Other reviewers would spend the whole review talking about the screen and 0-60 time. Throttle house don’t even mention those 👏🏽👏🏽💯

All I could look at the entire video was the uneven gap in that back interior panel.

​@@elimcfly350oh my god, can't unsee it now

Mercedes build quality is a joke and had been for many years

Of course, they are bmw fanboys, they said that before.

The fact that its called master race is hilarious

Fits nicely with Jeremy Clarkson's comments about sat nav only showing directions to Poland.

That was gold 😂

You must be Jewish...

Mercedes really are proud of their heritage 😂

Good choice

Same. Plus it has better consumption

The Corolla convertible is nice. And as a bonus, slightly better mileage in the city.

poor people problems, thank god im not that!! thank you hedge fund!!

I would rather own the previous gen... you don't need all wheel drive it's over 400 lb heavier I miss my 2018

You can only really afford to do that once you've established yourself.

I guess that is why they usually get the cars from dealers and not from manufacturers...

A lot of their reviews, especially for performance or luxury cars, use dealership or subscriber vehicles. It's a more frequent observation with TH than with any of the other car reviewers I watch where they ask their fanbase on social media if there's anyone with a cool car willing to have it reviewed. The pro of this is they can be as critical as they want to be for the car they review. This also allows them to do more with the cars they're given (track tests, old vs new, drag races). The main con is they don't get invited by manufacturers themselves for early access reviews and whatnot as often as other reviewers do. This isn't to say they don't ever get invited to press events. They do, and those videos are very obviously very different to reviews like this one where they drive a car ~2 years after release and give an honest critique of it, or reviews where they drive a subscriber's or have a dealership's car.

If you mean the Panel Gap, this is a Press Car. Any Car Journalist will tell you that the Cars they get every now and then from any Brand have either Issues or some lower Quality than the Production Cars

My main concern was the poor quality of the paint on the body. Nobody talks about it, but I, as a painter, pay attention to it.@@chartreux1532

And the shody build quality.

Yep... Fair to say Merc build quality ain't what it used to be. That would drive me up the God damned wall if it were mine. I used to build road train trailers for a living (I'm in Australia) and that level of finish would be unacceptable for a semi trailer, let alone a luxury car. Not even close to good enough.

Absolutely nothing wrong with the paint

​@@Solstarewhy are you d riding for Mercedes

@@SolstareTrue, it's just textured for style

Once you see it.. you cant think in nothing else...

i bet it wasn't crook the moment it came out of assembly line

@@qpwoeiruty108 No orange peel either?

I cant unsee it thank you

Yeah Merc build quality sure ain't what it used to be. That type of thing would drive me up the God damned wall.

It looks like you could just hit it back in place. Someone may have leaned on it or tried to put a camera 📷 on it. Who knows.

@@Tahvyy id take it back to the dealership and make them fix it

@@Tahvyy Yeah and the orange peel in the paint will buff out... Once you buff ALL the paint off and apply it properly.

tesla level panel gap

I was about to say that. Every time I see that panel gap I think how such a thing could cost *breath* 190,000 USD!! And it is not even subtle. How did thing pass QC and dealer inspection.

@@pan4632 Honestly, I've never seen a Tesla or really any new cars with interior panel gaps like this, this is on a whole other level.

they took a serious nose dive with that one.

I think that might be camera distortion tbh, very wide angle

Problem with that car is I already have a sports car, so having that on top isn't practical. If they did an LS F with that motor and that gorgeous interior I'd buy the shit out of it. But just wish they had a more practical version. IS500 just isn't quite the item that those are.

I daily an IS500 and these things need more attention.

Shhh, they'll accumulate value, and then I won't be able to get a used one.

@@TheBucketOfTruth They did that already. It's called the GS-F.

@@Unicornpirate It's ugly and it's not as nice inside as an LC500 at all. And it's not an LS.

absolute joke of a quality in a car this price. not to mention the orange peel in the paint

As an owner of a 1998 SL500, I can confirm.

Same here 2006 SL65 here and no flex and I also have master race mode. It’s called turn off traction ESP, put her in sport mode, ABC to sport, renntech tune, and drag radials,

Our former 2010 C350 felt super solid, it’s a shame Mercedes quality is what it is now, I was recently driving a 2019 E53 AMG and was appalled at how cheap the inside felt.

@@winstonlindley1819 I want the older SL like yours, any issues with yours???

ahhhhhhh I get it now. Mercedes...come on...lol

The SL is still a legend , has been for the past 70 years no matter what you think about it now !

Great point. Even optioned out with everything the M8 Competition convertible is still cheaper than the base price of SL63

I bet it rides like ass too. Probably worse than this one.

Because it’s not as nice

Well, the main theme of this review i think, is that the LC500 undercuts everything in its class including bmw

​@@anordinarytree4425Looks shitty tho

they look "so toyota" though

@@edombre4637That's the kind of thing people say when they really have to hate on things out of thin air. The LC500C doesn't look like a rav4, in case you don't have eyes.

​@@edombre4637 It looks 'toyota' is hardly a slight when it's considered one of the most beautiful cars on the road.

Unacceptable. Send it back.

For the money the AMG GT honestly seems like a much better value, but i havent driven either so i cant really say for sure

r231 was a better car , and thats surprising@@Mandingy24

This is one channel that I know you won't hear anything positive about Mercedes..sl63 is a better car than a porsche the sound adds to the fun

@@Mandingy24 Can't really daily drive a pre-gen GT compared to SL

I'll say it again the last good SL was the R129, the last good sports coupe was the GT Black series.

It's not just MB nobody really wants expensive luxury roadsters any more , everybody (like the US) just wants stupid big luxury SUV's now and these cars aren't sought after like they were in the past !

Hahahaha james is jewish thats why they didnt let him be a master race

They purposely paint it like that to protect the paint from rock chip@

They should paint it not like trash and then you just ppf it. It looks awful

@@nastystew6942 uhhh nope.

And torque. And let's get a chart that shows power under the curve. Oh that might be too much for consumers. 😅

You mean power to weight ratio?

Thing is, the cars are still so fast that the horsepower-to-weight ratio becomes insignificant.

@@krane15umm its literally physics. there is no getting around it, weather a car is subjectively fast to some people or not.

Nah they should do an R129 as that's the previous soft top. It would be a very eye-opening review though. A then vs now that would show how little our money is worth.

I have the 'old' SL R231 SL400, and most reliable car, and solid after all these years... longest I've owned a single car; terrified at the thought of trading it.

they've been north of 1700kg for a looong time.

That was the joke genius, good job for explaining the obvious

That period started in the early 2000's.

@@veritas6466 eh not quite personally around 2010 and a bit after was also great. I own a e class from that generation that's treated me amazingly. I would say after that Iv noticed the biggest fall off

@@callofdestiny5671 The 2010 E350 had six recalls. The following laundry list comes straight from consumer reports: Owners report problems with: Steering And Suspension- Shocks or struts, ball joints, tie rods, wheel bearings, alignment, steering linkage (includes rack and pinion), power steering (pumps and hoses, leaks), wheel balance, springs or torsion bars, bushings, electronic or air suspension. Other steering/suspension problem- "Rear subframe rusted and broke. Replaced subframe with used subframe because new ones were not available from manufacturer. Manufacturer has not acknowledged problem, which appears to be general for E and C class vehicles from 2010 and the late teens." Climate System AC compressor, blower (fan) motor, condenser, evaporator, heater system, automatic climate system, electrical failure, refrigerant leakage. In-car Electronics Infotainment system (audio, GPS, phone), rear entertainment system, backup or other camera/sensors, head-up display. Hardware replacement "GPS navigation continuously misdirects. Installed updated discs but problem persisted. No longer use it because of unreliability."

This has been the MB cycle for several decades now. 80s-90s some of the best quality $ could buy. 00-10ish complete garbage followed by 10-late teens uptick. Now we’re back to garbage again

Their “Premium Strategy” is not right

still not as bad as other amg's tho

Definitely did

AMG was never good

mercedes in general fell off, they're still good cars but overpriced compared to competition now. they used to be the best made cars in the world...not so much anymore

It’s like Toyota slapping TRD on every single thing and then having to replace it with GR because they watered it down too much

Simple. it's a C300 with two doors