grober
MB Master
Béla Barényi who sounds like a character out of a Philip Pullman novel is arguably the technical genius responsible for Mercedes' success post WW2.
He invented the crumple zone and passenger safety cell among many other things.
AutoSpeed - The crumple zone man
Mercedes-Benz Classic: 23 January 1951: the passenger safety cell is patented | marsMediaSite[/B]
