A few months ago I bought the "Fascination: The History of the
Mercedes-Benz Brand" 2-DVD set that the trailer promotes. The trailer
is WAY more interesting than most of the actual product. They use a
lot of company and ad footage, but the commentary totally misses the
boat. It could have been done SO MUCH BETTER and that's really
frustrating. No interviews, no details. Just a lot of stock with a
vague narrative. Some of the German reviews of this have been so
glowing that they can only have been written by employees of the
production company.
On the other hand, as an assembly of MB stock footage it's not bad if
you can get past the fact that they re-use a LOT of clips, and that
there are some factual errors resulting from the English translation.
But here's the kicker. The DVD is available ONLY from the Classic
Centre in Germany. Even German dealers can't order it; this was
confirmed by calling the Classic Centre in Germany directly. The DVD
itself was 30 Euros, plus 6.50 shipping INSIDE EUROPE. If you have it
sent to the US or Canada, the SHIPPING ALONE is another 60 Euros! The
order number for the NTSC version is B66046424.
I would say it's worth $30 (I had it sent to a German address), but
I'd have been VERY irritated if I'd paid $100 for it. It's not nearly
good enough to warrant that price.
It MAY be possible to get it from the new US Classic Centre in
California. I know that MB Canada and MB USA don't have it and cannot
get it through the parts channel.
D.
At 12:00 PM +0000 12/3/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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Date: Sat, 3 Dec 2005 22:24:40 +1030
From: "Hendrik Riessen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: [MBZ] Another video, this time with pontoon and /8
To: "Mercedes mailing list" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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http://www.karocom.de/TRAILERII.wmv
A fella from the ozvets forum posted this, enjoy.
Hendrik
