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Englisch Bitte! Mercedes-Benz C107 SLC Fascination Video

• Mercedes-Benz C107 Generation: 350SLC, 450SLC, 500SLC
• SLCs were the S-Class coupe based on the R107 SL
  
• Fascination Videos now dubbed in English

By Gunnar Heinrich | IMG via YouTube

PERSONALLY, I can’t stand the Mercedes-Benz “Fascination” videos.

They’re a long series of shorts which dryly recycle company archive footage and cover it all with dry narrative flakes that served up in a piece so passionless, you’d get more sauce from a DMV training video.

Originally, the series was dubbed in German. Now they’ve been re-posted in English.

Danke!

But back to why they’re crap.

Probably more irksome than watching brown cars through a brown lens is the modern synching of royalty-free “period music”. What we’re left with in artistic and entertainment terms is a true snooze fest.

That said, like an encyclopaedia, a thesaurus, or the AP, they’re there for good reason.

Where else could we watch to our heart’s content recent classic Benzes on parade, in development, in crash testing, or in their – ahem- period settings?

Type “450SLC video” into a YouTube search and the first five postings are likely to be some jackals lighting up a tired, pimped out example in a parking lot somewhere in South Dakota or Hungary.

These are grand cars! Modern classics which need tender love and care. The C107 SLC, for instance, was a rally car champ in its day as well as being a svelte 2+2 luxury coupe of the first order.

I guess if we had to make a choice between senseless hoonage and corporate chalk, we’ll take the corporate chalk for its reverence, any day.

All the better now that it’s in English.