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From The Archives: Mercedes-Benz Vintage Crash Tests

by Gunnar Heinrich ::: YouTube ::: Mercedes-Benz Vintage Crash Tests Video

THEY just don’t break ‘em like they used to. We’re so easily amused/horrified/interested in watching stock footage of safety tests from days gone by. Typically, these old reels serve as testaments to how far we’ve come (or haven’t) in passive cell technology.

In Mercedes’ case, it’s been leaps and bounds. For comic value, watch a Benz engineer get hit in the face with an airbag @ 00:35.

Achtung! Video auf Deutsch.

Fat Cat Capsizing: BMW TV Brings Drama With 7er Crash Testing

By Gunnar Heinrich | IMG via YouTube

DRAMA. Intensity. Crumple zonage.

It never occurred to me that when I drove the ‘09 (F01) BMW 750Li, that there was the potential of high velocity impact. I didn’t want to really, such as it is a painful premise even in theory.

Of course accidents can happen and if/when they do it’s nice to know that the car maker’s got your back…along with everything else.

From this footage via BMW TV, the 7-Series driver and passengers would benefit from probably the best impact protection this side of a Mercedes S-Class. Notice how in an offset frontal, the roofline past the A-pillar doesn’t even appear to have a crease.

That long bonnet’s got the job covered, danke.