http://www.snopes.com/photos/accident/smallcar.asp#photo

And now we know what it was....

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1995 E420 Schwarz
1995 E300 Weiss
#1987 300D Sturmmachine
#1991 300D Nearly Perfect
#1994 E320 Cabriolet
#1995 E320 Touring
#1985 300D Sedan
OBK #42

Good god. I hope noone was in that car...

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1989 300E 144K

I could have told you it wasn't a smart car... Smarts have 3 lugs and 3 lugs only... There is a very small number of cars out there with a 3 lug wheel.

Yeah, my wheelbarrow has more nuts per wheel than a Smart...

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'85 300TD "Puff The Magic Wagon" - Rolling Resto
'19 Mazda CX-9 Signature - Wife's sled
'21 Morgan 3-Wheeler P101 Edition
'95 E300d - SOLD
'84 300TD "Brown Betty" - Miss this one
'81 240D "China Baby" - Farm grocery getter

The driver was lucky to escape--the Ford Escape!

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RRGrassi


70's Southern Pacific #5608 Fairmont A-4 MOW car

13 VW JSW 2.0 TDI 193K, Tuned with DPF and EGR Delete.

91 W124 300D Turbo replaced, Pressure W/G actuator installed. 210K

90 Dodge D250 5.9 Cummins/5 speed. 400K

holy moly, it looks like a mythbusters experiment

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hum.....
1987 300TD 311,000M Stolen. Presumed destroyed

Rule number one; dont get in-between 2 trucks!!
air bags and traction control are no match for tons of high tensile steel chassis!
Not only wasnt it a smart car, it wasnt a smart driver either !!

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Grumpy Old Diesel Owners Club group

I no longer question authority, I annoy authority. More effect, less effort....

1967 230-6 auto parts car. rust bucket.
1980 300D now parts car 800k miles
1984 300D 500k miles
1987 250td 160k miles English import
2001 jeep turbo diesel 130k miles
1998 jeep tdi ~ followed me home. Needs a turbo.
1968 Ford F750 truck. 6-354 diesel conversion.
Other toys ~J.D.,Cat & GM ~ mainly earth moving

Completely true. If i'm on the highway and i'm not passing a truck....it's gridlock traffic. Under no circumstances will I drive anywhere near them. I drive in front of them at all times incase the worst happens (And they includes one of their tires blowing out)

Although that brings up another word of caution. A couple of years ago there was a horrific crash where a truck lost brakes and crashed into a packed intersection at the bottom of a mountain road. Any time i'm sitting at a light I always check to see what's coming up behind me, just in case. (Defensive driving lesson number 1, always try to leave yourself with an escape path)

"In July 2005, the driver of a truck lost control of his brakes and swerved to avoid traffic waiting in his lane at the stoplight. On the eastbound side of the road, the truck then collided with rush hour traffic waiting at the light. Four people, including the driver of the truck, perished in the crash.

In 2007, the driver of a truck lost control. The truck, traveling westbound on U.S. Route 44 at Route 10, crashed into the Nassau Furniture building at about 11 a.m., taking out a column that supports the roof of the building. Amazingly, no major injuries resulted from the crash."

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1982 300GD Carmine Red (DB3535) Cabriolet Parting Out
1990 300SEL Smoke Silver (Parting out)
1991 350SDL Blackberry Metallic (481)

"The thing is Bob, its not that I'm lazy...its that I just don't care."

Truth is...Regardless of what make of car it is/was...

I'm sure we could make a long list of cars that would have met the same fate in that situation. Including a few MBs.

I don't think that's a situation to use as an "economy car vs. non-economy car" ad.

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1980 300D - Veggie Burner !

I Think This Was Covered Before

There are a certain number (growing smaller each day) of drivers who assume everyone will stop automatically for them, or even can! They judge badly, or not at all, because they are driving whole talking on their cell phone.

Like gazelles who live near a large number of lions, their numbers grow smaller each day.

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Strelnik
Invest in America: Buy a Congressman!

1950 170SD
1951 Citroen 11BN
1953 Citroen 11BNF limo
1953 220a project
1959 180D
1960 190D
1960 Borgward Isabella TS 2dr
1983 240D daily driver
1983 380SL
1990 350SDL daily driver alt
3 x Citroen DS21M, down from 5
3 x Citroen 2CV, down from 6