I could see this coming based on the POS W220. I was talking to a fellow as we were scavenging a 560SEL. We agreed that the new cars are junk and that we do not trust self driving cars.
The yard had a bunch of Mercedes Bents. Really creased and bent. Many of them are not all that busted though, just had the dang hair bags deploy, which totaled them. clay > On May 9, 2017, at 9:07 AM, Dan Penoff via Mercedes <mercedes@okiebenz.com> > wrote: > > Did you see that link to the Jalopnik article on the cost to repair newer > cars' safety systems, and how it was causing a lot of them to be totaled even > after a minor accident as a result? > > Mass is always going to be on your side. If you’re in a Prius and you go up > against a soccer mom in an SUV, you’re going to lose no matter what. > > That’s one thing I don’t worry about with my cars. With the exception of > maybe the SL500, they’re all big and substantial enough that short of a semi > or locomotive, they’ll most likely come out of it OK. And if the car is > totaled, so be it. It will have served its purpose. > > -D > > > >> On May 9, 2017, at 11:56 AM, Randy Bennell via Mercedes >> <mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: >> >> Anyone have any good suggestions on researching auto safety records? >> >> I have been looking online but it seems to be more difficult than it ought >> to be. I keep coming up with information on new vehicles but little on used >> ones. >> >> The powers that be want me to believe that a tiny new car is safer than a >> larger old car because it has some new fangled electronic doodads that might >> prevent me from wandering into an oncoming lane etc. >> >> I am really more interested in something that will provide superior >> protection if some texting driver happens to run into me when I do not have >> time or space to dodge out of the way. >> >> I know you folks think that the older MB's are wonderful cars when it comes >> to safety but I am curious as to how they and others compare. >> >> For example, I always thought that the Ford Crown Victoria should be >> reasonably safe as it is a larger car etc but apparently the fuel tank is in >> a bad spot and serious rear end collisions are bad news with them. I assume >> it would be similar for the Lincolns which were built on the same chassis. >> >> I have no interest in buying a new car but I am interested in finding a >> larger used car. I have been driving the Honda Civic that I acquired from my >> mother and it is a nice little car but a bit too little for my tastes. It >> gets good fuel mileage but I do not want to be in it if it gets hit by >> something bigger. >> >> RB >> >> >> _______________________________________ >> http://www.okiebenz.com >> >> To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ >> >> To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: >> http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com >> >> > > > _______________________________________ > http://www.okiebenz.com > > To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com > _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
