- [Daniel] People don't know that this place exists.
There's only been one other person
in the world that's been allowed to come and film
in the place that I'm filming.
The most expensive car in the world.
I just have to touch it.
Here we go.
I touched it.
Welcome back to What's Inside.
Today we have a really really rare
and awesome video for you guys.
Right next to me is what most experts will say
is the most expensive car in the world.
This is a 300 SLR Uhlenhaut.
We are very grateful to be here today.
Our friends at Mercedes let us come.
Apparently they have 11 different vaults of cars
that are kind of hidden strategically
around different places in Germany.
Today we're gonna tour three of them
and see what's inside of the vaults.
Thank you to our friends at Mercedes
for letting me come out here.
A lot of like classic Ferrari's
are like 40 million, 50 million dollars.
This thing is basically double or triple that.
The falcon wing doors on a Tesla are not that unique.
This was happening way back in the day.
Look how this thing's opened.
Let's look inside of this car.
One of only two in the world that were ever made.
There's only two of them in the world.
One of them is in a museum then they have this one here.
Mercedes is never gonna sell it.
This is legit.
I touched it.
My shoes are so squeaky in here.
This was the first race car to be in the aluminum color.
And so now if you look at a lot of these race cars,
and a lot of the cars in Mercedes,
you see a lot of the silver that is on it,
and like the aluminum body.
This is our friend Dennis, he works for Mercedes.
And he's helping give us some insights behind-the-scenes
on like what these cars are and the history of them.
Like for example this one,
it's Michael Shoemaker's first car
that he drove with Mercedes
and he's a seven-time world champion.
- What's inside, let's have a look.
The wind tunnel for the fresh air.
- [Daniel] It goes through the door.
So basically this cools the engine, right?
You have all this wind that comes down through there.
- That's a real racing cockpit.
- [Daniel] Not quite as comfortable as you would think.
But as a race car driver it's not about comfort.
It's about winning, right?
Why is there one button that says "Problem"?
- (mumbles) They rushed down to the road and back
so that 1000 miles but they have to rush
through the normal traffic so there was no closed roads.
And this car scored the second place.
Driven by the Argentinian (mumbles).
- So every car in this vault has a story.
This was a transporter for the race cars.
This thing would go a max speed of 105 miles per hour.
You're driving your Mercedes.
You're feeling pretty good about yourself
and then all of the sudden this blue,
giant beast comes flying past ya.
This is an 80 year old car.
80 year old racing car.
The drive train is just right down
in between your legs as you're driving it.
One thing that I think is interesting
is that if you look at the cars back then,
look at the steering wheel.
You have a nice, leather steering wheel.
Here's a more recent car.
This is Louis Hamilton's car that he drove in 2017.
He was the runner up in the world championship with this.
But take a look at the steering wheel
and look how different it is nowadays.
This is more like you're playing
PlayStation or Xbox than driving a car,
compared to the other ones.
I mean, look at all the different options
on there that you're driving.
This car right here in 1994 won the Indy 500.
It was in first place.
They took one of the older engines
and used some different techniques
that were within the rules that made
it boost the turbo and gave the car
and extra 200 horsepower.
And so this car won pretty easily.
It was kind of like a one and done.
It won and they changed the rules
while they were having their celebration
and that was it.
Pretty cool this is the actual car.
I'm touching it, I touched it.
Sorry people at Mercedes for.
Hopefully I was supposed to touch that, but I did.
I touched the car.
And then up here we have basically
your advent calendar of F1 race cars.
(upbeat music)
This one broke the record, this car right here.
- 1936.
- [Daniel] 1936, so this is what it would've looked like.
1936, it's just like a silver bullet.
You're not gonna believe this, come here.
Slug bug yellow!
Right there!
- That's not a slug bug.
It looks like it but it's not.
So you got it wrong so I get to slug you twice.
- [Daniel] I don't know about that.
We have a game where we hit people when we see it.
But usually it's like a Volkswagen Bug or Beetle.
- Ferdinand Porsche.
So he invented the car at Mercedes-Benz.
And then he opened his own company
which was used at the Volkswagen Beetle.
- [Daniel] What, so this is before the Volkswagen Beetle.
- Very few were built, it's a prototype
and it was not a serious production car.
There were very few prototypes,
but the idea was invented with Mercedes-Benz.
We have the star again.
- [Daniel] That's really cool.
So I am right, now I get to hit you.
Let us know in the comments.
Who should be able to hit who?
Was I right in hitting Lincoln on hitting that car.
(mumbles)
Is Lincoln right or am I right?
This is the first automobile ever invented.
1886.
This car was called the Benz Patten motor car.
'Cause Karl Benz was the one that invented it.
This is how you would steer.
See the wheel turning there in the front?
Try not to break it.
It's been around for a lot of years though,
I think it's pretty strong.
Its crazy to think that before 150 years,
we didn't even have cars.
(soft rock music)
The speed of innovation, even back in the 1800's
is something to be marveled at.
We saw the car earlier that Karl Benz invented
that was the little three-wheel car
that you steer in the front.
15 years later, they took a horse carriage,
they put a motor in it, and they made this car.
But then after only two years of this being
the mode transportation, which I'm sure
this was so much better.
Two years later they come out with this one
that looks like a car.
It has thicker tires, thicker wheels.
The motor is in the front.
It has more room in the back and it looks like a car.
Even today you look at technology
and how much it changes from year to year.
One week in the internet world is really like a year
because things advance so quickly.
That's one thing that Mercedes has been doing
for many, many years.
What do they currently have?
What are the needs of the population?
And how can we take our engineers
and develop something that fits the needs.
(upbeat music)
This one was built in the 1930's
and the amount of money it cost to build this
is equivalent to today to owning a leer jet, basically.
There were less than 50 of these cars
made back in the day.
You could either buy this car or
you could buy a house in Berlin on
a lake with tons of land.
Like that's how much this thing cost.
So only the luxury, super elite would have this car.
(upbeat music)
As of right now, among the 11 facilities,
there's 1135 Mercedes-Benz cars in here.
I feel like this one looks kind of like Doc from Toy story.
- I think that one's in Mario Kart also.
- In the 1930's, people were interested
in the engine, how it works.
So you can have a look inside, what's inside the engine.
How does the engine work?
- This is the beginnings
of our YouTube channel right here.
Back in the day people were even curious what's inside.
Look at this.
Oh everything you can see they've
done cutaways on every part of the engine.
(upbeat music)
We cut open an engine, we cut it in half
but we used a saw blade and went straight through it.
It looked okay but not as cool as that looks like.
(mumbles)
(upbeat music)
This car behind me is super rare.
They found it in a barn in Australia in 2001.
And what I think is cool about Mercedes
is what happened is they got an email from the person
that found this and said hey would you guys like this car?
They didn't want to touch this car
because everything has been verified to be legitimate,
original on this car.
So none of this has been restored,
none of it was worked on.
It was parked in a barn for years and years and years.
And they think that something that
has value in it tells a story.
They don't do this for the money.
They don't keep these cars and go,
"Oh this is 50 million dollars" or,
"oh this is 100 million dollars."
They do it because they're passionate
about the history of Mercedes-Benz cars.
They're passionate about the technology
and where they are now in 2018,
and how everything going back all the way to 1886
has gotten them to where they are now.
The only time that they really think about price
of any of these cars we're walking past right now,
is when they have the insurance adjusters come
once a year and they go through and they have
to put a valuation on these cars
in case of some sort of damage.
Well we got this in the museum.
- It was used for the nation so everyone unites
for a special thing and you put a sticker on it.
And I think the (mumbles) hotel,
with the cow on top.
- They would drive this around the Outback
and they would try to raise donations for these children.
And every time somebody donated,
they would put their sticker on the car.
What you're looking at here is the only
Mercedes hearse in the entire collection of 1135 cars.
It was from Italy and they thought that was really unique
and it does look like something
straight out of Vatican City.
This is your 70's car right here.
This is classic.
Look at these rims down here, woo!
And then we've got, of course,
what interior is it going to have.
We've got the brown suede material.
A nice little fire extinguisher right here.
It smells kind of like a new car still from the 70's.
(slow music)
This car right here used to be
Arnold Schwarzenegger's car.
Lincoln, quiz time, who is Arnold Schwarzenegger?
Do you know who that is?
- No. - No, that's sad.
Matt, Lincoln doesn't know who Arnold Schwarzenegger is,
what do you think about that?
- C'mon man, Terminator?
- [Daniel] Terminator, he hasn't seen the Terminator.
- What else is he in, jingle all the way?
- [Daniel] Jingle all the way Lincoln, no?
- Do you know who Arnold Schwarzenegger is?
- Yes he was the governor of California.
Kids these days that are watching the video maybe you don't
know who Arnold Schwarzenegger is ,
well this is his car.
The Terminator.
He sold it to his neighbor, his neighbor called
Mercedes, "Hey do you guys wanna buy this car?".
Smart neighbor.
We're in a 1960's Mercedes and this is where
we're going to end our trip.
Mercedes, this was a crazy day.
Like there's so much I didn't even show you on camera.
Poor Lincoln comes all the way to Germany
and he has one of the worst colds he's ever had.
He doesn't even have a voice.
Can you whisper something to us?
What was your favorite moment of the cars?
- There was some cool cars here.
- There are some cool cars here.
So this is a small sampling of the history of cars
and the history of Mercedes-Benz.
It's been around since day one of automobiles.
Mercedes gave us this opportunity,
they did not pay us to say anything here or to do anything.
They paid for our flights out here
and let us have this experience so really, really cool.
Show them some love.
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If you haven't watched our S-Class video
where we cut open the seat, go check it out.
Thanks for watching.
- Bye.
- Goodbye says Lincoln.
Goodbye.
- [Dennis] What's inside, that's inside.