- Hey do you want to come to southern France
and play in the mud, climb up hills in a cool truck?
Yeah, I guess so.
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We're in Perpignan, France.
I'm with my friend Zach of Jerry Rig Everything,
We're about to be given the new Mercedes G-Class.
It's something that nobody in the world has seen yet,
but you guys get to see it now.
Starting down here at the airport
and we're going to go all the way around
and end up in a castle in like an hour and 20 minutes
and then from there we get to go
and make some other loops in this car.
We're going to bring you guys along.
Get ready for the ride, literally.
This is going to be an adventure.
This is our car, this is it dude, this is dope.
- [Zach] That's so sweet.
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- Look at the size of this screen.
Look at this carbon fiber,
it looks like it's stitched or something.
What are we doing here?
We've got these dudes standing in front of us
that are like "start your engines".
This really does feel like the amazing race.
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So one thing about France and Europe in general is that
the cities are so old they weren't designed
when cars were around, and so all the roads
are super, super narrow, and you'll see this in Ireland,
you'll see this in Scotland, Paris, everywhere.
There's barely enough room for two cars.
Alright Zach, let's hear the power of this car.
(engine revs)
Whoa, that's so great.
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- [GPS] You have reached your destination.
- Made it to our first stop, let me set the stage,
and tell you what's happening right now.
We're at a castle, at a chateau, in the mountains,
that is a giant vineyard and winery.
And Mercedes is so cool, that when they launch a new car,
which right now it's the G-Class,
they set up an off-road course,
and they're going to let us test them.
So there's going to be three tests today.
The first test is going to be the G 63,
which is more of your on road, luxury G-Class.
So yes it can go off-road,
but it's really meant for dirt roads.
So we're supposedly going to go very fast
on some dirt roads.
The second one we're going to do is the G 500,
and that is really for off-road testing.
The third one we're going to do
is they have the classic G-Classes here.
So the old school ones,
and test them out off-road and see how it goes.
Let's start off with the fast and furious one first
if we're going with the 63, the AMG.
This is going to be fun.
So we are now in the A 63,
and Zach is going to be our driver.
We have an instructor, Alfred, who's going to help.
How fast should he be going do you think?
What's a good kilometer an hour?
- [Alfred] That's okay, that's okay.
- [Dan] Right here?
- [Alfred] Yeah.
- [Dan} Okay.
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That is so cool, I want a turn.
I want to do it, I wanna go on the ride.
I feel like we're at Disneyland or something.
So we're going to do a thing called launch mode,
we're on dirt.
We put it in S+, so Sport+.
I put my left foot on the brake,
I pull back on both of the paddles,
then I give it gas, let it rev up a bit,
and then I just let off the brake.
Oop, ahh, I'm in reverse.
That's not how you do it.
Let's redo that.
I put my foot on the brake, pull back on the paddles,
give it some gas, let go.
(upbeat music)
♪ Save your tear drops ♪
♪ Glue it back together ♪
♪ Make it brand new ♪
We're on our last go with the G 63,
this track is really cool.
When we first were driving, we were driving like a grandma,
and now I can confirm that we are getting close to
rally car driver mode, which usually means
this should probably be the last time we should go around
because we're about to break something.
Now it's our turn to go on the G 500,
which is more of the hardcore off-terrain vehicle.
We're going to really test this thing out.
This is fun, we're gonna do this, this is crazy.
Alright let's go have fun.
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Zach, you just got a wheel off the ground.
- [Zach} You bet I Did.
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- [Dan] Did you get a little nervous?
- No, I'm fine.
- Yeah right.
(laughing)
I'm literally driving up a mountain right now.
Like right up, you want me to go up here?
- [Alfred] Yeah, right here.
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- Up that steep part we were 60% incline.
60%, this is crazy.
This is a car that's around 150,000 US dollars,
around there, and you're taking it up these cliffs
and it's no problem at all.
In a lot of ways it is made for this.
I live in Utah where we have Moab and we have Slick Rock,
and this would actually work really, really well for that.
So Zach right now is out flying the drone in this wind,
getting some shots, he's missing all of this,
so give a thumbs up to Zach.
Give a thumbs up in the comments.
If you haven't subscribed to his channel,
go watch his video with more of an
in depth review of these cars from his tech perspective.
Good job, Zach.
Right now I'm being held by my seatbelt,
because we're on a 58% angle decline, 58%.
Have you ever been driving and it's like
nine percent, trucks be careful with your brakes?
This is really, really steep,
honestly it's pulling on me.
And he just said to try to go in reverse.
It's totally working, are you kidding me?
Okay, just went reverse on a 60% decline.
This is blowing my mind.
Let's go down that one more time, because we can.
- We we're just at 23, at an angle, like a tipping angle,
and the maximum that the G-Class can do is 35.
That's pretty incredible.
- [Dan] Then what happens Zach?
- Then you tip, you roll your
quarter million dollar machine.
- [Dan] We gonna test that one today?
- I mean, I'm down, you down?
(laughing)
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Made it.
- Oh man, it's looking good out here now.
Riding in the mud was a blast today.
Seeing all these G-Class cars that are amazing was fun.
Now, we're going to leave these beautiful cars,
actually I think we get to take one with us,
but we're going to drive to a castle
that's an hour away from here.
Maybe it's a hotel?
We're staying in a hotel, it's not like a castle right?
Perfect, we're staying in a hotel that's a castle.
That's even better.
Zach, did you have fun today?
- I had a lot of fun.
- [Dan] Favorite moment?
- Off-roading, probably the water,
the water was pretty sweet.
Just knowing that the water was deeper than the doors were
just blew my mind that the whole thing was water tight.
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- We're pulling up to our castle hotel right now.
It looks like an actual, traditional castle.
And that's where we're staying.
- [GPS] You've reached your destination.
- We're inside the castle wall right now.
Look at this place,
I think we're going the wrong way actually.
Back to the castle.
I just thought it was cool
that these are the walls right here.
Where's the cannon balls?
This is like pre-cannon ball era.
They probably just threw black tar on people
and lit them on fire.
They still have the Medieval stop light right there.
Medieval chapel, our fancy hotel.
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Oh, this is it, here we are, 224.
Like a castle room, this is my bathroom apparently.
Yeah, that'll get me clean.
And here's my little door here.
No way, what is this?
This is my room tonight, welcome to my room.
I'm quite happy with it, can't beat the view.
Wish that Leslie was here, but hey, it is what it is.
I'm actually super tired and jet lagged
it's been a long day.
I'm going to go down to dinner, take you guys with,
see if there's something cool down there.
Thank you Mercedes, it's been a fun trip.
Alright we're back here, I'm afraid I may have left
my room open, that's my room right there.
- Dude someone can climb up that vine right there
below your window, sneak in at night.
- [Dan] They're going to be like Rapulzel
- [Zach] Let down your hair.
- That's it, tomorrow's going to be amazing.
I'm going to bed, this was a fun day.
I hope you enjoyed it, and we're going to drive
for six hours and get some cool stuff,
so get ready for that.
Hey, that guys just came out of the wall.
Did you see that?
What the heck, he just came out of the bookshelf.
That's pretty awesome.
Okay, France, you win, you're the coolest.