Top sedan from Mercedes-Benz most popular in films - "Bad guys often drive S-Class"

Created: 08/16/2022, 16:03

By: Julian Baumann

An S-Class from Mercedes-Benz also appears in the film "The Peacemaker" (1997).

But there is no happy ending for the sedan (archive image).

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The S-Class from Mercedes-Benz is not only the flagship of the group, but also extremely popular in films, according to an evaluation.

Stuttgart - Street races, police chases, or just to put an important person in the limelight: cars are an integral part of films, although there are certain models that are more often used for an appearance on screen.

The comparison

has researched in the well-known film databases IMDB and IMCDB and found out that a sedan is driven very often in films: the S-Class from Mercedes-Benz.

With the S-Class, the Stuttgart-based car company Mercedes-Benz has been producing luxury luxury saloons and coupés for twelve vehicle generations.

The electric flagship EQS is also referred to as the S class among electric cars.

shows that the limousine with the three-pointed star is also particularly popular in films in various variants.

After the S-Class, it was used 758 times in all the films in the databases mentioned.

The BMW five-series follows in second place, but the legendary Porsche 911 is also very popular on screen, as BW24 reports.

Mercedes-Benz: Is the S-Class mainly driven by villains in films?

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a few years ago, a user asked for examples of films featuring the Mercedes-Benz S-Class.

In response, users named films like “James Bond – Tomorrow Never Dies”, “Die Hard 3” or “The Interpreter”.

A user of the forum put forward a thesis on this.

"What I find interesting is that in James Bond films, mostly the villains drive Mercedes and often S-Class," he wrote.

A recent film example would also support this thesis.

In 2019's "John Wick: Chapter 3," the "Judge" character, arguably the film's villain, is chauffeured in a black S-Class.

Most used German car models in international films:

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It is possible that the S-Class from Mercedes-Benz is only used so much in films because the luxury sedan with the star stands for German engineering like hardly any other car model.

A Mercedes model was in high demand even with real-life villains.

The Mercedes 600 was very popular with dictators.

However, the list by

shown above shows that the Mercedes-Benz brand as a whole is particularly common in films.

After the BMW 5 Series and 3 Series, the Porsche 911 and the BMW 7 Series comes the Mercedes E Class.

This upper mid-range sedan also had an electric counterpart in the form of the Mercedes EQE.

Car brands in films: US manufacturers Ford and General Motors in front - Mercedes in third place

According to

's ranking , no other model is used in international films as often as the Mercedes-Benz S-Class.

In the evaluation of all cars of a brand, the Stuttgart even took third place, the VW group fifth and BMW eighth place.

Taken together, however, models from the US manufacturer Ford are used most frequently in films, followed by models from the Chevrolet brand, which belongs to the US group General Motors.

Since the film industry revolves mainly around Hollywood, this fact is hardly surprising.

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Although the evaluation shows that German car models from Mercedes-Benz, BMW, Porsche and Co. are very popular in films, German makes are now appearing more and more frequently in other media as well.

In the video game Cyberpunk 2077, for example, a Porsche 911 drives through a virtual city and before the world premiere of the super sports car Mercedes-AMG One, players could already drive the strictly limited model from Mercedes-Benz in the video game Forza Horizon 5.