This Old Mercedes Sounds Like A V12 F1 Car!

The Stig’s secret subterranean lair is the perfect place to make a lot of noise with a lot of noisy cars. Welcome to Top Gear Tunnel Run. In the fifth episode of our series, our tame racing driver welcomes the Mercedes S600 limo… Wait, what?! Fear not, because while the W140-era Merc S-class is famously quiet (it even had double-glazed windows, so you could hear a pin drop in the cabin) it also had the same V12 that powered the original Pagani Zonda. And thanks to a trick exhaust, this one sounds like an old Formula One car. Join The Stig, and host Becky Evans, to hear just what an oh-so-special exhaust can do to an old Merc limo… Top Gear Tunnel Run is sponsored by the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority Car: Mercedes S600 Engine: 6.0-litre n/a V12 Power: 439bhp Price: £60,000 Top speed: 155mph Noise: 129.6dB Subscribe to Top Gear for more videos: http://bit.ly/SubscribeToTopGear WATCH MORE TOP GEAR: First Looks: https://bit.ly/TGFirstLooks  First Drives: https://bit.ly/TGFirstDrives American Tuned ft. Rob Dahm: https://bit.ly/TGAmericanTuned LISTEN to the Top Gear Magazine Podcast: https://topgear.podlink.to/Podcast Sign up for our newsletter: https://www.topgear.com/newsletter-signup Chapters: 00:00 Intro 02:24 Sasaki-san 03:30 Walkaround 04:49 Tunnel Run 05:28 Launch 07:02 360 Sound MORE ABOUT TOP GEAR: Welcome to the official home of Top Gear on YouTube. Here you'll find all the best clips from your favourite episodes, whether that’s Ken Block drifting London in the Hoonicorn, Chris Harris in the latest Porsche 911 GT3 or classic Top Gear clips from Clarkson, Hammond and May. You'll also find the latest performance car reviews from the TopGear.com crew, our brand new series American Tuned with Rob Dahm and the fastest power laps from our in house performance benchmark: The Stig. This is a commercial channel from BBC Studios. Service & Feedback https://www.bbcstudios.com/contact/contact-us/

Added 18 May 2026