a cross or emphasizing the award winning offer is available world wide. every language level. learning jasmine has never been since the 60 years of the miss, 86 hundreds. how it became because a heads of states stalls. i'm hope our student needs refugee is a thriving in asia with a ritual business. outsource in paris can travel on voice and land in the same vehicle, wide, no unrest. the as a mercedes, 600 turn 60. we revisit the history of this iconic car. boasting all manner of

incredible stories about extraordinary passengers, the best of the desk, and the worst worst. why did this car totally street? among the famous owners of the 600 john lady and edi, i mean the instant is ruler. if you've gone to in the 19 seventy's, it looks like the kind of car that somebody important should be driving. hopes were among its most high profile passengers, austria and pop stocum, 2 europeans, perhaps less. so it was all about the status that then right. it was the, the academy of popular. and over the course of 60 years, the mercedes, $600.00 has become a star and its own right. the magnetism of the 600, it just has a presence that no other car has. there's nothing white lights and $600.00. and it

was the best of the best on the luxury front cover and ceiling was the most the best car, mercedes engineers reveled in the challenge of making the impossible possible the engineers or to design the car that you want you think is the best car in the world, and if you give german, it's theaters that kind of get it over checkbook to these guys. something is going to be special. it's a special car, so that makes you a special person. we met the man with an unrivalled familiarity with mercedes, $600.00 orders. the world over peter shell, hammer, deliver the high end cars to their investors, owners and also sort of repairs and maintenance work. and his job included, organizing, test, dries, or potential buyers, which in 1972 may visiting the shot of iran.

remember i convinced you said your account must be better than the roadside, otherwise i don't, i don't want it. i'm not interested in it. i could convince him, as at the end, i was successfully because self pressed on board, 17 of the 600. he handed over mercedes 600 keys to the dozens of heads of state. in most cases, they were bullet proof versions. the founder said change these have been just satisfied with you. this was in 1968 and i delivered the car in egypt to the president. and the is that the is the speciality of his car was that the coverage was protected. and his research was to have moveable windows on the rear

because he was closer fob. you had a feeling to be enclosed too much and therefore he wanted to have the possibility to share the mercedes news. damaged card has one of the to 5 ton bullet proof. models used to ferry state guests in west germany, in the sixties and seventies from britain this queen elizabeth the seconds to leon, impression of leader of the soviet union. these distinguished figures born at the wheel themselves. of course, the backseats frequently became the scene of historic diplomatic tongues, the this of freshman year for, as it did here. and the various other precedence is all the finest materials. use the disco and it's a homely feeling. it helps to improve the conversation,

the atmosphere between the people and on the eastern side of the iron curtain, the 600 again, had some high ranking customers, like president utility was lobby, a tomato belonging to romanian dictator nicoleyechuck. jessica was nowadays on show in a private vintage car collection. the one belonging to envoy hutcher, the decades on leader of albania, is now slowly riding away in a garage in toronto. a luxury mercedes that everyone's warranty. from legendary cuban leader fidel castro, to the founder of the people's republic of china mountains. a tool for countless authoritarian rulers to the 1st 8600 was the ultimate set of wheels. these people, they pointed, always to have the biggest and the nicest of the newest product of the money.

there is no road and therefore they say, oh, you mercedes, i want these guys, well, the rock side of hussein, likewise on the 600 and his love of the armored mercedes model almost spelled do for peter show how not i've always there for service purposes and it just happens as it was in the 90s. in february 9th, even the 1st gulf war broke out. but luckily enough, i was getting out in due time side of hussein's mercedes, 600 is now featured as a peterson automotive museum in los angeles, a state limousine with a very particular set of extras. is that all of these running boards all around the car? so the, his guards of the, there's running boards on the sides and on the back where i guess his body guards

would stand. i would not have bought the car if it was easy. i mean, or the doctor said i wouldn't feel comfortable. how would i ever drive a car that eda me or, or sit down who's saying drove i think that having some sort of positive provenance with it makes it better. so at least, you know, saying it's a roy orbison card for some people that's meaningful and which it certainly is for barry's own. and who bought one such model owned by orbison in the seventy's and eighty's, the car that provided inspiration for some of the american rock ballad use best known song lyrics of that song, roy orbison. but what's funny is it now the car, you know, um if there is no cosette in the car, there's no cd in the car. so i refused to add any of those items. i put

a bluetooth speaker in the back. and i play roy orbison and now i really like it. in fact, roy orbison only drove his beloved mercedes on very special occasions when he died in 1988 the car to poultry, 3000 kilometers on the clock. i bought the car because never want because of his condition. you need to buy a car. i really, really good condition that's been cared for. if you know the car, for instance, the pneumatic, the, the, the, the, the for games switch for the matic windows on the driver's side. that's which alone cost $17000.00. if you, if you, if you, if you're lucky enough to buy, find one new little wonder, given the engineering involved, the car is for that reason it comes with hydraulic system. that means any parts which one to, to be also in its precision is booked electrically operated by ty,

totally and from the drive us to of course, or can operate or for the windows and do it. the idea is it is very quiet, is most humming, there is no sound. the match, silent. running also applies to adjusting the seats at the front and the back. ringback every 600 has a different interior design, customized to the owners, individual wins and wishes. and it's only when you hit the road that you get a real feel for the cars and luxury credentials. we have shut up, so adjustments that means comfortable be right. if soft adjustment

the we drive it and you get a box, you know, use it above because you can see it but you feel it. it just looks like a boat what it feels like to see those leather seats of with the straight spring cruiser down the road. and you know, you just, you, you feel loves years cylinder. $250.00 p s engine propels a $2.00 ton or 2 at top speed of 205 kilometers per hour. and with a chassis set of rivaling that of a top sports car, the 12 prototypes were built over the course of 10 years before the final version was unveiled. the frankfurt motor sho, september 1963. the car went on sale to the public in 3 different versions. between 19631981 receives bill 59 as long delay editions featuring

a convertible top and measuring 6 meters. 24 long are accompanied by 429 units of the regular pullman limousine. likewise with the long wheel base and $2189.00 sedans with a length of just over 5 and a half meters. little model variance had one thing and kind of the extremely sophisticated engineering c, h 2 and injection to injection from the v o. c engine. the instructors had the all the to produce of outstanding take me to take the take a car and they were not limited as far as money is concerned. so that's why they could pay a little bit around with the ideas. so they came to the suspension of his liver

control, adjustable shock absorbers. the total of all the innovations sure is, are extreme, the new modem, because they have a lot of these innovations taking over eager to keep the technically complex cars running. hands across the world of the team does to form national and mercedes, $600.00 clubs. and then of course, we have support for spare parts and garages, where the people can bring that size, which is not very easy because it's not too many people are able to work on. the cars and the parts are limited. the german enthusiasts are in close contact with them. there is in the united states, which thinks also to social media is home to the world's biggest $600.00 club among its members is luis pacheko. he's already taken

a range of aging 6 hundreds and restore them to their former glory or continuing what mercedes did so many years ago and keeping these cars alive and on the road. and i think that's what drives me to be a part of the club. i liked the challenge and i fell in love as soon as i realized how complex the $600.00 square with the hydraulics and everybody in the club as a resource. because everybody has connections versus $8600.00 drivers in the united states, or a close the community and meet up regularly at vintage corner of it. and that's where it varies. so in, in, has picked the price list, tips from the former tv chat, show host and car lever. jay leno. j's out there, he's, he's a real car guy. you know, he's got his own garage with a tremendous collection of cars, including the 600. and he came up to me and talked to me and he says, you know, you gotta be really have to believe these, the, the, the, the eric say,

cuz it gets water. and i said, oh okay, there it was. we've got them on the ground, down on the ground, the ceiling goes down there. i'm going to be down there, right. so i'm and he's showing me how to lead the water out. what makes very soon is mercedes special is the all black styling as desired by roy orbison himself. no one for his dark out fits and shades. but the singer wouldn't have bought the car heading out one day be given a ride in this light blue, 600 and tennessee, which belonged to elvis presley. the that was the 2 of his own. and uh, yeah, and once he wrote it out with his car, that was that, you know, and of course they're both from tennessee, they're both from that area. you know, and, and, and roy was a real assist, you know, cars, you know, he's just love cars. so yeah, and uh yeah, they have to do is i have to have that mercedes, $600.00 became

a global phenomenon, a car and blazing with a star for stars. this is the most expensive car you could buy. okay. so people who had, you know, unlimited amounts of money. uh, and also unlimited need for an image. and i mean, i don't know if the beatles had one that david bowie had one, supposedly even janis joplin, you know, who have that serious. um, oh lord, won't you? by the 1st eighty's bed. that was the car. that was okay. that song she is taking a ride with some other rock star who had was

a mercy of different kind of intoxicating trip for the music scene. but the clientele also included actors like elizabeth taylor and fashion designer coco chanel known could resist the charms of the $600.00 actually eclectic mix of owners from pop star peace activist john lennon to edi. i mean it looks like the kind of the car that somebody important should be driving. so i don't know if the beatles cared about looking important. but i think the world leaders want to what they consider to be the best car john lennon. he bought it because he could do it. right. do you have that much money in for him? i think it was just you know, he made it right. he was successful and it was a great comfortable car. but yeah,

i mean, i think it was more typical dictate, or a showing off button. both had made it in their rounds per se, for sure. the 6 of it attracted the best of the best and the worst of the worst. i don't know where i i belong the mercedes, 600. the ultimate set of wheels for those seeking a bit of automotive majesty. the good, the bad and the beautiful. but presidents pop culture icons and pulse. a german economic miracle in a car that for some symbolizes an era in which nothing was impossible, and the likes of which will probably never see again, the

at the other, this refugee companies this morning. so the most pleasant time of the day, it's still relatively cool. adam and 50 now getting ready for another days when. ready they come from saddam when i fled the unrest a few years ago. the original plan was to get to europe, allergy time and i left to dan in 2015. my conditions back home are really tough. i wanted to go to libya. but when i got there instead of i was tortured and mistreated tiny, i mean, i realized that there would be no future for me. there was no way of getting to italy or anywhere else in europe and the line of government. it was in libya that i met my friends, that the dean. why didn't so we decided to head back to new share. so i thought i'd try to set up a business july 3rd. um, what i need is uh, going to and i'm gonna, i'm gonna,

and we had been on the road for a long time, and i'm gonna say it had a lot of issues and that was why we opted to stay in this year. so we put together our savings and then chose to invest in rickshaws for cut at the end as result of the we're now able to send money back regularly and to our families in sudan looking up the shock and have them my husband. i think they actually started out with a motor bike, but they said they were able to afford or make some light is still they invested in the 2nd one the, the refugee camp, as far as getting them is away from the city of i'll get to that makes it very difficult for residents to get into the 2nd item incessantly and realize that there was a gap in the mortgage. and the business idea was for my family, it's very difficult to find regular work here. there's no point to just sitting

around waiting for somebody to hire you. you have to build up your own business. otherwise time just drags shad one in the 1st trip of the morning is to the main split and the refugee camp. this is where they find most of the customers. there are always people one thing to catch a ride into the city to go shopping. oh, job hunting. tough to agree on a price they get going. the progress is slower, but at least it's a good road. it takes a long time, but it's really beautiful. it reminds me of sudan and will be there soon enough. the more maybe not dust he has to deal with the breakdown. the ritual is old and the

sun. the conditions are a problem for the engine. in the end, everyone has their hands before they can continue. that's in the when they finally get to, i'll get the best time for a break here adam, and instead of being shipped to other ritual drivers, the conversation helps costs the time while they wait for passengers pull the return journey. these days they get on well with the other drivers. i had a chance to get to know 2 of them before they've been driving for 6 months. just the same. i think it's good with some other not from the share of the refugees is it is the data. but the good thing is where they're not just sitting around complaining and waiting for someone to help them listed under the car. their

advocates like us and again, and as long as they're here legally and they can drive a rich country. are they going to put a fairly simple but need to add a struggling to integrate many of the refugees living within its board is, according to mohammedan or up to lie from the un refugee agency. is in that, in the sense you always have to consider the needs of the society that takes in the refugees done per lie. there are not many opportunities here to a level. there are very few development projects in this region. and local people also struggle to find work onto the for actually the, the, the 2 men from these however, have gradually been accepted and are building new relationships with the get. it wasn't easy at 1st. we had to learn the language and be able to integrate better when we're in the city. when we meet passengers and i'll get is,

we're now able to communicate with them and negotiate a price. so we feel very comfortable here. while we finally have a job and feel welcome in the year, shortly before dusk they drive back to the can with the last passengers of the day . business is running well in the evening, it finally starts to get cooler again. the pair of both themselves, the stereo system from the endings they have a generator to provide electricity to add them in such a dean. it's finally time to relax and enjoy the evening. the most signs that come uh or most so, but the powers this 1st to be is to above us,

but can navigate on the gun bullshit. just before going into the river, said the drive is disabled, the wheels and activates the prepared a village. a little ash gives you a little high, just like when you're sitting on a swing or run an amusement park or i don't know. i was in the votes it driver can use either the brother or the steering wheel to see and my cell is a desk until it's time to return to drive. the most challenging moment is when you leave the water, you have the movers of linux. tricky. at 1st to assume that you need to think, okay, i'm a boat now and the coming across again as you've been to the on this most

of the doctors through paris 3 times a day with such a 5 passenger tickets. cost setting on yours for adults and 23 years for children. divide takes an hour and 45 minutes. 20 minutes of which is spent on the bus license took the company 7 years. the bus which was built in the us and front is based on a truck strain. the. it was the sole operations position in the middle of the bus is crucial. we recently moved up to the moment. i'll put some buses. it's at the back which wouldn't work in the water and with the but most of them you can see see we have 2 independent engines. so a combustion one. and then electrical, one of the bank was it's a battery down call that has a capacity of $22.00 kilobytes houses, which means a lot of charging for not much range that the technology is evolving. so our next

model might have double that to what the company is working on. a big brothers who am i sell the duck, which is expected to make a slash on the river then in a few years time and join us again. next time more read the, the, the

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