W212 Crash Test Video

[KillerHERTZ]

W212 Crash Test Video + All the other E's crash tests

Possibly posted before but the search didnt bring up owt.

Its truely amazing how strong it is, check out the full roll test at the very end of the video, it looks just like my Matchbox cars I used to flip over! - not a scratch!

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And for reference, the W211:
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And the W210 (only ever so slightly more movement than the above):
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Getting slightly harder to watch:

And the W124 - Very nasty Headbutt of the steering wheel:
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And finally the W123
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[st4]

I'd love to see this frontal impact test carried out at 60mph..

You can see the big jump in safety is from 123 to 124. The 210 and 211 look not a massive leap in progress but the 212 looks immensely strong, even to the 211.

I am impressed by the lack of deformation the 124, just that with no air bag the headbut looks nasty

 

[The Boss]

I am impressed by the lack of deformation the 124, just that with no air bag the headbut looks nasty

yeah, not sure id ever want my head on that steering wheel..

im also impressed with the w123.. even in the early 70's the safety cell was impressive.

This video just reminded me of the reduction in the cycle life of cars, where technology today determines the cycle, along with fast paced trends etc etc..

the w123 and w124 had a very extenuating life cycle.. and i guess this goes for the w126.

great cars in their day, safety defo has gone up, but has it gone up in the right direction???

eg.. do we really need drivers assist and seat belt reminders constantly? or should we educate people better to be in a position, that we would put the seat belt on because we want to, opposed to having too to stop the darn bleeping!!?

 

[wemorgan]

I'd love to see this frontal impact test carried out at 60mph..

My finger is not so much on the pulse of future legislation these days, but I suspect higher speed tests would be possible. The structure of the car could be made to work but not enough is known about human injury tolerance levels, so it would be hard to calibrate the crash test dummies accordingly.

Even in a standard EuroNCAP frontal impact a 50g deceleration pulse is not untypical, so at 60mph it might even rise to 100g. Even a fit F1 driver with proper harness wouldn't want that.

 

[KillerHERTZ]

Exactly, a Smart car can handle a 70Mph front on crash and remain intact - the driver however, cannot handle that deceleration.