Comments by "Lynott Parris" (@DenUitvreter) on "American Reacts to the Mercedes 300 SL Gullwing - Germany's First Supercar" video.

  1. Europe and especially Germany was still only beginning to recover from the war economically. Not a great market for expensive cars.
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  2. There is a lot of environmental protection laws in between. Lamborghini got 90 hp a litre a little over a decade later and Deusenberg had almost 60 hp per litre 25 years before. Jaguar was pushing the 70 hp per litre in that era too with the XK. I think the more impressive thing was that it was reliable and very driveable, it wasn't a raw race car but a very usable gt when it wasn't too hot a day. As a whole Mercedes was proven more than right in that a fuel injected 3 litre straight six 1500kg car is still a very desirable configuration for 21st century car.
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