i was on the highway from Regensburg to Budapest when i saw one of these ... man i really could accept an SLS on the 1st stage because its perfectly showing modern shapes and keeping the good old race cars shapes :)
@Alexboooom remote starter for mercedez bens started about 2007. Factory remote starter contains engine start-up, engine shut down, local-plug and play (audio system), and seat adjustment. Custom version made such as smartkey or keyless-go got extra optional functions can be applied for older version of mercedes. Now they can do a limited speed drive ? whew. that's new.
Anyone else confused as to how the driver was able to get in and out of the car when it was in the truck? Gull wing doors don't open well in confined spaces.
I don't think Adam get's the point. It's also a great response to the BMW rocket car commercial. Two very well done commercials. It all about having fun which is basically what driving a Mercedes is.
quite funny is the fact that german carmakers have always looked down on the american muscle philosophy of large displacement V8 engines and braced themselves for not having to go big to crank out massive power yet they have increasingly and quietly adopted quite the same philosophy in recent years-
what an incredible machine i dont own a sls but a c43 the little brother, amg just makes astonishing vehicles they behave like nascars on a constant basis, they will never give up on you meaning you can drive it all day like a nascar if you really wanted to and pull up to a red light car will be idling at 600rpm like nothing flawless.
Correction, it wasn't ascari, it was Gumpert: "Gumpert claim the design of the Apollo is optimized so that the car could drive upside-down in a tunnel if driven at sufficiently high speeds (over 190 mph), but this has not been tested." - Guess why?! So, possible? Yes. With the SLS? Maybe, with special modifications. Doable - Very unlikely. It's close to suicide.
It is possible for any vehicle, to roll through a loop or full pipe, much like a roller coaster going through a loop, or skateboarder in a pipe, however a F1 car produces enough downforce to drive at speed literally "on the ceiling" which I believe people are getting this "loop" supposedly done by the sls confused with.......
@zildog the point was to show you how powerful and good car the sls is thats the reason that it also shows the interior the noice and the acceleration and the way the doors open the part with the tunel is just for fun
Everything i have read says that it is possible if rhe tunnel was cylindrical (which it was) and the car was maintaining the proper speed (not too fast or slow). Sick video...and I WANT that car.
The Car doesn't currently produce enough downforce for this to actually work, add a little bigger front spoiler and back spoiler and an extra 50mph and maybe it would, but its just not possible by physics.
If Mercedes did this commercial for the purpose of people raising passionate opinions and debates,then i guess they succeeded . Car itself is looker and it should drive as a real Benz super-car too.Great job Germans!!
If you pause and play and pause and play you will see that there is a ramp to get on and off the wall so if you are going fast enough you can do this. Just like the motorcycle riders that would go horizontal around the pens in carnivals.
I wouldn't want to be the firemen standing in the drivers way ... very dangerous setup and stupid to show it set up that way. Tunnel full of people and a guy driving through it. I test drove and SLS AMG a few weeks back ... that made me want the car far more than this commercial. In fact, the commercial is kind of embarrassing. For a lot less money the C63 AMG is a pretty amazing car. Love the gullwing style tho
That REALLY made me ROFL. I was thinking like "OK... dude's gonna pull off some crazy moves or something... this is gonna be awesome!" - Seems like there IS such a thing as "too awesome" xD On the plus side, now i want this car in Trackmania ^__^ Loved the eagle sound synchronized with the opening doors.
@Ur0pinionDoesntCount nope, thats actually possible. when a car creates downforce, it makes a low pressure system underneath the car to pull itself to the road thru the magic of areodynamics. Put everything upside down, and the downforce becomes "upforce" and pulls the car up instead of pushing it down.
These scientists should be on Jackass. They spent all this time doing equations and setting it up and spending all of this money just to do an awesome stunt.
it would have been amazing if they actually did it. but a perfect powerslide all the way through that tunnel would have kept it real...and been amazing.
@AlekreSD It'd be better if the resurrected version looked more like the original in terms of the front end treatment. That's where the SLS disappoints.
On reading your headline I thought you were being harsh, but you were right. Setting it up to look like an actual experiment, wich they full well know isn't even theoretically possible with that car, is offensively stupid. It's even in a LEGAL greyzone with false advertisement and all that stuff.
ronadonaramalamadingdong: Heavy compared to what? The new Lexus "supercar" that's too light to maintain traction under throttle? You don't seem to know as much as you think you do.
@googboog Ya, that was really cool, but it was fake though :( If you watch closely, you see the lights suddenly dissapear when he is doing the barrelroll itsself :/
@brentsflyingv Jealous? You don't know what I do for a living do you? This commercial is completely ABSURD. The whole point of it was a barrel roll in a tunnel? Wow, I really want to go out and buy one so I can try the same thing...
@CoyoteEvents they pushed it into the truck and pulled it out, afterwards. Just for the filming szenes, you can let someone sit inside the car to drive it in and out.
Der Krieg hat sie getötet, anstatt neun Kategorien von Kraftfahrzeugen, Motor-und Motorentechnik, die einem Verbrauch von mehr als 100 Litern pro 100 Kilometer verbraucht.
@rippkurlzable The Ferrari 458 is probably all the things you've said, but I'm sure the people who actually buy the SLS will appreciate the fact it is much more rare than the Ferrari is.
@Gironimo16 Hmm, if that's true then that's alright. I'm speaking from the British way of using English so of course there are variances between UK English and US English.
No surprise here. A lot of new commercials are just as uninspired as this was. They're becoming more and more abstract which makes me wonder what the whole point is. I bet there's some subliminal shit going on because let's be honest here. They spend a hell of a lot of money on advertizing and they've been sellling their shit for a loooooong time. So there must be a specific intent behind such a ridiculous facade
@brentsflyingv ARE YOU SERIOUS? that stunt on top gear was 100% CG. They did it for a laugh, since they discussed supercars being able to go upside down several times. As is this commercial. I'm not saying the car is not great, but the physics behind the stunt are next to impossible. Some company (Ascari I think) designed an engine that would work upside-down, but you needed to go about 200mph and nobody was stupid enough to try it out. So yeah. Shut up.
@beyondthepack Dude there's nothing ugly about this car at all. The only ugly thing about it is the retarded barrel roll this moronic commercial was built around.
@slickrickbawss ahhh thanks for the clarification, ya i heard about that being possible, even though everyone tells me that this particular car weighs too much to actually do this
have a sense of humor dude. yeah its absurd if you think about it, but the point of the commercial is really just to convince people of how awesome the SLS is supposed to be.
why is this titled "retared" i don't see anyth... 2:09 WOOOOOOOOOOOT!
i was on the highway from Regensburg to Budapest when i saw one of these ... man i really could accept an SLS on the 1st stage because its perfectly showing modern shapes and keeping the good old race cars shapes :)
@Alexboooom
remote starter for mercedez bens started about 2007. Factory remote starter contains engine start-up, engine shut down, local-plug and play (audio system), and seat adjustment. Custom version made such as smartkey or keyless-go got extra optional functions can be applied for older version of mercedes. Now they can do a limited speed drive ? whew. that's new.
i love the guy does a little fist pump after the flip thingy he did in the tunnel
Anyone else confused as to how the driver was able to get in and out of the car when it was in the truck? Gull wing doors don't open well in confined spaces.
I don't think Adam get's the point. It's also a great response to the BMW rocket car commercial. Two very well done commercials. It all about having fun which is basically what driving a Mercedes is.
quite funny is the fact that german carmakers have always looked down on the american muscle philosophy of large displacement V8 engines and braced themselves for not having to go big to crank out massive power yet they have increasingly and quietly adopted quite the same philosophy in recent years-
what an incredible machine i dont own a sls but a c43 the little brother, amg just makes astonishing vehicles they behave like nascars on a constant basis, they will never give up on you meaning you can drive it all day like a nascar if you really wanted to and pull up to a red light car will be idling at 600rpm like nothing flawless.
Correction, it wasn't ascari, it was Gumpert: "Gumpert claim the design of the Apollo is optimized so that the car could drive upside-down in a tunnel if driven at sufficiently high speeds (over 190 mph), but this has not been tested." - Guess why?! So, possible? Yes. With the SLS? Maybe, with special modifications. Doable - Very unlikely. It's close to suicide.
Why is it that Mercedes-Benz commercials always give me goosebumps. Awesome video!
It is possible for any vehicle, to roll through a loop or full pipe, much like a roller coaster going through a loop, or skateboarder in a pipe, however a F1 car produces enough downforce to drive at speed literally "on the ceiling" which I believe people are getting this "loop" supposedly done by the sls confused with.......
@zildog the point was to show you how powerful and good car the sls is thats the reason that it also shows the interior the noice and the acceleration and the way the doors open the part with the tunel is just for fun
Everything i have read says that it is possible if rhe tunnel was cylindrical (which it was) and the car was maintaining the proper speed (not too fast or slow). Sick video...and I WANT that car.
Thanks for all innovation technology that bring to my life. I feel this my life style and like I am in this car...
It's actually possible. It's just physics.
The Car doesn't currently produce enough downforce for this to actually work, add a little bigger front spoiler and back spoiler and an extra 50mph and maybe it would, but its just not possible by physics.
What is the name of the song that starts at 2:17?
this isn't retarded............ IT'S BRILLIANT
ok guys im confused...
did he realy drove through the tunel ? at the wall and the turn and blaa
or is it a fake ?
those wings at the end made me chiver
@ouDEbilibao
I also wonder how the driver can get in the car even with regular sidedoor while in the truck. Trunk perhaps ?
"Hmmm, not bad"
*rolls*
"WHAT THA F*CK?"
hey i could make my car go upside down too, just give me a couple of beers
If Mercedes did this commercial for the purpose of people raising passionate opinions and debates,then i guess they succeeded .
Car itself is looker and it should drive as a real Benz super-car too.Great job Germans!!
If you pause and play and pause and play you will see that there is a ramp to get on and off the wall so if you are going fast enough you can do this. Just like the motorcycle riders that would go horizontal around the pens in carnivals.
2:14 In Soviet Russia, the road drives on you.
I wouldn't want to be the firemen standing in the drivers way ... very dangerous setup and stupid to show it set up that way. Tunnel full of people and a guy driving through it.
I test drove and SLS AMG a few weeks back ... that made me want the car far more than this commercial. In fact, the commercial is kind of embarrassing. For a lot less money the C63 AMG is a pretty amazing car. Love the gullwing style tho
Micheal schumacher's supposed to be driving that car in the ad
That REALLY made me ROFL.
I was thinking like "OK... dude's gonna pull off some crazy moves or something... this is gonna be awesome!" - Seems like there IS such a thing as "too awesome" xD
On the plus side, now i want this car in Trackmania ^__^
Loved the eagle sound synchronized with the opening doors.
That was an amazing commercial!!! but i have a question. If you open the door ,while you run with sls, will you fly?
@Ur0pinionDoesntCount
nope, thats actually possible. when a car creates downforce, it makes a low pressure system underneath the car to pull itself to the road thru the magic of areodynamics. Put everything upside down, and the downforce becomes "upforce" and pulls the car up instead of pushing it down.
jeremy clarkson did the same thing in a twingo or something on top gear
What makes this ad more absurd than all other ads?
These scientists should be on Jackass. They spent all this time doing equations and setting it up and spending all of this money just to do an awesome stunt.
it would have been amazing if they actually did it.
but a perfect powerslide all the way through that tunnel would have kept it real...and been amazing.
its so dramatic i thought i was looking at a movie trailer after the first minute
@AlekreSD It'd be better if the resurrected version looked more like the original in terms of the front end treatment. That's where the SLS disappoints.
well, someone has to write a letter to the Mythbusters and see whether it is really possible
On reading your headline I thought you were being harsh, but you were right. Setting it up to look like an actual experiment, wich they full well know isn't even theoretically possible with that car, is offensively stupid.
It's even in a LEGAL greyzone with false advertisement and all that stuff.
ronadonaramalamadingdong: Heavy compared to what? The new Lexus "supercar" that's too light to maintain traction under throttle? You don't seem to know as much as you think you do.
@ronadonpoppable
it seems like you know your stuff about cars.
Im buying a high end-luxury car next december, what do you think I'd get?
Yes this video was real. Filmed on the Trans Canada Highway. Actually happened, nothing fake.
@Jeshualionheart .
"USE THE BOOST TO GET THROUGH! DO A BARREL ROLL!"
how did the driver get in the car when the car was in the truck, the door go up
where is schumacher?
@googboog Ya, that was really cool, but it was fake though :(
If you watch closely, you see the lights suddenly dissapear when he is doing the barrelroll itsself :/
Respect the resurection of a legend.
Filmed in the China Bar tunnel on the Fraser Canyon #1 Highway, BC
the guy driving used to race in the f1 for ferrari
@brentsflyingv
Jealous? You don't know what I do for a living do you?
This commercial is completely ABSURD. The whole point of it was a barrel roll in a tunnel?
Wow, I really want to go out and buy one so I can try the same thing...
it might be faked. but its possible.
fomular 1 cars are able to drive continously under the ceiling at a minimum speed of 70km/h (about 43,49mp/h).
indeed.. the title matches 99%
@CoyoteEvents they pushed it into the truck and pulled it out, afterwards. Just for the filming szenes, you can let someone sit inside the car to drive it in and out.
@Timmymna He did do it in a G-wizz, twice... at the same time
why driver open both doors when he's getting out?
Der Krieg hat sie getötet, anstatt neun Kategorien von Kraftfahrzeugen, Motor-und Motorentechnik, die einem Verbrauch von mehr als 100 Litern pro 100 Kilometer verbraucht.
if god have car...
It MUST be a Mercedes....
Yeah it seems they spent millions of dollars developing the car just for that barrel roll, lmfao.
You guys realize that a formula 1 car, and even several super cars can theoretically drive upside down in a tunnel due to their downforce systems.
@rippkurlzable The Ferrari 458 is probably all the things you've said, but I'm sure the people who actually buy the SLS will appreciate the fact it is much more rare than the Ferrari is.
Mercedes can get sued, they forgot to put "Do not try this stunt" so if an idiot decides to try it and crashes, Mercedes is going bust.
Dear santa...
@deestilo How do you know it is day or two?
Stop wining..it's a cool commercial..
and the gullwings add to the excitement.. I know caus i've got a Delorean..
zildog are you with BMW ? Name one car better than the SLS in it's class! And not some car that has an engine but one that can be used daily!
that WAS the Stig!
no it been done on top gear in a citroen twingo
If mercedes can prove it to me then ill go out and buy one
why spend this much money on a car to drive upside-down in a tunnel when you can do it for a lot less in a Renault Twingo?
I have seen tons of commercials waaay dumber than this.
that beautiful beast belongs to Roger Federer.
@Gironimo16 Hmm, if that's true then that's alright.
I'm speaking from the British way of using English so of course there are variances between UK English and US English.
sounds exactly like a lion in 2:33! :o
@Jeshualionheart When the driver get arrested for speeding.
No surprise here. A lot of new commercials are just as uninspired as this was. They're becoming more and more abstract which makes me wonder what the whole point is. I bet there's some subliminal shit going on because let's be honest here. They spend a hell of a lot of money on advertizing and they've been sellling their shit for a loooooong time. So there must be a specific intent behind such a ridiculous facade
It pulled a Herbie...
downforce is a beautiful thing... but i dont think that sls goes fast enough to actually do that
@YGdirektor Its called exaggeration. it catches peoples eye. they still know its fake they just do it to attract attention, its called a commercial.
@ShixiangnMinecraft
this car cant reach that speed! R u kidding? Thats Veyron and Aero territory. This could probably hit 215, give or take 10
Derrr I'm a commercial .... DERRRR
@brentsflyingv ARE YOU SERIOUS? that stunt on top gear was 100% CG. They did it for a laugh, since they discussed supercars being able to go upside down several times. As is this commercial. I'm not saying the car is not great, but the physics behind the stunt are next to impossible. Some company (Ascari I think) designed an engine that would work upside-down, but you needed to go about 200mph and nobody was stupid enough to try it out. So yeah. Shut up.
they did a same video for their truck series....
ya i feel that was a horrable one i need a labodamy after that one
@zildog They spent millions of euros ;) Mercedes-Benz is german btw.
Come on guys!!! The car is great but the commercial is not!!!
DO A BARREL ROLL!
I would've just drove off home in the car and leave them there. For the lolz.
The MASK Movie pleeeeaaaaassssseeeee!!!!!!
take me for a ride....
Commercial = Retarded
SLS Gullwing = ..... fucking awesome!!!
I've ridden in such a car in Sweden
above 366.63333 kmh, yes it woud be possibel.
@5440Borderline
nope, thats an SLS
@TopGearRuels because not everyone lives in Belfast :D
is this based on the ipad game?
@beyondthepack
Dude there's nothing ugly about this car at all.
The only ugly thing about it is the retarded barrel roll this moronic commercial was built around.
@slickrickbawss ahhh thanks for the clarification, ya i heard about that being possible, even though everyone tells me that this particular car weighs too much to actually do this
Wow, insane. Great commercial. I want SLS AMG one day, soo bad.
2:34 epic
have a sense of humor dude. yeah its absurd if you think about it, but the point of the commercial is really just to convince people of how awesome the SLS is supposed to be.