- Buckle your seatbelt for a wild ride as the GREAT CARS series takes you through the evolution of the world’s most coveted sports cars and luxury vehicles. This volume explores the history of the brand that is virtually synonymous with quality and style, Mercedes Benz. Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: INSTRUCTIONAL Rating: NR Age: 826663104011 UPC: 826663104011 Manufact
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A Thrilling, In-Depth Look At This Legendary Automaker
Carl Benz, tinkering in his Mannheim, Germany, workshop, gave the world its first automobile powered by an internal combustion engine. Over 100 years later, the company bearing his name is still one of the world’s most innovative automakers. From that first single-cylinder motor-wagon, to elegant town cars for wealthy industrialists in the 1920s and futuristic Grand Prix racers in the 1930s, Mercedes carve… More >>
#1 by JAG 2.0 on March 20, 2010 - 1:53 am
This video began fairly well, explaining the origins of Daimler-Benz as an automotive company in a well presented fashion. The story of the company’s founders and namesakes were well presented.
Then, the video began to chronicle the development of M-B racing and high performance cars exclusively. There was little about passenger cars after the early years and I felt the video should have spent far more time on M-B’s main area of auto design and manufacture. As significant as the “arrows” and “gull wings” were, other M-B autos were just as important to automotive history.
I was disappointed by this DVD for the above reason. If one is interested in M-B sports cars exclusively, the History Channel “Automobiles” series episode (available in DVD format here on Amazon) on Mercedes-Benz was certainly better in my opinion and I would recommend that DVD instead of this one.
Rating: 2 / 5