Factory Armoured S600 anyone?

[TheFoX]

It's ironic that cars today have to be manufactured with crumple zones for safety, yet here is a car that won't have crumple zones making it far more sturdy. How do they get past the manufacturing laws that govern car design?

Imagine being in a low speed collision, and not suffering a single dent. Or imagine a higher speed collision and causing more serious damage to the other vehicle because yours doesn't have crumple zones.

 

[John N]

It's ironic that cars today have to be manufactured with crumple zones for safety, yet here is a car that won't have crumple zones making it far more sturdy. How do they get past the manufacturing laws that govern car design?

Imagine being in a low speed collision, and not suffering a single dent. Or imagine a higher speed collision and causing more serious damage to the other vehicle because yours doesn't have crumple zones.

Well spotted, I and I suspect most it not all forum members were looking at the Armoured S600 with either derision or interest in the engineering involved, your observation puts thing on a different plane.

Think of all the accidents or driving offences published that mention the car being used or abused in the wrong hands as a "Dangerous Weapon"

 

[Doodle]

It's ironic that cars today have to be manufactured with crumple zones for safety, yet here is a car that won't have crumple zones making it far more sturdy. How do they get past the manufacturing laws that govern car design?

Imagine being in a low speed collision, and not suffering a single dent. Or imagine a higher speed collision and causing more serious damage to the other vehicle because yours doesn't have crumple zones.

Armouring doesn't quite work like that. The primary aim is the survivability of the interior space so the armour is mainly concentrated on the passenger cell; as a result it's the side impact that is most affected by the works done. There's a certain amount of protection to the drivetrain and engine bay to ensure limited mobility after an attack, but it will still crumple to an extent in an front/rear impact.

You can't break the laws of physics though - you're still looking at twice the weight and therefore twice the kinetic energy.

 

[IanGarland]

Standard spec soon for anybody in a major city

 

[leef44]

I wonder whom the previous owner might be??
""Guard model Mercedes are the auto-manufacturer's factory armoured vehicles that are designed and built to the highest levels of European protection standards. The B7 level protection on this Mercedes S600 provides resistance against grenades, explosive charges and very high-velocity projectiles up to and including AK47 rounds.""
Who would need all this stuff???

Not all divorces end up amicably

 

[WDB124066]

It's ironic that cars today have to be manufactured with crumple zones for safety, yet here is a car that won't have crumple zones making it far more sturdy. How do they get past the manufacturing laws that govern car design?

Imagine being in a low speed collision, and not suffering a single dent. Or imagine a higher speed collision and causing more serious damage to the other vehicle because yours doesn't have crumple zones.

Maybe the same as for trucks - given the very low volumes...?

 

[TheFoX]

Maybe the same as for trucks - given the very low volumes...?

But to drive a truck or bus, you need a different license which entails far more training, supposedly making you a safer driver. I doubt that there is a law or extended license requirement to drive an armoured car.

 

[holbay]

Well i live in Glasgow so that would be the very tool for me, i mean people here put flack jackets on their dogs when they take them for a walk. lol

 

[MikeInWimbledon]

If money is truly no object, then why not? If money really really is no object, then personal safety (security) is probably high on your list of priorities.

Weight, dear boy. As SUV's prove every day, the more you load up on the Carbs, the more you lose the chiselled whippet.

 

[MancMike]

Ant! Pops is on the loose!

 

[gr1nch]

Interesting car. I'd read about them somewhere else, I think on a Mercedes website somewhere. I've been driven in someone else's car abroad that had heavy security inside, but was not armoured at all, since their concern was kidnapping, rather than pure assault. They valued mobility and ordinairiness, which an S600 won't necessarily give you!

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