Mercedes Benz W25, W125, W154

[DangerousMirax]

The Benz is in The Saboteur game ;)

[damianfloyd1129]

Your video is a favorite on Guinea

[scribefbk]

must be so fun to drive!

[kedharf1]

they look badass

[Schutzstaffel23]

cut most of the commentary and the homo club music and this is a great vid.

[Pinin500]

@mortenholstebro ; No you can't, a USA V8 is a tractor engine so is more

comparable to agricultural machinery...

Bigger is not always better as the Americans have always insisted..ciao

[brandspro]

Bet it would come as quite the shock to Jimmy Clark, were he still with us, to find that it was John Surtees that won the 1963(!) world championship and not himself. How do you get that wrong? Really!

[Urban50Hermit]

OHC engines go back even further than the twenties. Indeed, the first DOHC engine was in the Peugeot Grand Prix car of (I think) 1912.

By the way, the car Big John is demonstrating is a 1939 model, not 1938 as the commentary implies. The 1938 car can be seen in the B & W footage starting at 3.18.

[CykoNL]

Correct me if I am wrong, but do these 80year+ old engines produce more horsepower then modern day US V8's of equivalent size? Thats hilarious!

[BrianSupreme]

@CykoNL yep, they do ;)

[ajstonent]

@CykoNL Don't forget that back then engines didn't have any rules or regulations to follow like they do today. I bet one of these engines at top speed puts out more pollution than 50 modern cars combined.

[atreewithnolife]

John Surtees is a cool dude!

[odzadze123]

Some techincal details are incorrect

W125 output is 595 horse power (444 kW) in race trim. The highest test bed power measured was 637 BHP (646 PS) at 5,800 rpm

Auto union 3.0 V12 is first OHC engine in the world and produced 485BHP at 7000rpm and more than 500BHP at 8000Rpm

Max power for W154 is 476 BHP(483 PS) at 7,800 rpm,but they newer used that trim in race.

in race power for w154 IS 425BHP,

and Auto union type D gain more victories than W154.

[127069]

@odzadze123 Your figures are completely wrong and the auto union was certainly not first ohc engine, it was in fact unusual in being slow reving and of two valve per cylinder configuration

[odzadze123]

@127069

No

For OHC Auto union V12 it's First.

Almost in same time like Bugatti 1.5 Inline 4 (Supercharged)

(Exceptions is that bugatti have 3 valve per cilinder)

Do some research!

Auto union V16 are OHV and

Slow reving engines,with added Compressor.

[127069]

@odzadze123 you said auto union was FIRST ohc engine which it was not, the bentleys and millers for example of the 20s were ohc for example.,the auto union v16 has a single central camshaft with push rods.the v12 was 3 cam and produced the big power in 1939 when it recieved a two stage super charger

[chussein1]

Can't this guy just shut up for 10 seconds to listen to the sound of this machines!? :)

Please, just 10 seconds!!!!

[principalrhs]

The car shown near the end looks like the 1939 model with the W163 engine. Some of the clips shown (Nurburgring and Monaco) show a W125 accompanied by a W154 sound track - you see a 5.6 litre straight eight, you hear a 3 litre V12. In any case, the shots and sounds are great! And can some IT expert out there find a way to cut out the commentary? Please let the cars do the talking!

[principalrhs]

Lovely sounds and sights - and can any IT experts out there cut out the boring commentary and silly drumbeat music for us? The 154 shown looks more like the 1939 version, usually labelled the W163. The Monaco and Nurburgring shots of the W125 have the wrong sound track - listen again and you'll notice that we are hearing the 3 litre V-12 Benz engine, not the 5.6 litre Straight 8Nice work otherwise.

[willieeckslyke]

Silly drumbeat music? I didn't realise that was any kind of music, I thought that a careless mechanic had knocked over a toolbox!

By the way, if the 1939 car was labelled a W163 then it is incorrect. It was a W154, although fitted with an M163 engine.

Have you seen the vid of Lang lapping the 'Ring in a W125? This is what u-tube was designed for!! Simply brilliant!

[Fritztoons]

So nice to see Sir John handle that car!

It´s not only the car. The men who built these and drove them complete the whole nice picture.

[danyhritcu]

just listen to that noise!!!!!!!!!!!!

[McLarenMercedes]

Mika Hakkinen the 1998,1999 world champion in Formula 1 drove a 1938 W154 and said he was full of respect for the men that raced it in the 1930's. He said it felt like a tank and the brakes nowhere near the level of todays Grand Prix cars. He also drove a 1955 Mercedes W196,and thought it was surprisingly nimble.

[tifosaurus]

Well, I would be surprised if he had said that he found the brakes near todays levels!

[papariccardo]

600hp (W125) on those 1930s crossply tyres!! Must of been fun, even more so in the wet lol. Man, who do I have to sleep with to get a drive...?

[immortaf]

My childhood dream car :D

[nunslittletoy]

still my dream car :) I'd kill for a chance to drive one round the original gp track at donington! I'd probably kill myself too, I don't know how they did it!