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1976-1985 Mercedes-Benz W123 (240D - NA Market) NHTSA Full-Overlap Frontal Crash Test
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- Опубликовано: 12 окт 2022
- A NHTSA Full-Overlap Frontal Crash Test at 35 Mph (56 Km/h). Both occupants are 50th percentile male Part 572 dummies restrained by three-point seatbelts. This MY1980 NHTSA New Car Assessment Program Full-Overlap Frontal Crash Test was performed on 07/19/1980 at Dynamic Science in Phoenix, Arizona.
Rating was based upon pre-2011 criteria. (1978-2010)
NHTSA Frontal Crash Test of the 1980 Mercedes-Benz 240D Diesel (W123).
FMVSS Indicant Compliance
FMVSS 208: Fail - HIC exceeds limits.
FMVSS 212: Pass.
FMVSS 219: Pass.
FMVSS 301: Fail - Fuel leakage exceeded allowable limits during the static rollover. (Total amount exceeded FMVSS 301 limits, 40% of leaked stoddard had drained into the rollover fixture. Actual amount unknown.)
Driver - Passenger
* * - * (Two Stars - One Star)
HIC 1262!! - 1368!! (!!Exceeds FMVSS 208 HIC15 requirement of 700)
Head G's 124 - 173
Chest G's 54 - 44
Femur Load (L/R - N) 2998/7513 - 2963/6446
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Back in the day...the only truly "safe" cars were...MB, Volvo and SAAB
Mercedes seems to be the only one I'm seeing in these old NHTSA tests that still has operable front doors however. All impressive cars though, the only ones you'll still see daily driven 40+ years on.
No mostly just MB.
That's incredibly impressive
Gosh those head impacts were very high and from the HIC measurement likely fatal, at only 35 mph!
I wonder whether inertia reel seat belts were a backwards step, would correctly fitting static seatbelts have prevented those kinds of HIC readings?
Kind of. You will get a slack in the reel because of all the belt winded up there. It was seen as an acceptable tradeoff because static belts usually were either adjusted too loose or hanging unused, which of course made them worse than an inertia reel belt that always have an acceptable adjustment. With pretensioning seatbelts (which the W123 got in 1985) that problem is more or less eliminated. It should also be said that according to insurance statistics from the 80s and 90s, the Mercedes W123 was one of the cars that had the least amount of head injuries so one single crashtest does not tell the whole truth either.
This model came out in 1976. In 1985 the next model came out.
This is something I’ve never understood. Why do the seatbelts let the bodies move forward. Don’t they lock immediately?
No pretension in the seatbelts, so they have some slack during the accident.
I like this car but newer edition
Its safe for me
1985 280E
1985 models had pretensioning seatbelts which made them safer.
Nah u don't know nothing about mercedes then. True Mercedes is 90s and earlier. Everything else is a watered down version of the early mercs
@@detonater1348 I agree, the 2000's and later Mercs have too much plastic and electronics for my liking. I don't want a throw away computer on wheels, I want a well built car that's designed to last a lifetime! The new ones are fine for people who have money to burn and trade their cars in every few years, but they are way too disposable for me.
Pure Garbage Cars, Now. I’ll take a 70’s to 80’s Diesel.
Probably still safer than most new cars in the road today
This MB was very good for it's time, but no. It's not safer than modern cars.
I don't know about that, but I would bet it's probably as safe as you can get without airbags. Unfortunately they never rolled them out for the North American models.
@@Reminisciences Problem is that this would crumble much worse in the modern 40 mph moderate overlap front test. Way more demanding test than in the video.
How does this fair compared to a newer sedan? My friend said her new Corolla would be safer, and I think the w123 would absolutely destroy a newer car.
A reasonably modern Corolla would definitely be safer. The W123 was designed in the early 70's and didn't even get standard rear seat belts, airbags, seatbelt pretensioners, a collapsing steering column, etc. Safety has advanced exponentially thanks to modern computer aided design and simulations, technology, much stricter safety regulations, etc. But give me a choice between the new Corolla and this 240D and I'll take the 240D without a second thought😎
The W123 definitively had a collapsing steering column, though. Seatbelts in the rear standard in most markets but not all, seatbelt pretensioners from 1985 on, airbag optional from 1981 on, so there you are right that not all cars had them.
A w124 is safer than w123, a w210 is safer than a w124, a w211 is safer than w210. Get it?
What a waste