Thanks for the views everyone! Just uploaded more clips of James May from the same episode of Driven: ua-cam.com/video/oBoJkQEybww/v-deo.html ua-cam.com/video/LQHBfmCA6YE/v-deo.html
May's signature long haircut was once voted the worst in Britain. But then you watch an old clip like this, and you realize he picked the right look for himself.
To be fair, both James and Jeremy have publicly acknowledged that they have very dubious "hair styles" (while also taking the piss out of Hammond for being over-styled). In this clip he sports a typical 90's lads cut but more recently his hair (and clothes) is stuck in the 1970s.
@@Fanboy1222 I didn't say he looks bad. Just that he has always dressed way older than he is (I can even imagine him having dressed that was as a teenager! lol)
No, he dressed like people at that time did. Old people clothes are not a specific style. Old people clothes are young people clothes from a few decades ago, people just stop changing their style above a certain age.
I can hold a button on the steering wheel, wait for a beep & say a command IF I can remember it. Or I can just press a button. I always just press a button.
I just realized that this isn't how trams look like in all other cities but I just was so accustomed to it that I wouldnt have noticed, hadn't it been a video in English
@@tobyey9134 .... I live in Switzerland and regularly meet my friends in Zurich. So, I happen to know that every Swiss city has a different color of trams: Zurich is blue, Basel is green and Berne is red. As to the lake: it's not even the most spectacular lake in Switzerland. That prize has to go to the Klöntalersee!
I have the 2006 S430 base w220... 248k miles on her now... If the Energizer Bunny was a car... Just bought a 2006 S600 with 43k on the clock.. I love these big cruisers... And they're shockingly cheap and easy to repair and maintain.
@@k3kboi665 I just looked up the term incel, I think we live in a very sick sad world where everything is dicected & has a label on it. Yeah he looks cooler with long hair, I myself have long hair, don't disagree with you on that Padre.
That ABC suspension that today totals these cars, back then was cutting edge and even today still handles great, as long as its working properly. Its basically a Citroen Hydropneumatic but in steroids and with more german and less french.
The ABC can be a problem. I think it’s worth keeping if the car is in good enough shape. I have an 03 S430 with airmatic and there’s no excuse for not keeping it in order. It’s only an air pump, valve block and lines going to struts
@@omostim2385 Indeed. The biggest problem those have usually has to do with the system getting neglected, it developing a leak that usually leads to the pump failing.
@@MeDicen_Rocha Exactly. A neglected system could pretty much total out the car cost wise. But when it’s working it’s brilliant. Makes me wonder what’s going to happen to all of the current Mercedes vehicles with trick suspension
The previous S class was not the first one to be equipped with an AIRBAG - the car featured in this clip is a W220, so the previous one should have been the the W140. Prior to the W140 was the W126 which was first equipped with an airbag in 1981.
@@aboodmki3 i just realized, that my comment heavily depends on where you live. Where I live, huge cars were the absolute exception, until SUVs became a huge fashion about 7 years ago. My comment prob. Doesn't work for some US Americans f. E., them beeing used to pickup trucks etc
This is from a Channel 4 programme called Driven. It was a short lived rival to the BBC’s Top Gear. They are completely different shows made by two completely different organisations. The show ran from 1998 - 2002
Apparently the 1998 series of Driven aired for 7 episodes from 13th Oct to the 24 Nov 98. The 1999 series aired for 15 episodes (20/04/99-27/07/99). Yet, oddly, the 2000 series ran for 10 episodes. I wonder why they never made the same number of eps per series?.
@@AdamJDM1 The only thing experimental was seeing if the buyers wanted it. They were initially marketed as an option on the fleet trim of the normal production Impala, then available to regular consumers. In ‘74 it was alsomade available on Cadillac models, again as an option, but also with passenger airbag. All mass production cars. The W126 was available in 1981, and like the US cars in the previous decade it was available as an option.
@@AdamJDM1 Here you go straight from the Wikipedia’s mouth.... “The GM cars from the 1970s equipped with ACRS had a driver-side airbag, a driver-side knee restraint,.[34] The passenger-side airbag protected both front passengers,[34] and unlike most modern systems, integrated a knee and torso cushion while also having a dual-stage deployment dictated by force of the impact. The cars equipped with ACRS had lap belts for all seating positions, but lacked shoulder belts. Shoulder belts were already mandatory in the United States on closed cars without airbags for the driver and outer front passenger, but GM chose to market its airbags as a substitute for shoulder belts. Prices for this option on Cadillac models were US$225 in 1974, $300 in 1975, and $340 in 1976 (US$1,528 in 2019 dollars.”
@@AdamJDM1 Yep yep, keep refining and reframing your parameters until you become right. You said they were prototypes - they were not. You said only 1000, there was not. You said there were 10000 and somehow that defines why they weren’t available on a mass production car. Yeah, right right. Mercedes weren’t first, by almost a decade.
In a time when looks didn't matter to become a host of a television show. How in Earth can you make a review of 5 minutes of the best car Mercedes has to offer? Good thing we have in depth reviews on UA-cam
Daaaamn, this is old, look at their faces, lookin 30,i had this s class, it was a s 500 but with lpg, but we used to test distronic, and it was funny af, now they are cheap, im thinkin of Getting one... Good Work guys, we need this kind of show again
Remember when the Lexus is200 was bought by lawyers and dentists? Now they're 800 quid and every one I see is a 'drift car bro' you can tell by the shit wheels, eBay lowering kit and crappy wing on the back.
Thanks for the views everyone!
Just uploaded more clips of James May from the same episode of Driven:
ua-cam.com/video/oBoJkQEybww/v-deo.html
ua-cam.com/video/LQHBfmCA6YE/v-deo.html
And the music than. Was it Beethoven??
It all makes sense now: He is Doug's father!
I thought Jay Leno was Doug's father?
so he's lying to us about not having kids?
Lol dang I was like this was an early Doug video thumbnail..... then click 🤦🏽♂️ Captan Slow!!!
And klarkson the papa
I absolutely thought it was a young Doug as well. I’m sending this to someone to get YTP treatment 😂
May's signature long haircut was once voted the worst in Britain. But then you watch an old clip like this, and you realize he picked the right look for himself.
Are you kidding me? :P He looks waaaay better with this haircut! Though 22 years of age shaved off probably helps aswell^^
@@nr1pimme I disagree but beauty is in the eye of the beholder and all that. So neither of us are wrong or right.
To be fair, both James and Jeremy have publicly acknowledged that they have very dubious "hair styles" (while also taking the piss out of Hammond for being over-styled). In this clip he sports a typical 90's lads cut but more recently his hair (and clothes) is stuck in the 1970s.
Yeah like Doing Demuro
And his voice. I now can't imagine the voice without the hair.
In 1998 James May was 35....but he still dressed like he was in his 60's even then! :-D
I must utterly disagree he looks quite good
thats just britain
@@Fanboy1222 I didn't say he looks bad. Just that he has always dressed way older than he is (I can even imagine him having dressed that was as a teenager! lol)
No, he dressed like people at that time did. Old people clothes are not a specific style. Old people clothes are young people clothes from a few decades ago, people just stop changing their style above a certain age.
nullkomma 9 ya no, that sweater is gastly.
He looks like Doug DeMuro in the thumbnail
Lmao I thought it was doug
Same lol. Was expecting "THIIIIISSS is a 1998 Mercedes Benz S class".
@@cryo2156 he was born in 1998 :)
@@rtteettr5382 no he wasn't lmao
Clickbait.
Legendary person.. James May is very relaxing to listen too... James, Richard and Jeremy are such awesome presenters.
“this is an enormous car” 2020 mini is almost the size of that s class
Cars of 2020 is that of 1970s
i get your point but please tell me which mini is over 5 meters long
@@Patrick-tf1ri1976 cadillac sedan deville would beg to differ
bruh my mom would say a w203 C Class is a huge car. we europeans until the last few years were just build different.
A mini countryman is 4.5 meters which is Almost 5 meters
1:59
I see voice commands haven't changed in 22 years
Really sad tbh, imagine voice commands evolved like the smartphones for the same period.
I can hold a button on the steering wheel, wait for a beep & say a command IF I can remember it. Or I can just press a button. I always just press a button.
So sad, in my bmw f30 2016 voice is shit as well
I’m sorry I don’t know how to respond to that
The new "Linguatronic" in the MBUX in really, I mean really good.
The city is Zurich, Switzerland and the lake is the nearby Wägitalersee!
I just realized that this isn't how trams look like in all other cities but I just was so accustomed to it that I wouldnt have noticed, hadn't it been a video in English
@@tobyey9134 .... I live in Switzerland and regularly meet my friends in Zurich. So, I happen to know that every Swiss city has a different color of trams: Zurich is blue, Basel is green and Berne is red. As to the lake: it's not even the most spectacular lake in Switzerland. That prize has to go to the Klöntalersee!
Love my old w220 S class . Puts a smile on my face everytime I drive it .
Great cars
I liked how he showed all the quirks and features of the car
Clicked on it for James may, stayed for the car. The car that all modern cars base their tech on
Adaptive cruise control in 1998!!! Holy shit they are ahead of the game
I have the 2006 S430 base w220... 248k miles on her now... If the Energizer Bunny was a car... Just bought a 2006 S600 with 43k on the clock.. I love these big cruisers... And they're shockingly cheap and easy to repair and maintain.
Well, 22y later, this car still looks contemporary.
Yeah they aged great its crazy
20+ years later and that S class doesn't look outdated
@@arthurpownceby5115 but not outdated
It looks terrible
@@curtisjackson40 now they just look rusted and flat on the ground. Epic garbage
@@CL9k24a3and maintenance is way too expensive for this car
@@pb6198 couldn’t agree more😂 the worst S Class by far. The 7 series from this era was much more timeless
UA-cam: “You’ve been watching old Doug DeMuro videos, here’s an old James May video where he *looks* like Doug.”
Even back then they were calling him the Captain
He looks so weird without his long hair
That almost reminds everyone of a British father of Doug DeMuro in the 90s
Yeah. He almost looks human here!
I take it you meant "with"?
James is proof that you can look better in your 40's and 50's than in your 30's
nah
He has a pot belly and floppy grey hair and his face has aged badly, so how does he look better in 40/50's than 30's?
@@Future-Classic-Carsnow he looks like a boheme respectable old man now and before he looked just like an incell.
@@k3kboi665 I just looked up the term incel, I think we live in a very sick sad world where everything is dicected & has a label on it.
Yeah he looks cooler with long hair, I myself have long hair, don't disagree with you on that Padre.
His so young I felt like James came into the world at 45.
The pronunciation is lovely👍🏻
That ABC suspension that today totals these cars, back then was cutting edge and even today still handles great, as long as its working properly. Its basically a Citroen Hydropneumatic but in steroids and with more german and less french.
The ABC can be a problem. I think it’s worth keeping if the car is in good enough shape. I have an 03 S430 with airmatic and there’s no excuse for not keeping it in order. It’s only an air pump, valve block and lines going to struts
@@omostim2385 Indeed. The biggest problem those have usually has to do with the system getting neglected, it developing a leak that usually leads to the pump failing.
@@MeDicen_Rocha Exactly. A neglected system could pretty much total out the car cost wise. But when it’s working it’s brilliant. Makes me wonder what’s going to happen to all of the current Mercedes vehicles with trick suspension
What is trick suspension?
@@nassimnassim6019 All the modern air suspension systems that have "trick features" like predictive bump dampening and stuff like that
I thought he was doug demuro for a sec when i saw thumbnail
Same lol
me too LOL
Now we know how Doug is gonna look like when he is 50 something 😂
He is Doug’s dad
Who is dug
I've still got one , a W220. Drives like a dream, engine & gearbox still like new. Bit of a rust bucket though!
The previous S class was not the first one to be equipped with an AIRBAG - the car featured in this clip is a W220, so the previous one should have been the the W140. Prior to the W140 was the W126 which was first equipped with an airbag in 1981.
'this is an enormous car!' oh how the times have changed...
It is almost the same dimensions as a 2020 S-Class or 7 Series what have changed?! 😅
@@aboodmki3 the massive GLE/X7 next to it.
@@aboodmki3 i just realized, that my comment heavily depends on where you live. Where I live, huge cars were the absolute exception, until SUVs became a huge fashion about 7 years ago. My comment prob. Doesn't work for some US Americans f. E., them beeing used to pickup trucks etc
this car is large even by modern standards. it is five meters long.
@@guguigugu Yep, long it is, always longer than the parking pocket. But looking at it from the front, standing next to modern cars, it looks tiny
His voice did’t change
He looks like Doug DeMuro’s British cousin.
This is from a Channel 4 programme called Driven. It was a short lived rival to the BBC’s Top Gear. They are completely different shows made by two completely different organisations. The show ran from 1998 - 2002
This car now costs about $3,000 and is very great value for the money.
seeing James without his signature mop bristle hair is....frightening
This!.... is a 1998 Mercedes Benz S-Class. And it’s *chuckles* absolutely huge and has many quirks and features
Still one of the best looking s class
his voice hasn't changed that's for sure!
He was the captain...
The car has aged better than May's pullover
Lol
That SIEBEN SIEBEN SIEBEN had me in stitches
He went from mid 30s to mid 70s over night.
It's a British thing, they don't age like normies.
Apparently the 1998 series of Driven aired for 7 episodes from 13th Oct to the 24 Nov 98. The 1999 series aired for 15 episodes (20/04/99-27/07/99). Yet, oddly, the 2000 series ran for 10 episodes. I wonder why they never made the same number of eps per series?.
If you look at both presenters you would never guess James would be the one that has the better career
Fr tho 🤣
Also W pfp of Senjougahara 🔥🙏
THISSSSS IS THE OLDSCHOOL JAMES MAY and it looks like me.
They called james may the captain even back then
He looks like a roman with that hair
Thats a class 90's lads cut, very popular back then.
He kinda looks like the concept version of Vulpes Inculta
He was a STUD !
22 years later with a bottle of wine a day he looks the same
Lovley review on the s500.
I feel so old 😞
He sounded so shy when he recorded the voiceover...!
0:17
Guess what?
Bim
"Guess what... Families have small children"
You don't say
He has a point
"Bim! Guess what? Families have small children!"
that's kind of the point you clown
Here he is 3 years younger than me, now he looks 10 years older.
Smoking and alcohol will do that to ya.
Mike Brewer in the background. He ate a few burgers since then.
Hold out yer 'and 😂
Oh snap. All the heavy hitters were there.lol
@@SherwinR89 ooooold our yerrrrr andddd
I was just thinking who’s the gangsta that can’t hold his head straight
I didn't recognise him without his voice.
He managed not to mention the fate of an S class in a Parisian tunnel the year before.
Had one of these. It's sick
“Thisssss” - Doug
oh god
3:45 “previous S class was the first car with an airbag” nope the W126 already had them
And neither he nor you are correct. The first production car was the 1973 Chevrolet Impala.
@@AdamJDM1 The only thing experimental was seeing if the buyers wanted it. They were initially marketed as an option on the fleet trim of the normal production Impala, then available to regular consumers. In ‘74 it was alsomade available on Cadillac models, again as an option, but also with passenger airbag. All mass production cars.
The W126 was available in 1981, and like the US cars in the previous decade it was available as an option.
@@AdamJDM1 Here you go straight from the Wikipedia’s mouth....
“The GM cars from the 1970s equipped with ACRS had a driver-side airbag, a driver-side knee restraint,.[34] The passenger-side airbag protected both front passengers,[34] and unlike most modern systems, integrated a knee and torso cushion while also having a dual-stage deployment dictated by force of the impact. The cars equipped with ACRS had lap belts for all seating positions, but lacked shoulder belts. Shoulder belts were already mandatory in the United States on closed cars without airbags for the driver and outer front passenger, but GM chose to market its airbags as a substitute for shoulder belts. Prices for this option on Cadillac models were US$225 in 1974, $300 in 1975, and $340 in 1976 (US$1,528 in 2019 dollars.”
@@AdamJDM1 Yep yep, keep refining and reframing your parameters until you become right.
You said they were prototypes - they were not. You said only 1000, there was not. You said there were 10000 and somehow that defines why they weren’t available on a mass production car. Yeah, right right. Mercedes weren’t first, by almost a decade.
Now introducing 'James Stephen Fry May'
Why this video popped up in my suggestion?and i happened to watch this in 2021..
Can we put aside his similarities with Doug to admire the true beauty of the W220?
He looked so much better then
I'm not a failed bus driver, but I do drive a Volvo estate.
So he went from Captain of Industry to Captain Slow
In a time when looks didn't matter to become a host of a television show.
How in Earth can you make a review of 5 minutes of the best car Mercedes has to offer?
Good thing we have in depth reviews on UA-cam
Obligatory 'hands in pockets' except when you are driving naturally.
RE the actual car - great product; way ahead of its time
What a lad!
Oh god even abck then he looked old.
He is the product of a crazy science experiment where Doug and Clarkson get in a timemachine and have behbehs.
Why do 90s videos look like a painting?
The W220 came out in the states in 2000. I wonder if they came out in 98 in Germany? The W140 went all the way up until 99.
If ever there was an advert not to drink loads of wine for 25 years! 😅
Holy moly he looks young
If you know Shmee, look at the thumbnail and think again. Is it just me?
the most important and correct thing in this car is the steering wheel on the only right side
Good old times
Can you believe it, he had a haircut and actually looks quite respectable!
That was awesome to watch!
...spoken from a german...
Last and final years of the golden age of customers by Mercedes.
22 years ago James May looked normal. Like a nice young professional
I adore my W220 S55!
He's a baby who's mom dressed him like an old man.
James never cut his hair ever !! It just grew and grew !
Brown really is his colour
Daaaamn, this is old, look at their faces, lookin 30,i had this s class, it was a s 500 but with lpg, but we used to test distronic, and it was funny af, now they are cheap, im thinkin of Getting one... Good Work guys, we need this kind of show again
I love my S Class
Love how this car was the car of world leaders in the 90's and now the only people I see driving it are crack dealers.
Yeah exactly!😆
Same thing.
Remember when the Lexus is200 was bought by lawyers and dentists? Now they're 800 quid and every one I see is a 'drift car bro' you can tell by the shit wheels, eBay lowering kit and crappy wing on the back.
@@mattyg267 tis a good value car
No money in crack!!! Now!
What a guy
Who’s James’a co presenter please. Wanna see how years caught up Mays mate
Rare footage from the last day James had a haircut
The city is so beautiful. Is this filmed in Germany?
It's Zürich, switzerland
Marc Hasler what a beautiful country thanks Marc
The 140 wasn’t the first car with an airbag
The shocking march of time...... May is a young man here.
I'm not the only one who clicked this vid to leave the comment that the thumbnail of young James looks like Doug DeMuro.
"best car...pause...in the world"
Legend!
The word is he once smoked a cigar with chopper read and punted a bowling with his grandmas slippers on
@4:15 i received a fax in my manual car going 100. it was much more exciting
Thanks to Tenet, it all makes sense now
Doug DeMuro = inverted James May
Man Benz was 30 years ahead of every other car around
Nah, bmw was one step ahead of Mercedes with the designs and plus the V12 situation