of these places in europe smashing the rank one step into a bold adventure. it's the treasure map for modern globetrotters. describe it as some of us wriggled bragging sites on youtube and also into the electric powered classics in photo tap for say, these all new e class right now on read the, the i, a and munich is being shaped more and more by china, which is exactly why we send a reporter from our chinese service to give you

a special perspective on the line over here at the international motor show and unit one of your biggest. and i'm going to show you my top 5 highlight the so jenny and no one kind of the wallpaper in 5th place in my ranking of top moments from the i a is what i think is one of the most remarkable cars here to trace the world's 1st, now bullet proof electric car, finally dance you to see sort of phone done to, you know, treat this car has one of the highest levels of safety possible. and that's the golgi via phone, on the outside, it looks just like a regular bmw y 7 pre good format. so using the itc the mail from type out on the side, it's only when you look at the tire looked as you've said, you realize that there's something special your portfolio as well. so i'm in june june council. something cool you from your and politic sions are often accused of asking people to make their lives more environmentally friendly. or even selves

drive around in large gas guzzling machine bother nasal. daniel cheese, what? how much it, how much one or 2 way guy do you see what that can change with this car and i'll do it. so what's the 1st time a fully electric bullet proof car available to german politicians? 20 again, don't want him to do what i thought so. so i a took my personal number for a moment from the i a see who is last generation to who you guys. so you got one ball come in the lines of climate change activity. so. so if you have been causing quite a stir around the world, i, you know, be electronics inputs as youtube, tv. in order to prove that the i a is open to criticism. the organizers invited the group to have a spend the show calling. but the group decided not to protest here. they didn't want to be cooperative by the show, the choosing, coming to call you using symbol don't want is that more they chose to protest in other places in munich, instead of incidentally in germany, it's the muted police who have taken the harshest action against last generation so

sure, one of your future from the to do what i've also highlighted the show for me is that they're almost more stanz showcase and bicycles and cars. green mobility has arrived in germany and it's not just the mean except that we get to see such bikes. as and cri you cannot say on the true here, you can see bikes like this channel, then this puts and this isn't true for germans, the bicycle is an important part of the switch to green mobility, so can valuable for it. so you can go towards the issues of a lot, maybe in the future. we won't need cars at least in cities, because we'll have these things it we'll down to the. so that's our show, whole kind of, you know, the car you see behind me is the 2nd biggest surprise at the show are factors. so that's useful to use development overrun in 10 months by 30 students from the

university of ein to open. another model you now nicole kaya runs forever. i never seem to visions of why you mentioned on because it uses the same concept to as lego, based on sales. let's say it's out of the, for all the parts that you can see on the outside and don't like the green body panels can be replaced with new ones as time goes by. and it's susie and like swapping out a lego block, right. so i'm gonna assume this means the car can be refreshed repeatedly, which is why they say it's a car that can be driven forever, right? how you pay the 3, what i, what the most remarkable thing for me is that there were no combustion engine. cars within the execution area. time in it just electric cars design. you'll see this will go into the i a has received a lot of criticism in the past, which is especially from environmental groups, which is why this year only electric cars were permitted in the home. yeah.

is it to legendary combustion engine? cars like the latest, of course you $911.00, you present it to mark the 60. the anniversary of the iconic sports car were banished to the open space in downtown unit. the i a is transforming into a more environmentally friendly mobility show where a spawning a gas guzzler has become quite rare. the this 1952 v w micro bus rules through the streets of the time without emitting any pollutants, then still has its original body work, but is powered by an electric motor, classic car fan and race garcia is the commercial manager of f co, a company that for around $7700.00 euros converts old cars to green power city almost the way that we want it to continue enjoying old cars. but given

environmental conditions and our quality of life, it didn't seem responsible to continue doing a combustion engine to pass the company through. the goal was to the fact that most classics have been well maintained by their owners, means they're excellent candidates for an electric conversion which improves their longevity and performance. and the way we really took advantage of the engine mount, the engineering and the cars geometry. so that the cars performance is the same as it was with the combustion engine, was looking at the main challenge is adapting the existing structure. well, also guaranteeing that the new mechanism for work. but daniel, the mechanical engineer in charge of the design, is sure that this method can convert any classic into an electric vehicle. guys already to pay to every vehicle comes with a set of challenges. you're going to see that in general, it's possible to adapt any type of vehicle we try to optimize power delivery and we

try to improve the vehicles functioning without effecting its esthetics or originality. i've seen, i think the loading i meant the new tech integrated into the original vehicle provide the user with all the comforts of driving a modern vehicle. what's more, the electric energy, the power is the car is stored in rechargeable batteries. does, but the desk you put into is how many batteries we use, for example, have 3600 cycles. it is here. and what does that mean? if a car like this has a range of 200 kilometers on a single charge, that means we will have a useful battery life of about 700000 kilometers anymore chosen very close around 12 to 15 years of battery life. i don't know what the the electric motor ensures there are no tail pipe emissions and hardly any noise to pluses for a city that suffers from the worst traffic jams in latin america. while the number of to start electric and hybrids vehicles in columbia has been on the rise and

recent years, the country is still far away from fully transitioning to e. mobility. really doesn't get that great limitation is the countries infrastructure. and yes, in that sense, it could become a more globalized industry or become more comfortable for the people who are going to buy the final product on one of the that's an opinion shared by oman, oral sticky, or the day, especially with private vehicles, not a whole buildings or houses have the infrastructure to allow recharging something either to the city side. yeah. and the concerns about re charging these electric vehicles is making the transition process even slower. okay. and photos, hey, if i brought this young the out of the country and be a good time or bidding a lot on the energy transition in which the price is internet, typically in the case of the commitment is considerable. or today, many of the buses are electric and also operate with low emission engines, which contributes a lot to do, contaminating the air. and i think what else is well, up,

or if i want to see more or less with, i mean that's in the night. others, structural aspects also slow down e p adoption. they're only about 40 charging points for the city of about 8000000 people. but i'm place has a more optimistic vision video case as well. for me, i think this is a way of demonstrating that we can also work hand in hand with governments within the photo. so what i mean, we've got a one car surely isn't going to make us big of an impact as other measures might it before it goes. but when it's no longer just one car, but $500.00 or a 1000, i mean, we will certainly have made a positive impact towards the habitability of our cities. i love you. tell me the i just thought of vintage vehicles converted to electric. the classic designs of the past with clean energy of the present motoring into the future. cars, cars from the and i'm with millions of unique stars. that's the

dna. john coffin, we need you guys wherever you are. however, up here, flick, passion is our module and jo stories, our currency. we have phone calls from gemini and the craziest place all across to this one here is, is all dictated from albania, that officially never exist grad once, you're sorry. and we try to figure out why we feel such a strong emotional only with these machines. just story 2 ideas and cost by itself and millions and millions of use that. com. and most of all the fact that makes us better. this video make me add all my buckets. yep. that's to love.

so cool to watch. keep going. well, thank you for the question is now flash. if we go next, right to wherever your sentence your stories and your crazy car into the let's catch up soon. on ref, the mercedes for generations, it's been the benchmark for people around the world ripped as a run day with the 8 and the new world to see the glass of a vehicle that in bodies the spirit of the era in which it was made. and with them and which continues to be a source of inspiration for car designers, manufacturers and losing. so you'd have to have money in the mercedes benz e class of sleep, which in 3 decades has a cheap mass of success world wide, especially in the air of karma, getting not, i mean,

what's the secret to this success not to be from a civil war that nothing to go on field today, we're in vienna to experience one of the latest and most powerful models in this category. and we're taking the e 400 e 4 medic for a test drive and trying to see how good the car is out if we might have to offer perhaps welcome us, mercedes, a german car brand with over 100 years of heritage, the vehicle that there's the 3 pointed stars, the very of hidden, may have been destructible, and the e class is beloved all around the world. let me know the form that you're looking to see which of us doesn't know the famed mercedes. 3 pointed star can be the very same star that finds itself on the grill of this special car. i mean, there's the e $400.00 informatics with the the star is the symbol of strength of longevity. and also a symbol of trust in the current sally kingdom and even after countless kilometers and it's especially loved in the arab world ever does. yeah,

this is my treasure for the engine is very old. i have definitely at least 40 years old that a lot of it is right. that credit runs. good . my name is mohammed bobo woods. i mean i've been driving taxis in tennessee since 1954. when i come sold 0 or drop medina. we get the best and most expensive taxi i've ever driven wisdom or savings to 50. yeah, there's a home back on malcolm before i guess if i'm entirely honest. i've never driven a mercedes before, but it's exciting that my 1st experience driving one is in a new country and in new territory, you know. and then the newest mercedes model open clear that it also means that this very exciting experience is about takes me straight onto the auto bond with the city of to

pull about that and cannot adapt a driving on the autobahn from vienna. and here we enter the country side of the seen, the car work smoothly and safely with the tech, giving me precise warning signals and all curves and the streets quitting difficult, no matter how narrow they may be, what i show it, i'm kind of familiar as i said we're in vienna at around lake noisy and it's summer mid summer and we had a very, very hot test day. almost air of conditions. maybe we shouldn't have switched off the air conditioning favor of engine noise. because the ac actually works really well. a lot of the sweat pouring on my forehead is probably clearly visible in this picture, but it's always about filming reports. we're at the mercy of the camera view at the property of the. so let's venture across some near

unchartered territory to get a better idea of this e class hybrid the and of course let's have fun driving the miles of corn field surrounded by monstrous windmills. the head of the, there's royal test driving this car i was in on the landscape. we drove through to landscape where greenery meets technology and clean engineering click on something that's reflected in the car itself, which also produces clean energy and consumes it in a bit to be more environmentally friendly mobile. now, this plug in hybrid mercedes achieves a range of around 100 kilometers with its electric motor without having to switch to a 2 liter combustion engine. but more of that later in the field,

i was sitting in this car for the 1st time brought back memories of my early childhood and youth case. i knew how my friends and i would vide to sit next to the driver as if it was some sort of honor or privilege of doing that. but it seems that childhood dream is coming true, and i'll be at a bit late. but and this time i'm right behind the wheel, this very luxurious cardio alpha the, here's the money we have, the car hasn't woken many memories and especially memories of my childhood memories of my grandfather, of when he would take me on trips as a small child, while visiting his friends of the car, it's going to be off until the taxis to commute and they were off in the same category of cars to kinetic a. i also remember many trips on cordless vehicle with friends and fellow students from the region where i grew out at the kind of for the fee and specifically trips and the middle class on or the e class,

mercedes. that is an end for you. and we'll talk about always a minute. sure. and i'm sure millions of people around the world feel the same way i do for cities as a global phenomena. the class alone has sold over 16000000 units since 1947. this makes this model series the most successful mercedes of all time present the guy, minnesota. what's the secret? and so this monumental success, like for folks guidance, the secret of our successes that we have reinvented ourselves again and again with which we cover a large number of different customers, whether they want something sporty or l to get or modern define what they want in the class, you know fit. how does mercedes want to position itself in the arrow market as a sustainable brand? as a luxury oriented brand or a manufacturer of strong engines, it's cut out in 2023. will have a car on the market that will have everything up and from a 4 cylinder petro and these. so this one is

a $600.00 or petro and diesel. we will also have hybrid plugins. and i also think maybe it could be something for the air of region for a bridge at some point into the electric world, for example, this plug in hybrid that'd be so you're looking at the bottom of this car that i'm driving today can be charged me and i'm, of course, i can be refueled with regular fuel on the right hand side of the can also be charged with electricity. but i'm fast charging stations using this port on the left side of europe, or in the air, a bridge, and or in areas where there are no fast charging stations, not collecting this household adapter. can also be used to charge the car at home, trying to see a few minutes. and of course, digital communication is also important. the mercedes benz user interface is intuitive, but sometimes overwhelming with every conceivable app on it and $27.00 languages on offer alone. mercedes? yes please. what's the temperature outside the cottage?

right now it's sunny with a temperature of $28.00 degrees celsius. why should you need that? i show you how we feel. good. thanks, mercedes. sure, good. thanks. mercedes benz, i have the show. chrysler say it is. now you know things needed well, or whether expert is pretty chatty. another little mercedes. let me tell you what arabic dialect can you speak? i love the german national team though, even though i used to sports well, we set up and clearly there's room for improvement. but what's the navigation system like not far away as jerusalem mercedes or to show the guidance is not yet activated. the young shock, thanks. mercedes spends. that's just normal bobby,

i will. okay. then at least it was fun to try it out naturally. we don't really want to drive all the way to jerusalem. instead, we want to really go deeper into the 4 hundreds driving dynamics and put its quality in the tech under the microscope in the water. as you mean, it was great is that the rear wheels also turn along with the front wheels to the thanks the mercedes rear axle steering for the low speeds up to 4 and a half degrees warner. and at higher speeds you go to they move up to 2 and a half degrees here. that's the people who haven't tried this out yet. who will be very impressed with the system as was the case with me and then agility and comfort . the rear axle steering is a merc, trademark and kennedy. and also financially. if i had to describe this car in 3 words or accurately describe my 1st impression of it, i would say it's classic, sporty and intelligence, the what vecchio. and now for the older generation,

the father, the grandfather, and the great grandfather of the class. much i don't for the appointment of christine, perhaps closer to having it for old car lovers and procures must have been you know, there's 170 mark at the beginning of the production of the class, the cars from the german, karmic or the battlefield. there are other cars and like this model been that have had great success around the world. i think i have the vision, but there's another model there's, it has to be the opposite. this 11 for like, sold in record numbers in the arrow bro. well, me, us for auto body shop that we have to go for the ottoman obviously in fact it, yeah, there are a few taxi's on the error world that if managed to clock more than 1000000 kilometers, i mean, you can, you imagine i could have it will come when i opened my help up getting it of course there are several models, but this model is especially important to move those beyond. i'll put some, it was with this model in the year 1993 that mercedes officially use the class name . that's me, i don't know if me get a minute and from the and this model now is the latest lock and why city in years

of development, the heritage that culminates in this new 2024 model has a 30 year at all or some sort of going to now we're going to test drive this powerful model for you, the mercedes, w 124, and the most of them. and if i can, especially if i was a little worried when i've been asked to try my hand to driving old machines, especially those without automatic transmission. and i'll click on the initial aspect, but this car box, so w 124 deals and wonderful to drive. you mean it looks simply beautiful. i showing i showed it also looks just like the cars people, my generation are used to let the dog without a, i know the ged. but it doesn't about to be here. after just a few minutes behind the wheel. and i have to say that for a machine,

billable 30 years ago. um and it drives exactly like a modern car here. let me look about. so it's fair to say that it's a head of its time. would be a little close. it's for this reason that i believe the chief high levels of success around the world, including an error countries where they're just give you how to a lot of them been doing it on the island since driving the classic is so much fun . i find myself asking whether the newer models also have what it takes to some day become classics is spinning. but i am convinced that it will continue to be successful in the future. and also that there will be classic vehicles in the future. but i think that the know how that is needed will change this, know how it has been new distribute, and then you need fewer people who are familiar with sheet metal work outside. you need someone who is familiar with software to be able to continue driving. this vehicle as a class and then the bottom. um, especially if you had a choice between all of these cars that we see here here, or the class,

that's it. and because what would be your pick evenings, although they sleep, i live in saint cloud. i love all of our classics, and i would say i loved each of them for different reasons and i loved the rottenness of this car, and i loved the elegance of the tale fans. i loved the dark green color of the w 114, and then doing good, glean window. but then if i were to drive one, i would say the pontoon told by that because it's like a mixture of a classic vintage car with the steering mount, a gear shift. obviously a big move, for example, that requires a 10th of driving on at the same time, you can cruise along without having to concentrate too much. well any, i mean i would choose the pontoon and then on and you choose it over the new 2024 model knowing whatever, sponsored fantastic screens. you know, well you're speaking to the spokes person for mercedes benz classic. so i will always choose the classic vehicle because i have an affinity to them. but i have also driven the new e class and i have to say it is an impressive vehicle, but my heart beats for the classroom mind,

it helps like for the classic the just and then just ask for the reason for the success of the how well the to meet the answer is clear. when i look at their pioneering mentality in the, your site that prevail, that mercedes back in the day that the kind of tell you that the funding of an ad wondering whether this success story can continue as well. and kind of, it's hard for me to say so that was because mercedes has begun to focus on elements of the luxury and the luxury model. this one which i believe cater to a specific group of people any but a look and see how they got those, let them to have it on all on those sort of kind of a homo. what would that i'll study? and then also when we think of the rape and region on the lines are even more complicated. one does not, since it has a variety of terrain, but just demanding in the cost of the current plays a very significant role abilities. and a lot of these models are priced upwards of 55000 barrel lob the old and more human

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