Comments by "John Luetjen" (@jehl1963) on "1968 Mercedes-Benz 280SE Cabriolet - Driving Top Tier Classic German Luxury (POV Binaural Audio)" video.

  1. At 12:35 you pointed out that "They (MB) had figured it out." Yes they had! They were arguably the most technically advanced car manufacturer of the 50's, 60's and 70's. Then, the accountants took over! MB has never been the same.
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  2. @verdict1163  True. Being an avowed Porsche fanboy, I was tempted to bring up MB's smaller cross town neighbor. I had the pleasure of visiting both company museums in the '80's. While Porsche's museum (at the time) was a big room packed with awesome race cars and prototypes, Mercedes was a vast building filled with race cars, trend setting cars and trucks (including the FIRST automobile!), airplane and U-Boot engines. The bredth and depth of the company's technical achievements was mind-boggling, not to mention the obvious cross-pollination which went on. Porsche, Lancia and Citreon are all innovative companies -- no doubt! But 2/3 of them essentially disappeared since that time. You could put all three of them together, and they might start to approach the scale of MB's innovation (Largely thanks to a former MB employee by the name of Porsche).
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