last car standing
 

Google discovery channels "last car standing". I entered my 82 300sd last year, got a call back but thankfully declined. $10 000 awarded if you make it through the episode. $50 000 if you opt to risk it all for the grand final. If you loose, $1500 for your car and it is destroyed.

I liked the idea when I first heard about it, do not like any of the challenges they came up with to "test" the cars. Designed to destroy the cars. No possibility of making it through undamaged. Even if you win, your car is a total write off. Body - shot. Suspension shot.

I would have preferred if the cars had to compete against themselves. How many features still work? How many HP has it lost? Fine tooth comb inspection of condition? Nope, just wreck the cars.

How do you think your car would do? Or any Benz, exception being a unimog

ThTs nothing. At this very moment im passenger in my e300d with my 16 year old daughter driving on her learner's permit. Hell with losing the suspension I might not make it home. Pray for me. We're on 66 going on the beltway next. God help me.

OMG!
 

:eek: God be with you!!

What were the challenges?

Honestly I would love to see a w123 on there and see how it does. I would personally be really sadden if it was a nice car but a rust bucket I wouldn't care. I would enter mine, because I would love a chance to have a fully restored w123....but at last I couldn't lose this car..

Its great to hear of a decent father taking the time to teach his daughter to drive. Far too often its some DB boy friend that does the teaching.
Just remember God will look after those who look after their own !!

I took my wifes niece out in my 190d when she was learning. She had a lot of trouble with "brake pedal" and "gas pedal". Then I found out she had never been in the drivers seat of anything, including a lawn mower, before our trip. So that was interesting. Of course there isnt any traffic here, so it was only scary, not dangerous.

Good luck, and try not to show fear...

I'm going to look up this show now. Sounds interesting.

I could see and old MB winning this...

planned obselescence...whats that?
 

I seem to recall a similar BBC show where they took an older TD estate wagon and beat the living tar out of it. They did the works, kicked the frame, smashed the windows, drove over cobblestones, ran it underwater, and finally loaded it with TNT and blew it up. And you know what? It still started up. No kidding.

There was a story going around, some time back, that the insurgents in Iraq were instructed not to use old Mercedes to hide their car bombs in anymore, as every time they used one basically there was a big bang and nothing else. The car would buckle outward and remain more or less intact.

They were told to use other less durable cars instead, ones that would actually explode into bits.

That might be urban legend. Anyone here who was in theater who can comment/verify?

wow if thats true, then thats awesome! i do remember seeing a movie or tv show where they defused a bomb that was in the back of a sagging mercedes at a consulate. and the sagging rear end was how they knew it had a bomb and i was thinking well you havent seen many 30+ year old benzs!

on another note my brother in law (also a diesel benz owner) was in IRAQ and said it is true. (he just so happened to be here while i was reading this).

I watched an episode of Last Car Standing and I think the show is more out to beat the crap out of cars than prove how good they really are. Some cars are less than half the age of mine and in worse condition. I'm sure my car could beat the pants off them but I am not willing to beat the crap out of my car for a TV show. At least not after all the work I have done to it. In its original condition over a year ago, sure but not with the thousands that I have put into it.