I use an 1985 380SL as daily driver here in Germany in summer. It’s still a fantastic car even after 36years

I own a 1985 380SL and I love it, I drive it only on weekends.

My favorite car since the age of 12yrs old, just fell in love with it

5:20 Everyone pay attention: This is the perfect form and execution in which a stopwatch must be clicked to ensure the most accurate timing of the 500 ft Autobahn on-ramp test! Bending the knees is crucial!!!! LOL!

Those Mercedes from back in the day were indistructable!

Thís is how DALLAS started in 1977 : Bobby Ewing drove Pamela Barnes-Ewing into South Fork with thís car to tell his family they got married.

My grandpa had two of em.. Reminds me of my childhood.

these things always sounded like tanks coming down the road. love it

You keep on rockin' Jon Davis, I love your work with Korn.

"Remarkably well laid out for easy routing maintanance". Good luck servicing the oil filter without making a mess, and the spark plugs and wires are a full weekend project.

Bobby Ewing would be happy

Great to see 99 feet stopping distances, surely a record low stopping distance for an 80s car. Well done! On gravel, from Australian and New Zealand experience, the stopping distances could go up hugely. The 380 SL additionally varied so much performance and steering wise, with a large variance due to the Bosch injection and ZF steering box set up. The same engine in low compression 155 hp Australian engine form was the US engine but on 97 octane leaded fuel trim without catalyst. It gave the much heavier 380SL and 380SEL a 16.7 second 1/4 mile time, not the lack luster 18.5 like the lighter SL. Like the 450 SL, some 3.8 liter engines were a bitter performance disapointment. The European alloy block 3.8, 4.2 and 5.0 or 5.6, they were always standout engines. All low compression 2.8 liters in this body style were also downright slow.

Very educational. A 3.8 liter V8 with 155 HP carrying almost 3500 lbs No airbags, no tilt wheel and no legroom. 0-60 in about 10 seconds, which is about what a Toyota Prius does. $42k back then is about $100k today, about what a current SL sells for.

The 380SL (as well as the 560SL) is not a disposable car. It's for a lifetime.

It's sad how Mercedes have gone from making supremely elegant vehicles such as this to the "murdered out" pimp-mobiles they make nowadays.

"Bright red ego trip" Love it!

Ah the early 1980s... The only time you could buy a the equivalent of a $100k luxury, v8, two seater that that was slower than most modern four banger econo boxes.

Nice! You guys should upload more retro mercedes!

Only John can make "A huge non adjustable steering wheel" sound like a pricy and classy option. "You just dont get why ppl buy a Mercedes"? Really?! Im sure that guy was a real piece of work.

Oh............John looks SOOOOOOOOOOOO cool in this big Benz!!!!!!!

Now, that's a car for a Detroit detective to drive while catching a Beverly Hills art dealer/drug dealer that killed his childhood friend. Hilarity ensued.

I love those rims.

Do you have a video of the 560SEC? It was my favorite Merc from that time period.

John Davis sounds particularly classy in this video.

155 bhp is very low but that's only the case for the US-Version. In other markets, the 380 SL had about 215 bhp - which is almost as much as the 450 SL would have.

Watching today and ROFL at the timing methods of yesteryear at 5:21

Love Mercedes❤

Mercedes always going to be Mercedes especially the old ones!!!!!

Wow, still a nice looking Feltzer.

Omg look at that rubber bumper

Wonder what they would think now of mine, a rustbucket with 236K miles on it...still in pretty good shape, overall, and still fun to drive, but...

I have a 96 love it

I wanted comments from 1983 !

“Bright red ego trip!” Haha bring back the 80s

This is a REAL Mercedes. What they call a mercedes today is a hunk of shitty plastics controlled by a glitchy, expensive to fix computer.

I know there are faster, smoother, more luxurious cars out there but there is something about a Mercedes that just seems... Better

I love to compare these older cars with the new , today a sport car 0-60 in over 9 sec !!!

I LIKED IT ITS STYLE

A friend of mine bough his wife a 2018 Mercedes CLS Coupe last year; When you are driving, even in the quiet of the Dutch countryside, the engine is so quite, no it's SILENT not just quiet, I had to keep stopping myself from telling her that, "Your engine died"! Even when the hood was open I couldn't really tell if it was running or not. What an superbly well engineered automobile, no wonder they can ask so $ much for them! My new BMW wants to go and hide in shame whenever she comes to visit us in that car!

Those 40 thousands bucks invested in Apple une 83 , would give you 70 millions $ in 2023😅

motorweek if you have a review of a hyundai tiburon I would love if you posted it, thanks

Dallas, Hart to Hart etc.

"one passenger wasn't sure the wheels were on the ground" I'm sure...

A retro review of the ford fesitva,Aspire and toyota RAV4

i'll take mine as an euro spec 5sp manual!

Das ist sehr interessant.

Devin's car!

The Bobby Ewing Edition

Such nice cars

very reliable

What a classy guy... bringing flowers home to his woman.

i saw this cars when i was 13 guau whata car !!..

triple the price in 11 years? ouch... the recession and dollar devaluation double whammy of the 1970s

In 1983 I'd much rather go modest, in a way, with my 40k and spend it on a 82 Vette for around 16k (used in '83), a new Oldsmobile 98 Regency for around 12k, and a new Pontiac Grand Prix for around 9.5k. After all that I still have a spare 2.5k while having enough cars to take care of all the family needs. Not bad, right?

I LIKED IT

Do you have any Mercedes W123 videos in your archives?

I got 76 450se and the brakes lock up very easily.

Did you guys ever test a first-generation SLK? I'd love to see how my car handled your tests.

who holds on to a car right as it launches for a quarter mile time?

can you add a video of a 2001 Buick Lesabre limited

I want one.

Beverly hills 👮!!!!!!

Beverly Hills shopping cart.

Could you guys do a retro review of a 1988 Pontiac bonneville sse.

By 1983, that car was starting to get a little anachronistic.

I’m the 700 👍🏼

I really cringed when he slammed that soft top down in the back...

I'm sure it's a very well-built car that continually provides affirmation to its well-heeled owner, but wow! The '83 LeBaron Convertible had TONS of leg room, fully-adjustable power seats, a tilt wheel, a power top and, with its 2.2 liter turbo, was quicker. I know, I know: European quality, blah, blah, blah. American-made crap, blah, blah, blah. But really, $40K is luxury-car coin even today, yet 35 years ago this barge lacked "luxury" equipment that was even in 1983 considered "must-have."

Do a Mercedes Benz 300E retro

Beverley hills cop 1

40k USD? How much was a Cheeseburger that time? 😎

wow 155bhp !

Calling it the 380sl is misleading. People will think it has 380ccs.

4k in 82 for this car and no power top. wtf

@ 3:42 Hazards multiply when the those educated in public schools attempt to use words they do not know. How can a ride be "docile?" A horse can be "easily taught or trained" but certainly not a 380 SL. It just goes where you drive it.

Sue Ellen Ewing it was I belive, drove one of these with snooty arrogance

PUT IT IN A FIELD WITH HORSES!!!

The ride is "dosle"???? What on earth is that?

Poor horses in this video are dead.

I've been in one of those, they have poor legroom. I have an '82 S-Class. They're hitting the wall now, lock sets are dying with no factory replacements for example. Same huge steering wheel and non-adjustable column, shocking. My diesel has 120hp and way more torque than that sucker... and only weighs 3475. With the wheels off that thing I could probably whip it in the canyons

0-57 in 9.8 seconds, 1/4 mile in 18.5. That's "quite respectable by today's standards". No he didn't....

I always thought these were ugly and they always look dirty, even when they were new.

I rather have the horses for transportation

Good God how American regulations ruined perfect European design. It looks so awful.