Taking Apart Two Mercedes Benzes E260 and E260L
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Just stumbled upon this new channel’s pilot video where they take two new Mercedes Benzes apart (an E260 and an E260L), strip both cars to to their bare structural frames and they even cut pieces off those two frames to make various measurements and run various tests.
Why two Benzes? Because they wanted to compare an imported E260 (from Germany) to a domestically assembled E260L (in China) — both new cars, same model/year, assembled in difference countries.
Most of the regulars here won’t be able to understand the audio or the subtitle. Still, I hope the motion pictures showing two Benzes so carefully and so thoroughly taken apart are worth your while scrubbing through the video. Enjoy!
Link to video(EDITED with correction to note that one car is an E260 and the other is an E260L.)
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@horace said in Taking Two Mercedes Benz E260Ls Apart:
What was the conclusion? Were they different in any important way?
One used local labor for $34 an hour and the other $6. Eventually they were all made in China and the German worker demand a $15/hour job at Walmart.
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@klaus said in Taking Two Mercedes Benz E260Ls Apart:
It is strange that they have chosen an E260L. From what I understand, the E260L is only available for the Chinese market (it's an extra long version), so if they can assemble E class in China, why would they make this model in Germany?
I made a mistake ... I rewatched parts of the video and verified that the "import" is an E260 (without the L), while the "domestic" is an E260L.
