Diesel MBs in the movies and TV - Page 13 - PeachParts Mercedes-Benz Forum

mumbles · #**181** 11-20-2009, 02:12 AM

I'm psyched to be contributing to this thread, as I've started to see MBs everywhere now. A guy in a beautiful 560 let me out of my street the other day.

I don't know if anyone watches, but on Arrested Development the family car is a 420SEL I believe. Definitely a 420, might have the letters wrong though. It's in a good number of episodes, like when Lucille gets into the accident, and when they're kids and Michael drops his ice cream in the back seat, but I couldn't really read the model until the episode when Buster hides in the trunk to try to escape to Mexico to avoid going into the Army.

Just adding this to the list.

~Brian

220DSC · #**182** 11-20-2009, 09:07 AM

You have to see the one in Angels and Demons!!! One hour in there is a beautiful car in the Vatican Archives in Rome!!

220DSC · #**183** 11-20-2009, 12:01 PM

H-townbenzoboy · #**184** 11-20-2009, 01:30 PM

Beautiful cars, but this is about DIESEL MBs.

tbomachines · #**185** 11-20-2009, 01:49 PM

I was watching something the other day that had a w123 in it, now I'm kicking myself for not remembering...maybe it'll come to me

tbomachines · #**186** 11-23-2009, 10:00 PM

In the latest Top Gear episode (Season 14, ep 2) there is footage of both w126 and w123 crash tests as sort of "stock" footage. Might be diesel, might not be but they are MBs!

JEBalles · #**187** 12-03-2009, 09:36 PM

9:33 W123 in Fringe. Don't know if it was diesel or not, and the hood looked crumpled

micalk · #**188** 12-03-2009, 10:16 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Muddin

There's a movie called "Once" (not the Spielberg movie, it's by some irish) where a red 300D (or maybe TD) wagon that gets a little bit longer than brief screen time.
Unfortunately, it sounds like a gasser when it starts and runs but it's a pretty little wagon.

Once is a chick flick musical, well done actually. It's a 300TD. Premise of the movie is that this girl and guy cut an indie record. The producer ends up liking what he hears, and after a marathon two day recording session he takes the group to the beach in his car. I think they used the TD because they needed to move about 8 people in one vehicle. Had the fold down seats in the back.

dbn1066 · #**189** 12-03-2009, 11:34 PM

In the video game Call of Duty: Modern Warfare (1 & 2) there are numerous w115's and W123's. Funning thing is they all have w124 interiors. Again, numerous sightings of both models in Blood Diamond (Leo DiCaprio).

dieselman · #**190** 05-31-2010, 10:07 PM

Here is one and I am not sure if it has been mentioned yet. It is sort of funny and sort of sad poor 240d

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pqrWiDGZiP0

unkl300d · #**191** 07-16-2017, 01:22 AM

Just saw a retarded movie named "Burn after reading". Features a 240 d turbodiesel with bat wing headrests from late 1970 and in a later scene Malkovich is driving the car having 1980 type headrests...movie magic! Movie is from 2008. Yeah,240d turbodiesel! :-!

Hellcat94 · #**192** 07-16-2017, 07:21 PM

Dan Aykroyd drives a blue 300SD in the Great Outdoors. Hes the white collar snob and John Candy is the humble bumble.

chasinthesun · #**193** 07-16-2017, 08:05 PM

I imagine it has something to do with budget,if their is one guy who is in charge of a vehicle budget in the movie business the mb diesel carries a certain charm ,its got a certain criteria of vehicle and hardy enough to be a dependable choice.I would like to drive a famour mb ,are any out there amongst the forum members.

resto108 · #**194** 07-17-2017, 12:51 PM

The Great Outdoors car was an 86 560 SEL, not a 300 SD. Check out imcdb.org

unkl300d · #**195** 07-17-2017, 01:31 PM

Also in the BBC TV series "humans" some professor and a synth in one episode drives and escapes in a W123, I believe it was..not sure what episode.

Humans (TV Series 2015