Driven (Channel 4) - Luxury Cars - February 2000

Vintage episode of Channel 4's motoring series 'Driven' featuring the Mercedes S-Class, Range Rover Autobiography and Rolls Royce Silver Seraph as they are put head to head in the Driven 100. Also featuring an investigation on faulty Ford Explorers and Driven's Car of the Series. Presented by Mike Brewer, Penny Mallory and Jason Barlow.
Air date is approximate (do correct me in the comments if I've got it wrong!).
More on the series here:
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[@oldmoley1599]

Takes me back. I was heavily involved in this programme during filming at my old workplace, and remember running that Rolls down the runway just before the shoot. The location is in Essex, and is shortly about to be "developed"

[@TheJohnlyh]

Its 2021 and i can finally afford these cars

[@matthewking5612]

Apart from the Rolls

[@user-sf7kl9uh7k]

Don't buy a pre 2004 Mercedes, unless you think rust is cool.

[@TheJohnlyh]

@@user-sf7kl9uh7k yeah not to mention all the sticky plastic too 🤨

[@user-sf7kl9uh7k]

@@TheJohnlyh Yeah. The (post 2004) W211 was a good car, the W204 was quite good too. I like the W124 (rear wheel bearing changes aside!) but just can't stand the rust. The e28/34 was nowhere near as bad, the Audi 100/A6 galvanized.

[@TheJohnlyh]

@@user-sf7kl9uh7k i own a 2010 w204 and previously a 1994 w124 both cars are really solid and reliable, parts are plentiful. As for rust i live in Malaysia, cars don't rust here but the issue is paint, at tropical climate the paint is easily gone after 6-8 years

[@malthuswasright]

So Brewer's always been like that... explains a lot.

[@markthompson50]

Who would have thought that Mike Brewer would have grown to be the actual size now that he was inflated up to be all those years ago in the Fat Cat test!

[@st_ate1856]

Bit of a nitpick but I wouldn't have bought any Mercedes-Benz after 1998 probably, when that model of S-Class was launched. The acquisition by Chrysler just seemed to trigger a downward trajectory of interior quality?

[@vladimir.vrachanski]

If the S class was Long Wheelbase... No chance for the brits

[@richardprice7763]

I remember Carl Crompton's lottery win....lucky sod!

[@rangavenkat4743]

16:42 Pentium III

[@turquoisecat761]

That Barlow was so irritating

[@matthewking5612]

That's why they killed his career.

[@ES-pt3mr]

Who looks at a Mercedes on the streets.

[@farishanafiah8461]

You won't believe it, but there are still people who look at Mercs.

[@MBJaguar1007]

that Mercedes is super boring...

[@kevsterrobert1847]

have you Ever Owned 1?

[@smotpoker15]

@@kevsterrobert1847 right.... my w220 s55k is definitely far from boring!

[@gabrielcaramet3238]

@@kevsterrobert1847 the answer is in his pfp he has an old roller

[@ES-pt3mr]

Only idiots drives Mercedes