What's Wrong With This Picture?

[Pawel66]

I found it on Facebook (lost the post now), not from any Mercedes related groups, saying: Mercedes Stuttgart factory from the 90ies, 90ies were the best years of Mercedes. Fine, but: it is not 90ies, not Stuttgart factory (I think) and 90ies were probably not the best Mercedes years (particularly end of 90ies).

What is wrong with this picture with 230SL or early 250SL placed there a bit out of context, in front of some car wreck (?) and followed by a car that pretends to be a Pagoda. Poor AI job?

Or I see it wrong?

[Cees Klumper]

What I find suspicious (besides that the photo is obviously altered):
- the lady looks out of place somehow on that assembly line
- there is an arm around her waist that also seems out of place
- the car in the front has what look to be US headlights but no sidemarkers or bumper overriders

[Pawel66]

I thought it was her own arm, wrapped around the back, holding her left arm.... but yes, could be it is somebody else's.

Anyway - poor work on the picture.

[JamesL]

Nobody is actually touching a car, or part.
The sandwiched wreck of Smart car between car 1 and 2 is a bit weird
Why is what looks like a hood from a sedan poking up randomly and off centre
Differnt sides of the tracks the folk look very different - T shirts vs shirts
Back down the track it, it looks like sedans being put together (by the A pillar)

yep
That's genuine

[yves]

And the headlamp of the second pagode seems weird…

[Pawel66]

Ok, so it is not just me. It is official then: picture fabricated by drunk AI.

[zoegrlh]

Also, workers at the plant wore MB coveralls, as they still do. I got a set of those coveralls from a friend at the MB plant, back in the 80s. It’s a German thing that blue collar workers in whatever field they are in wear coveralls.

[MikeSimon]

Maybe I am looking at this wrong, but the "Pagoda" roof doesn't look like a Pagoda roof at all.

[Pawel66]

No, it does not indeed! Also window is strange...

[john.mancini]

Just hoping that my SL wasn’t built on that day.

[Bonnyboy]

Weren't the Pagodas built in the Sindelfingen Plant. That is a different plant with a low ceiling.