Why Albanians Only Drive Mercedes-Benz 

Exactly. My girlfriend just bought a Mercedes and guess what, parts galore if there are any issues!

It’s more environmentally friendly than using all these resources to make batteries for electric cars, then using probably coal to charge them with electricity and then not knowing what to do with all the waste these batteries are gonna become. And replacing those costs almost as much as a new EV so who’ll bother doing that.

easier to steal too

Yeah import stolen cars ahahahah and then wonder why there is many spare parts

Now imagine people instead of cars. How easy would life be!

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Hahaha see that, no Fs given 😂

He opened the garage doors like nothing was there 😂

You clearly hear he hit the metal stop at the bottom, like on the other side, where you even can see it. No mercedes was harmed 😉

Peoples forgot mercedes is a luxury car brand thats why its maintance cost was high ..theory is if you buy a high colity premium brand it must need a premium maintance ....

You really think they maintain them as they should?)

Thats the thing you see one "documentary" and then go with that belief...

@@nesune4401 I saw one where the police used stolen cars, other than that it's been on the news many times. So no, that's NOT the thing.

The same thing used to happen in 90's South America between Brazil and Paraguay, but with any type of popular cars of this time. They would steal them in Brazil and get them registered in Paraguay, since it was a simple and easy process with low research about the vehicle. After that, they'd be sold and driven like nothing had happened.

😂😂

@@DrHumorous Albania isn't Eastern Europe. Southern Europe, see on the map.

@@onucaboza5719 Well, the S-Class then

No it's not

Rubbish! It is a contraction of the German for fuel-injected

And easy to steal?

@@smrkc You seem to know them cars well..

@@smrkc Hahahahahahaha 😄😄😄

Convenience. Great comment. Loved it!

So you started stealing them from hard working Europeans?

I saw and felt it too

always good to feel a bit extra

Check out the Top Gear episode, where they went to Albania and noticed the same thing about all the older Mercedes on the roads.

in africa there are lot´s of mercedes running with 50 years old or more, the w114 to the w124

You are right. Toyota and Lexus dominates Nigeria.

Mercedes-Benz is for the real money bags- or enthusiasts- in Nigeria

In Usbekistan 90% of the cars are Chevrolet

In some small cities 99% is Mercedes’ of auto, driven by grandpa and grandma old ladies and man their child are in west old people drive in Albania all Mercedes’ even very very rare models !

What is this preference of Deutsche Welle for electric car haters?

Soulless how?

@@persona8991 maybe because those electric/hybrid cars are only made to comply with new regulations. for example the new AMG C63 will be a 2.0 L hybrid, when the old one was a 6.3L V8. if that's not soulless, what do you call it?

@@sinisklemmo567 I don't hate electric cars, but I hate the fact that all manufacturers are now forced to build only such cars.

Their crime... The word you left out was their crime. Their culture is crime. All of it. Thats why they love Mercedes. Because thats where all the stolen Mercedeses all over Europe end up. In Albania.

Lies again? Director Face

Would you like them as neighbours? Didn’t think so.

@@roddymcniven8734 I don't think I would like you as a neighbour

@@markscarisbrick1534 no, you wouldn’t.

As a W124 fan , what do you think about E34 ?

@@matthew1562 im a different w124 fan and owner. Just before i got my w124 i started looking at e34 cause it had a better supply at the time. I really like the e34 but it just aint an old benz. There just is something about w/s124, w201 and c126 for example. Old bmw cars are really cool but an old benz always wins.

@@witekki I agree

@@witekki i see i myself am a little bmw fan , bot o boy , those old mercs are something different , especially the C126 , this thing is just magnificent. I was asking bout E34 from curiousity , im planning on buying one myself but some time ago i was thinking about W124 ( the 250D variant to be exact )

same haha

The beef runs deep!!

Ahhahahahahahahahahahaa

Tipical low iq mentality that keeps you poor.

Gods i love europeans

Wonder where at in OH ? I think I know someone that fits exactly what you described,lol

Yeah here in Swizzy all these leased German cars.🤣

When did we say this bro! I'm 36 never heard it 🤣 what a joke some people are

Damnn thats sooo cool congrats hope i can make it soon! Ill finish school in 1 month after that ill start university so i still have along way

i own an r129 coming from an x308 its not much of a leep; just much much more reliable.

How many tons of hashis you sell per year?

Opel 💀

What about Audi?

That's awesome

@@joshuacoyle6584 opel 👍

You guys prefer Opel? Do you know who makes them nowadays?

Also new Mercedes cars are expensive and Albanian incomes are low meaning few can afford them

Because they were primitive cars

@@anotheryoutubeaccount5259 they were not, for their times that was amazing.

Indeed. Quality in Mercedes and BMW also, declined

@@Joey856721 That was 20-30 years ago

Mercedes should give them a prize for not buying new models and instead recycling 30 year old cars? I don't think so...

@@iTheGeo 😂😂😂

Albania is easily Mercedes home base

@@anaskhoiri3653 *Second-hand Mercedes home base.

@@iTheGeo These folks provide value to the Mercedes brand, because they perpetuate the idea of Mercedes building high quality vehicles, which they no longer do. There was a time when Mercedes meant something more than mere wealth, it meant dependability. Mercedes made cars for people who got to where they are through hard work and the honoring of commitments, and they where a reflection of that, which is why old Mercedes are still beloved by the common folk which are now able to afford them. In fact, if you're about to spend €20 000 on a brand new Peugeot, chances are you'd be better off paying less for a 30 year old Mercedes 190. IMO Mercedes *should* get in touch with these people and find out *why* Mercedes cars are so beloved in not so well-off places of the world, like Albania, Portugal or the North of Africa... Maybe that way they can become as great as they once where.

As an albanian i can say that you are right mate 🇦🇱✌🏼

Of course there are exceptions, like in every country.But yes,a big majority of Albanians are joyful ,funny and with a great sense of humour.

Thank you my friend 👍🤝

visited for 2 weeks a few weeks back as well, has to be one of my favorite countries i have visited!

@@edgay I’m happy to hear that, you definitely come back and visit.

Thanks you , you should taste next time the amazing Albanian wine of local farmers is an hidden paradise of alcohol and taste 🎉

Do you make happy holidays 🚬🚬🚬🚬🚬🚬🚬🚬🚬🚬🚬.

🇦🇱🇽🇰🤝🇭🇷

Croatia brothers always great persons 👋🏻🙏🏻

Pozdrav iz Kosova!

@@dewoitine nadajmo se da opet srbi nece napraviti sranje na Kosovu....valjda je i njima dojadilo stalno gubit ratove. Samo neka se oni drze rusa...al u europu i civilizirani svijet nece uci nikada!

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lol right. -3hp

he was probably thinking "this is new model, this guy has money to repair it lol"

thats albania for you, right there 🤣

i had to rewatch it twice

Yes I agree

These are easy cars to maintain. You don't need to go to Albania. I am a mechanic and they are relatively easy and the parts are abundant as Mercedes never stops making parts for their cars. I am sure you can find a good indy shop to maintain it if you don't want to maintain it yourself. There isn't anything unique about w124s like a McLaren F1 or something... just letting you know... the Mercedes Source guy on youtube can probably teach you a lot of things you need to know for maintaining and repairing your w124 or any other Mercedes you might plan to buy in the future as the w123 and w126 are just as good as the w124 but in different ways.

I live in Spain, 30 min from where i live there's a place specialized in Benz's i wonder if they repair old ones

If you find the right trusted person you could ship it here, fix it and get it back. There’s plenty of places here i know that could do an awesome job on it.

@@pidhsome as I think about that, it’s really tempting. I need to research shipping cost. Or, make a visit to Albania for some inspiration.

Armenians especially have some obsession with Mercedes not gonna lie

But more BMW in Georgia

@@Efreet17 Every persian guy prefers white BMWs (according to Family Guy).

In Georgia people prefer BMW in Armenia its Mercedes

In Kazakhstan it’s all Toyota Camry haha

Great idea to stop producing them, Haha!!

Modern Mercedes designs are bad, and will certainly age much faster than W124

@@cytrynowy_melon6604 and the w124 is the most fragile of all the older mercedes starting in early 60´s (the oldest seen on the road) but i have the coupé i think it´s C124 with the 3.0L 24 valves in-line engine like in the SL´s it´s a great car and when in it´s last year of production with the 250D engine it was considered the best car in the world made by an independent study ,because of the room, safety , power and not much plastic with a calculated life of 20 years without any major problem but i know cars that are already more than 30 years old this refering to the w124 and are riding perfect .Two years ago i even bought from an old man a 200D for 500€ ,only for fun

No, that's bullshit. You dont see because balkan peoples are obsessed with old premium cars and back then only small cars had little engines.

Mercedes the best or nothing

@@lido211 they do a lot of nothing it seems...

@@aaaabababa I don’t get it

The 1.4l Toyota Yaris I have holds up pretty well ... as in, it's 10 years old well And I live in the Alps

10 months later and now lin is not a small village anymore it is found by scientist as 8500 years old . i was scrolling through comments and saw your reply what a coincidence

@watchinstuf Lin is beautiful

perfect like count

@@indiansmokar almost 😃

We agree!

I’m surprised you can write in English being from Greece shouldn’t you be writing in German 😂😂

Cough cough reliability

SBC System leaved the chat

I'll stay with hydronumatic , thank you

Indonesia also has the biggest w124 club

@@lr918 There's no manufacturer without problems, if i put here what kind of problems and how many i had with other manufactures....for me, my W211 is very good and the most reliable car from many many cars which i used to own. Yes, it's not perfect but still from far is the best one and i love it.

But A169 has dreadful issues with rust and is expensive to run/fix. Basically any competitor of A169 from that time is much better.

@@Jehowy666 I don't think rust is an issue there and when there is enough of they they're cheap as shit to run/fix. If you buy the CVT they don't break either.

they show what they don't have soo..the problematic part is something different for them

@@SB-rg2it Oh so you mean that there are no problematic parts in their cities and in their countries? Get out. So many homeless people lining the streets and the sidewalks in west. You dont see homeless people in albanian streets

The Europeans that are part of a tv channels such as this guy yes they done that for a very long time and keep bringing up communist regime in a way always looking down on the developing European countries. Independent RU-vidrs is a different story these young men and women go everywhere and show the best bits and has really helped tourism.

@@GodisMyNo1 and all the highest suicide rates of the world are westerns they claim they dont have but their are worst...

Because they hate us, they always did!

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Very cool!

Dig a little deeper, high% of those cars are stolen and taken there. Not so pleasant.

@@shotgun88deadlift Blah Blah Blah Blah.

@@shotgun88deadlift Why do you steal cars and bring them to Albania?

@@shotgun88deadlift It's kinda very hard or impossible to travel from a European country to Albania with a stolen car since Albania is not even in Schengen zone. But I understand Serbian and Greek Propaganda keeps going.

@@albanian9565 and what would Schengen have to do with smuggling cars anywhere? Yes, many cars in all of ex communist countries are stolen. Much higher percentage then in the West. Whether you like it or not, it is statistics, not propaganda.

the w123 was amazing and also really popular in germany

Ciao Napule 👋

Go for it!

witam from Albania to Poland!🤝

EU is a failure and any country thats smart should never join or should bailout now.

you better do it sooner than later...prices of nice examples are going up already

190E Divad

@@stojo33 my gad.....

You've already probably missed your opportunity. Sorry guy.

190 is worst Merc of older ones. New A class

Thanks

In Azerbaijan its the same. we might have ladas more but Mercedes is the most popular at the same time

Mercedes is not the high quality brand it used to be. Old ones, yes, but not the new models. The only high quality car manufacturers left are Japanese ones.

@@fufu1405 With time passing MERCEDES Benz decide to build some cars with more optional costo for people ho can't afford to buy the expensive ones like g class,s class and cls.The thing they did with cheap ones is cutting the interior costo and a bit build quality.Ef they decided to lower the build quality even more this would ashamed the besnic costumers. And before bying a Mercedes Benz or land rover make sure it's not built in Turkey,because the quality is lower than the Soviet union cars😭.

And also there is nothing else to buy lol

@@fufu1405 only Japanese engines. Everything else is a joke if it comes to quality.

The video is not very accurate. Yes, Albanians loved Mercedes and on Albania roads there were mostly Mercedes Benz but...In 2002, not in 2022. Have been several times in Albania, first time in 2015, trust me, I have seen the percentage of Mercedes Benz decreasing by year. Now in Albania you can spot tons of cars of every brand, you can spot French cars, Korean cars, Japanese cars...and tons of german cars including Volkswagen, Audi, and Bmw. The only real thing is that albanians love and prefere german cars, but in Albania you can spot every brand, Mercedes is no more the most spread brand. It is not correct to describe Albania as a Mercedes country. It was a Mercedes country, now is like every other country, you can spot every brand.

@@massifelix Yeah but the DMV guy literally said they are 30% of the cars. on the road... that's a lot.

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Love to “za dom spremni”

Albanians are not friendly or open at all. And everything is expensive!

Id love to visit.I love all east european countries

Thanks for watching Rob! Lots more content every Wednesday and Saturday

@@DWREV This is a terrible portrayal of Albania as too often is shown as poor, rugged, disorganized and lawless. The producers go to remote areas and older / poor streets of cities which are minimal compared to the rest of the city. 80% of the city is clean and newly renovated built. They specifically go and record the few bad poor parts and create a false portrayal of Albania. This obsession to portray Albania as poor must stop. Viewers watching this, I can inform you with full confidence that Albania is nothing like being portrayed here but quite opposite of this. Most of the major cities and the capital have been renovated and growing with continuous luxury development. Albania is middle income country with high boom in development and is far from poor. This portrayal can be made anywhere in the US or Western Europe if you go video the ghettos and bad areas or remote country towns .. even the wealthiest country can be displayed as poor. DW news is fake . Stop making false negative documentaries about Albania! The Albanian government should launch a defamation case against the media outlet ! 🛑

@@mesati lol Sensational Art very sensational in the comments. Take it easy. Everything is fine lol; just enjoy the documentary.

@@arberia8951 You enjoy watching that ? Lol I only skipped through it. There’s nothing right shown in that documentary. I don’t live in Albania .. my family moved abroad in the 90s when I was little. What bothers me is how people like you and that government there do not care about your image abroad. All the documentaries and news about Albania is 100% is portrayed as poor , rugged , criminal etc. It is nothing like being shown here .. there’s so much luxury development there last 20 years and beautiful youth. They always video the worst streets , old people crumbling roads , shots of garbage bins and garbage land fills. The government should keep an eye on these journalists from doing this type of defamation journalism. In Italy, France , Greece Spain and many other tourism countries .. the tourism government agencies block journalists from taping this kinds of things. Albania just welcomes it and people like you seem ok with it🤦🏻‍♂️

@@arberia8951 You maybe young and blind in life but I am citizen in a western country but of Albanian origin and believe me people do not know much about Albania here. The only rare time they watch and hear is documentaries like these and it convinced them to never want to go there as a tourist. It also gives them a bad image of the people .. that Albanian people are “uncivilized and lower class of humans”. If you’re Albanian and not offended by that.. don’t even call yourself Albanian. ✌️

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This covers the history, and the historical obsession with Mercedes. Maybe they could do a Part 2 where they visit the modern Mercedes model enthusiasts

@@realtalk6195 it's totall bullshit, we can't be represented by some drunk guys and the worst models you can find in the town, for us this video is a shame

@@SpeedhuntersAl I mean it is true most Albanians have a Mercedes

@@SpeedhuntersAl It's harder to steal the new Mercedes so that is why there are less?

@@SpeedhuntersAl so what colour is your Bugatti AMG spec

You stole that from the transporter movie. Jason Statham says that 😂😅

Came too far to find this. Finally, someone who gets it.

Yeah, I was about to say maybe check those mercs vin numbers

They save the weight by scratching off the vin. Its something that must be done. Lol

All stolen from Greece or Italy!

I can confirm that, maybe even more than 80%...