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2002 Mercedes-Benz E 500 Pre-production [W211]

2002 Mercedes-Benz E 500 [W211] in Men in Black II, Movie, 2002 IMDB

Class: Cars, Sedan — Model origin: DE

2002 Mercedes-Benz E 500 Pre-production [W211]

[*][*][*][*] Vehicle used a lot by a main character or for a long time

Comments about this vehicle

AuthorMessage

veeble fetzer US

2009-01-30 02:22

Old & busted
New hotness

G-MANN UK

2012-08-02 19:13

Badgeless rear (probably more than one car was used but no rear badging is ever seen):

[Image: meninblack2merc2.jpg]

Turns into a plane:

[Image: meninblack2merc3.jpg] [Image: meninblack2merc4.jpg] [Image: meninblack2merc5.jpg] [Image: meninblack2merc6.jpg]


I always wondered if it was correct for this to be listed as an E500 (no badge on the back) but I just did a search and found these two articles:

Link to "www.prnewswire.com"
http://vistagroupusa.com/these_cars_want_to_be_in_picture.htm

I suppose Mercedes would have wanted something a bit better than a bog standard 2 litre model featured in the film.

-- Last edit: 2019-06-12 18:39:48

jettalover US

2012-08-03 01:37

G-Mann's link say it's a '03.

G-MANN UK

2012-08-03 01:52

But this was filmed in late 2001.

jettalover US

2012-08-03 02:20

Good point G-Mann. So they were preproduction units, I guess you can call the movie units '02s. '03 was the 1st model year for North America.

george1998 US

2013-04-29 17:59

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Max_S DE

2013-11-09 22:53

jettalover wrote Good point G-Mann. So they were preproduction units, I guess you can call the movie units '02s. '03 was the 1st model year for North America.


In fact, it was the "ultimate preproduction".
Mercedes Build one car by hand, the new generation was supposed to premier in that movie.
Up to that point, no one was supposed to know how the new generation looks.
But, while filming on location in New York, the crew either failed to keep people off the set, or forgot to close a tent.
Either way, a tourist took photos of the car (at least the front), and sold them to a german car-magazine.
Mercedes became really mad, and tried to sue the producing company (unsucessfull).

To this day, that incident is called the "easiest shot" of a secret car in history.

Kowalski5599 CA

2021-03-14 14:42

Those Fords would outlast that Merc by a million years. I always felt this vehicle was miscast, it also never made sense that they only had one...

Gruszku PL

2022-08-05 14:11

Kowalski5599 wrote Those Fords would outlast that Merc by a million years. I always felt this vehicle was miscast, it also never made sense that they only had one...


In 2002, those were just some old Fords, and after the somewhat dull W210 E-class - this Mercedes was a new hotness indeed.

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