lol.

W223 bad.. W222 is very good in today accounting standards.

You're delusional maybe you haven't seen an actual proper car before.

Very popular up north Nigeria during the ibb era

🤣🤣🤣

Its bondo bro things been crashed hard lmao

that's very funny! ha ha ha ha

@@pinytenis420 Iool I agree look at 7:38 that door section looks terrible and the trunk at 5:53 looks like it's been crooked, buffed out and painted by the intern kid

You spelled "Earl Scheib" wrong.

seems like they painted it with a hand brush

Mexican body shops left the chat

They use paint roller

Saw that too. Looks like spray tin work.

at the time, the paint quality of mercedes wasn't the best

Mercedes: how many Mcoys do you need? Chuck Norris: yes

Mercedes factory: "We like to order 200 electric motors." Electric motor producer: "Ah, you mean per day, right?" Mercedes factory: "No. Per car..."

Compared to new S Classes... few. But my 1996 has over 30 motors in the I interior alone! Power everything!

American things man they always hungry

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Obvious? When I first saw it I thought it was the mitochondria button

Evening owning them in 2023 feels extremely nice…yea those first owners probably drove the longer route back home just cuz they love how it feels

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Why not fold the whole back row squish the children in between them.

😩🤣

@Yule Calma but children are so squishy.

Indeed. I feel like if KIA or one of the smaller brands want to make something good, just get all the quirks and features from this car.

@@omarbabakarkhail no, I have driven modern lexus’s, modern toyota’s, modern honda’s, 2010’s vw’s, 2000’s lexus’s, 2000’s mercedes benz’s, 2000’s bmw’s and I am convinced that the Japanese car manufacturers will never have the same feel as the european car manufacturers, they will always feel like different cars, they just make them differently, it’s just up to what you prefer

@@haggard1378 I know. We have a Model S and used to drive a Leaf 2016 along with an X3 2016. Sure all these cars differ in price, but the leap from an Asian brand to the Europeans or even Tesla is huge. Yet I do wonder if the Asians incorporate some of these quirks and features, the lack of insulation and “quality” might be negated to an extent. We are going to test drive the Ioniq5 soon, so if that one is good, we might trade our S for it.

These days would be too much money to make this car that's why nowadays they simplified things. But new s classes are pretty on par with this benz it took 20 years though to go back to this awesomeness lol This was pretty spaceship for its time though. This car is the same to when volvo put a turbo in their wagons lol sorta revolutionary thing. Soon in our lifetime we will see some.crazyness coming our way with the electric cars

@@haggard1378 of course they feel like different cars, why would they feel the same?

American models had the same heated windshield washer setup.

Gold-standard Rustoleum. I’m Sure the owner bought the premium cans of paint!

😂Lol

I lol'd

Seems like he missed a few things.

If Doug didn’t say it, I don’t believe it

He also forgot to talk about the wipers.

You have right bro

Very interesting, thank you

"Off cous' a buzinezman needs se fone!"

It was legal to do basically anything in the car while driving back then.

In Europe, cupholders weren't a thing. We don't have drive throughs and certainly noon would drink a coffee in the car from the cafe. Starbucks wasn't even a thing back then.

Martin Jones I know ~why~ its just funny with our modern context of literally outlawing phone calls and texting but not caring about eating and drinking.

That had a hands free option, have one in the 95 SL320 I've got

Doug Score favors modern cars. There isnt a seperate scale for classic cars.

This was until Lexus launched the LS400...

Marcel Patel The Lexus LS400 came out in 1989, this generation S class came out in 1991...

This is a really good read about the W140. As a W140 owner it is highly recommended! auto-didakt.com/cars_blog_leser/mercedes-benz_w140_design_review_history_bruno_sacco.html Really wish Doug had reviewed an example that was in better cosmetic condition (that paint looks terrible, cracked wood trim) but seems like all the mechanical things are in order except the rear powered headrests. I have a final year (1999) W140 and my headrests drop but do not have automatic raising - guess it's one of the things Mercedes did away with to control costs later in the model run.

Marcel Patel sorry this car wouldn’t even wipe its ass with a Lexus. The ls400 is respected in its own right but comes nowhere near the w140’s quality and refinement and luxury amenities.

I was looking for this comment

Ah, a fellow effspot subscriber

Cameron Wood same

that's a good one lol

I knew it sounded good with exhaust before effspot video! 😁

HAHA! Whats up eff. Good to see you

The S600 would have been a wiser choice for the W140

nice to see you eff :)

Just finished watching your video. rip sony camcorder

More like a stock 500$ exhaust probably 😅.. Just speculating

They still are overengineered. If you discard the nostalgia and look at it objectively, it still is unreliable like any other modern s class

@@mverick5444 the w140 is very reliable, i daily one

The wheel itself is probably wrecked

Looks comfy as hell

better than damaging the steering wheel itself, sun exposure ruin steering wheels and dashboards on many cars

@@erikh1041 this isn't there to preserve the steering wheel, the leather is probably cracked and worn shiny from years of sweat and greasy hands. the paint looks so atrocious, whoever accepts this isn't the kind of person to protect a 30 year old steering wheel.

All you guys sound stupid right now. These types of covers were on every car and truck in the 90s. Very common. Looked good back then.

never seen so many swirls in my life

Looks like it was never cleaned properly, such a shame :(

They should have his daughter pick out a color and take it to his Maaco.

Not after his last video

It's truly terrible. He should've picked one in better condition for this review. The swirl marks make it look even worse.

Looks good to me

@@tradinwarstoriez5641 so, which polish brand was that?

LOL. I had a friend who tried that with red nail polish. When she got home, there was a charge on her credit card; she'd totaled the car with dings and bits.

and covered the steering wheel in a sporty glove- somebody has tried a bit too hard

I wish my car had a sugar donut button!

@@JDsHouseofHobbies Maybe a former police car, oh, excuse me, BLM requires me to refer to them as 'peace cars' now, would be the ticket.

Perry Champ bro just really had to make it political

@@ethanl440 I was, and on purpose, and in a snarky way. (Didn't you catch 'the ticket' part?) The sooner BLM and their 'peaceful protests' go away, the better. I have all colors of friends, 'it's the content of their character'. Stop watching CNN.

@@Colorado_Native who gives a shit about blm here anyways. It has its purpose, but the only one I see bringing it into light here is you mate. If you wanna see it go away, then first step is to stop giving it attention.

it‘s still a 500SEL. the name changing to S500L came later

There wasn't a transition, a "SEL" Class never existed, the S-Class name has been around since 1972.

The SEL was only to designate the so seek laser name, fuels injection and long wheel base. All the big premium car from Mercedes since the 70’s were all considered S classes.

Sonder (special) Einspritz (fuel injection instead of carb) Long wheel base

kaban🔥

600й Мерин 💪💪

I'm pretty sure 90s yakuza also had this car, because foreign brands in japan were seen as classy and powerful

For example, the most famous oligarch was Boris Beresowsky. He was almost murdered in armored W140. Also, the most famous russian gangster (the head of Orekhovskaya gang) drove this one in a coupe version. He was killed in that Mercedes.

Hello from Switzerland! I have to say the following, I have some minty low mile fetish 140s in my collection and the cars still look massive next to a new W222. You can look down very well on the pleabian minions when you ride along in the 140. The 140 conveys a certain respectful dictator / plutocrat aura similar to the W100 600, which (unfortunately) no longer embodies the current luxury class vehicles. This is probably why the 140 was one of the favorite vehicles of people like Muammar al-Gadaffi, Putin, the Yakuza and Co. even when there were successor series to choose from. The space, security [extremly rugged in a serious crash, a kind of unique "chopped" ladder frame like a truck, plus (!) a unibody is a construction they have not done on any other mercedes except the W240 maybach which build on the 140 chassis, makes this car a "tigertank" that will crush the other car in a serious accident, newer big cars are build weaker for socialist partner protection in a crash to help the smaller car, so you can say 140/240 was the pinnacle of crash saftey in some way, to only protect the occupants of the 140/240 and crush the enemy car with no mercy] a long-distance suitability and comfort of the 140s are in no way inferior to those of the new luxury vehicles, unlike, for example, the very old-school 126 model. Good examples of the 140 series are expensive, some are above comparable 126s, which was not the case a few years ago here in Europe (minty 140 500/600 under 60kmiles, go for about 50k/CHF, and I guess will be encreasing further in future) I cannot understand the fear of some "control units", the electronics in the 140 are rock solid and really not rocket science, similar to the W124 E500 E420 E320 or all R129 up to ´98, sometimes even redundant and can still be repaired in the distant future, in contrast to today's cheap and over-complex electronics. In terms of mechanical durability and engine design, the M104, M119 and M120 engines are unsurpassed as far as the petrol engines from Daimler are concerned, provided they are properly cared for, that is the golden era of Daimler, something better was not built before and after. I think some are only now beginning to understand what epochal masterpieces have been created. Elsewhere in the world it was already considered a masterpiece that competed with Rolls Royce and Bentley and even degraded them, similar to the W100. It is not for nothing that the W240 Maybach builds on the chassis of the 140 series. An E32 / E38 or Audi V8 / A8, Lexus LS on the other hand, looks like a poorly manufactured mid-range car, the same with the unworthy supposed successor, the W220, which initiated the qualitative degeneration of Mercedes under J. Schrempp. The W220 actually was not the true successor of the 140, even if some may think so, actually the W240 Maybach was the successor/reincarnation of the W140. The development costs of the 140 were the highest in mercedes history with the engineers running the show and going truly megalomaniac, it was the last engineers car from mercedes and not a car, where accountants and shareholders made the development decisions. The ride, build quality and "aura" is unlike any other mercedes before and after, I have to say, these cars do have a soul. I might add that the 140 offered two good cupholders in the front middle armrest but that was an extra option. I find it shameful that you reviewed the best car ever made with this, beat down, roll painted POS. I always was waiting for you to make a Video of the 140 since I remembered you mentioned it was your favourite Mercedes Big Body in an article on autotrader you wrote some years ago. And by no means are the 500 and 600 140s slow, the M120 V12 was put in the Pagani Zonda, the M119 V8 as bi-turbo with KKK-superchargers was put in the Sauber C9 in 1989, 720ps. I guess the car you are reviewing has beyond 500k miles and a shitty maintance history with 7 diffrent owners where the last 5 turned the clock, so it will have lost some horsepowers and have a worn out suspension and steering feeling. I sometimes cruise during the night time on the German Autobahn with 250km/h, the suspension and parameter steering feel (you also forgot to mention parameter steering) is very firm and tight on well maintained 140s, they go like on rails, like a freight train. I own almost all S-Class models five of which are 140 chassis, 240 Maybach including the newest 222 (POS). I know how the 140 compares, it is out of this world, I even dare to say that the build quality on the 140 is even higher than the 240 Maybach. It was and most likley will forever be the best car humanity produced, period.

tbh that‘s not saying much considering the junk bmw produces

@@iamwritingrightnow8217 no

Zereniti77 *really* !!?!

Was he fired?

alphatrion100 I don’t think so!? 😂😂

HELLO!!! I want to spend time with celebrities. Just kidding. GAGAGAGAGA! I only want to spend time with my two girlfriends and record videos for my channel with the 3 of us. OH YEAH. Don't hate me for living the best life, dear doug

Mercedes had S shaped wipers on the W108/109’s stacked headlights back in 1969 or 70. My German uncle had one.

One of the first cars doesn’t really mean it was first ones to do it.

A headlight cleaning system has been required equipment in Sweden since 1972.

Fucking rich kid

Really cool

87500 in 99 no finance included most peoples house cost at the time

And the rear passenger mirrors got lights 😁 I know because I have one of those, I love this car. So much stuff inside... And makes you feel safe, because not many cars on the road are over 2 tons. It is just great, your baby can sleep even if you run all the potholes. 👌🏻

You’re the type of person to say this to everyone

😂😂😂

😂😂😂👍

I’ve loved how those comments have been under his videos forever, and they usually reflect on the time they were written.

And still you look the videos

Yeah, I thought he seemed familiar!

He's a very industrious kind of a dude

Nahh

Doug Demuro created cars and bids.

Nah, it's the writer on autotrader.com/oversteer

Also known as the number one car if you were either an oligarch, war dog, war profiteer, war crime boss or mafia boss in ex-Yugoslavian countries.

But it has a cheap $30 steering wheel cover from Autozone? Why wouldn’t you go to an automotive upholsterer and get the steering wheel properly retrimmed?

Paul Sz because automotive upholstry work is a lost art. Only a few schools (including mine, Pennsylvania college of technology) offer automotive restoration degrees.

@@paulsz6194 it's most likely damaged

did you see all those secret stash spots

Yes exactly!

The good ole days

Back then most cars were built like tanks, now everything is tin foil

Ruben Braekman my 96 cummins ram 3500 has 384k, the body was made of (shit) sheeeeetmetal, but seems to never have been rust prevented. But the engine and frame still are going strong. The cummins is indestructable.

There was a line like that in Sin City, something about a particular Mercedes being from the days when that meant something.

Simp

So he's relevant for a very short amount of time, then gets quickly outdated and cheap? I don't think so :/

NOT S CLASS BUT THE MAYBACH

He depreciates like a stone and has rust before hes 10 years old?

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