Although it may not look like it, what you see here is the first popemobile in history. Before that, the faithful would see the Pope in the Silla Gestatoria, carried on the shoulders of the faithful.
But in 1930, Mercedes-Benz changed the game: Pope Pius XI received a N\u00fcrburg 460, a luxury limousine that marked the beginning of a relationship between the German automaker and the Vatican that extends all the way to Pope Leo XIV.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
POPE LEO XIV<\/strong> And that wasn't exactly a run-of-the-mill car. Under the hood: an eight-cylinder engine, 80 horsepower, and a top speed of 110 kilometers per hour. In 1980, the German automaker took a decisive step. For John Paul II\u2019s trip to Germany, it prepared a G-Class with a raised seat and a transparent dome. Well we take the best people, we take a specific model which is the base model and then from there we strip it off and we create an individual one of a kind vehicle which has a lot of visible. kind of specials, but also a lot of invisible, which nobody can see, but only the Vatican people and we know about.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Although it may not look like it, what you see here is the first popemobile in history. Before that, the faithful would see the Pope in the Silla Gestatoria, carried on the shoulders of the faithful. But in 1930, Mercedes-Benz changed the game: Pope Pius XI received a N\u00fcrburg 460, a luxury limousine that marked […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":758,"featured_media":96031,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"acf":{"video":"https:\/\/youtu.be\/E5nxJ8KLPb0","video_descarga":"https:\/\/attuale.romereports.com\/news\/bpapamobilimercedeseng.mp4","international_url":"https:\/\/attuale.romereports.com\/news\/bpapamobilimercedesint.mp4","type":"bn","newsletter":"si"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96053"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/758"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=96053"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96053\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":96056,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96053\/revisions\/96056"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/96031"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=96053"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=96053"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=96053"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
Over the decades, the Popemobile has evolved from a means of transportation into an instrument of encounter. enabling the pontiff to draw closer to the faithful during pastoral visits and public celebrations.In this way, your work has helped facilitate the Church's mission.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n
For its time, that was quite the engine. The leap is also evident when we look back: from the six horses that pulled carriages to more than 80 under the hood. The mechanics changed, but so did the way the Pope connected with the people.
The starting point is the exhibition \u201cA Century of Popemobiles,\u201d which brings together eight historic Mercedes vehicles at the Vatican Museums.
MARCUS BREITSCHWERDT<\/strong>
CEO, Mercedes-Benz Heritage
To have a well-trusted relationship to any customer is most important. To have a well-trusted partnership to the Vatican and to the Holy Father is the best which can happen in the world. For us, it's also a huge obligation. So we have to really give the best and this since roughly 100 years. So 100 years of partnership between Mercedes-Benz as a provider of mobility for the popes and also the trust we get from the Vatican.<\/em>
In the 1960s, the formula remained that of a large luxury sedan. Mercedes produced models such as the 300 and 600, the latter of which was given to Pope Paul VI, whose roof could be opened at the rear, right where the main passenger sits.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The pope was able to greet people from a visible position, even among thousands of people.
Later, the assassination attempt on Pope John Paul II in St. Peter\u2019s Square changed security priorities forever.
But how is a popemobile made? Does the pope choose the extras, or does it come standard?
MARCUS BREITSCHWERDT<\/strong>
CEO, Mercedes-Benz Heritage
Well we take the best people, we take a specific model which is the base model and then from there we strip it off and we create an individual one of a kind vehicle which has a lot of visible. kind of specials, but also a lot of invisible, which nobody can see, but only the Vatican people and we know about.<\/em>
The Popemobile has changed its engine, design, body, and even the passenger on board, but its purpose to facilitate encounters while keeping the gas pedal light has never changed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n