Diktatoren eben. Die wollen uns weiß machen, dass die "einer von uns" waren.
Ich sehe das war ja richtig bei den Diktatoren beliebt. ^^
Notable heads of state included
Park Chung-hee,
Josip Broz Tito,
Nicolae Ceauşescu,
Pol Pot,
Enver Hoxha,
Francois (Papa Doc) Duvalier,
Leonid Brezhnev,
Robert Mugabe,[SUP][
citation needed][/SUP]
Ferdinand Marcos (who owned four, including a Landaulet, a 1981 bulletproof and a six-door version.),[SUP]
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Kim Il-sung,
Kim Jong-Il also owned a landaulet (both seen in the 65th anniversary parade in Pyongyang on October 10, 2010), and
Sadaam Hussein, who owned a long roof landaulet that was recovered after the fall of Baghdad today owned by the Petersen Museum in Los Angeles.[SUP]
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Iranian Shah
Mohammad Reza Pahlavi and the royal court owned multiple 600 models.[SUP][
citation needed][/SUP] Former Chinese Foreign Minister
Chen Yi,
Deng Xiaoping, wife of the first Chinese Premier
Zhou Enlai -
Deng Yingchao, and the former King of Cambodia
Norodom Sihanouk, all used the 600.[SUP]
[7][/SUP] The first
Senegalese regime (1960–1980) under president
Leopold Sedar Senghor had three 600s, a short wheel base, a long wheel base, and a
Landaulet, later replaced by the
W126 based Carat
Limousine.[SUP][
citation needed][/SUP]
Religious leader
Guru Maharaj Ji owned one,[SUP][
citation needed][/SUP] as did
Colombian, drug dealer
Pablo Escobar, a LWB six door 600.[SUP][
citation needed][/SUP] destroyed in an attack on Escobar in 1988 in
Medellin.[SUP][
citation needed][/SUP]
In cinema the Mercedes 600 was featured in the
James Bond films, most notably as transport of the villain
Ernst Stavro Blofeld in
On Her Majesty's Secret Service and
Diamonds Are Forever. Kamal Khan is also seen leaving
Sotheby's in a 600 in
Octopussy. In television, a Mercedes Benz 600 limousine was used by fictional Channing/Gioberti family matriarch Angela Channing in the American television series
Falcon Crest. Images of the car driving from
San Francisco over the
Golden Gate Bridge to the Falcon Crest vineyard were featured in the opening credits of the first four seasons.