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Originally Posted by Hatterasguy
Well it isn't as simple as a bigger car is safer. For example your 04 Toyota is much safer than your 300D. I would take the Toyota any day of the week but that is not a fair comparison because Toyota had 20 years on the 300D to improve things.
Wow that sounds like a horrible crash, who passes on a blind hill? 
Anyway size does help to a point. Say a W220 whacks a W210 well than yes the people in the W220 are better off. It also depends on the accident. Some are just so bad nothing will help you. Rember pics of the S280 in Princess Diana's (sp?) crash. That was an W140!  |
Very true. Also, I saw pics and videos from a website a long time ago that showed the current E-class withstanding crashes better than the current S-Class. Of course, both of them earned 5 stars all around, but the E-Class apparently has a better body structure for safeguarding the passenger safety cage. Well, the current S-Class was released in 1999, which the current E-Class was released in 2002. It shows that in those few years in between, M-B safety engineers learned and discovered enough to make the E-Class, which on average weighs 400lbs less than the S-Class, better at crashes.