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VIDEO: Mercedes-Benz E-Class commercial features malfunctioning car

by Jonathon Ramsey (RSS feed) on Jul 13th, 2009 at 4:57PM

The voiceover for Mercedes' "Ignite" commercial for the new E-Class starts with "It is, quite simply, the most advanced automobile we have every created." However, during the start-up sequence before that voiceover, the actual commercial begins with a warning light: when the driver turns the car on, the message "Front Right SRS Malfunction Service Required" appears in the dash – not the type of message you expect to see when your car fires up and does its system check. Still, knowing how these things work, we suspect this commercial was probably filmed early on in a pre-production... Read More

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